Broken April Lesson Plan

Presentations: The Kanun

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will increase their understanding of the legal and social ideas presented in the text.

Common Core Standards:

N/A

Structure:

For this exercise, the teacher should split the class into groups, with each creating a slideshow presentation about the history of one of the following aspects of the northern Albanian Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini:

1. Marriage

2. Property

3. Honour

4. Crimes (incl. blood feuds)

Each student group will be tasked with researching their assigned topic and explaining how each of aspects of human life are represented and legislated in the Kanun. Student slideshows needn't be...