ABSTRACT
Language arts case study opportunities are endless. Anything that involves writing is a good candidate for a case. The Business Professionals of America presents a case each year that challenges students to look at an existing website and develop a better and more user-friendly version of the site. Teachers would also have the advantage of bringing in technology, and students could actually create a working website. This chapter presents a case that takes the unfinished story of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, written by Charles Dickens and partially published in 1870, and asks students to complete it. This is a case for a higher grade level and would be ideal for British Literature classes. Students would have to use information from the story and real-world laws and legal precedents to construct their case. Depending on the level and ages of the students, teachers might just have them write a short ending that seems logical and fits with Dickens’s writing style.
