Wathena High School
Unit: Contract Law
Course: Personal Finance and Law
Length of Unit : 3 1/2 to 5 weeks depending on time spent on projects Textbook: Law for Business South-Western Publishing Company, 1993.
Method of Teaching: Lecture and projects mostly. Will lecture over major points of contract law from chapters 10 through 15 in textbook.
Lecture Topics:
Capacity: definition and examples
Offer and Acceptance: Requirements, acceptable methods of communication, how to end offer
Consideration: definition, exceptions of charitable contributions and promissory estoppel
Illegal Contracts
Fraud: elements of, rights of defrauded party
Duress. Undue Influence
Minors: disaffirm contracts when, necessaries
Express/Implied Contracts
Statute of Frauds: definition, contracts subject to
Parol Evidence Rule
Interpretation of Written Contract
Breach of Contract: remedies, damages
Will discuss questions and cases at end of chapters as instructor determines.
Projects to be incorporated into this unit:
1. Use Internet to find related court cases. Must contain point of law covered in class. Students will write brief summary of case.
2.Write a simple contract. Students will be allowed to choose subject for contract within reasonable limits. Check mainly to see that all elements are included, and form is correct.
Create a newspaper in Microsoft Word. All articles, editorials, etc. should relate to contract law. This is a group project. Will probably have 3 or 4 per group depending on time factor. There are two specific reasons to do this project. First, it will be an indicator of how well students took notes. Secondly, the students will be allowed to use their newspaper on the individual test over the unit.
Projects I and 3 incorporate technology into the lesson.
