How many of us remember learning about the Scopes Trail in our social studies class It was one of the most controversial trials. Genres: Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult. |a Dayton (Tenn.) |x History |y 20th century |v Fiction. Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial. |a Community life |z Tennessee |v Fiction. |a Evolution |x Study and teaching |x Law and legislation |v Fiction. |a Evolution (Biology) |x Study and teaching |x Law and legislation |z Tennessee |v Juvenile fiction. The year is 1925, and the students of Dayton, Tennessee, are ready for a summer of fishing, swimming, some working, and drinking root beer floats at Robinson’s Drugstore. |a Scopes, John Thomas |v Trials, litigation, etc.

|a Visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe, in a series of free-verse poems, the Scopes 'monkey trial' and its effects on that small town and its citizens. |a Includes bibliographical references (p. The year is 1925, and the students of Dayton, Tennessee, are ready for a summer of fishing, swimming, and drinking root beer floats at Robinson’s Drugstore. |a Ringside, 1925 : |b views from the Scopes trial : a novel / |c Jen Bryant. Take a ringside seat at one of the most controversial trials in American history. Ages 12-up.|a DLC |c DLC |d IG# |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d JP3 |d ABG |d EHH |d YDXCP |d JRS The colorful facts she retrieves, the personal story lines and the deft rhythm of the narrative are more than enough invitation to readers to ponder the issues she raises. Nor does she go out of her way to emphasize the timeliness of the topic. Take a ringside seat at one of the most controversial trials in American history. Bryant obviously sympathizes with Darrow and the Darwinists, but she doesn't heavily stack the deck: the eloquent insights she attributes to her characters are evenly distributed. Adventure-seeking kids, skeptical journalists, erudite scientists, curious townsfolk and one shrill evangelical all have their say on the ensuing battle between silver-tongued prosecutor William Jennings Bryan and sharp-witted defense lawyer Clarence Darrow. Scopes, to arrest him for violating the Butler Act, which bans the teaching of evolution. Overheard near a drugstore soda fountain, scheming business owners and a publicity-chasing superintendent get permission from a popular teacher, J.T. Why not break the law and bring in some tourists? Conjuring fictionalized inhabitants of crumbling Dayton, Tenn., home of the infamous Scopes 'monkey trial,' Bryant (The Trial) lets her characters speak directly, in well-honed verse that illuminates a broad range of perspectives.

Ringside, 1925 by Jen Bryant