Using "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a Conduit for Teaching about the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Autor/in	Maher, Steffany Comfort
Titel	Using "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a Conduit for Teaching about the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Quelle	In: English Journal, 102 (2013) 4, S.45-52 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-8274
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Novels; Correctional Institutions; Institutionalized Persons; At Risk Students; High School Students; Social Problems; Criminal Law; Consciousness Raising; Cultural Relevance; Social Bias; Racial Bias; Minority Groups; Poverty; One Parent Family; Language Arts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Novel; Roman; Jugendstrafvollzug; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Strafrecht; Bewusstseinsbildung; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Ethnische Minderheit; Armut; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Sprachkultur
Abstract	The author primarily teaches traditional high school English texts in a largely white, middle-class school, but the method she uses allows her to address important issues relevant to students. One unit she teaches is an investigation of the criminal justice system and a variety of issues related to the school-to-prison pipeline. A crucial text that she uses to teach this is "To Kill a Mockingbird." Her goal is to have students relate to issues inherent in the text on a deep and personal level. She wants these relatively privileged young people to become more socially, historically, and culturally aware. To fully explore the school-to-prison pipeline dilemma, the author divides the text into four relevant cultural studies issues, each of which speaks to this crisis in its own way: single parent homes, lynching and racial discrimination, the criminal justice system, and poverty. She also teaches the novel in conjunction with a range of print and visual texts, which add to the richness of the project. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Council of Teachers of English. 1111 West Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Tel: 877-369-6283; Tel: 217-328-3870; Web site: http://www.ncte.org/journals
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10