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Both of the books I am requesting focus on people the same age as my students. The novel, The Outsiders, is a classic novel that helps my students relate to life experiences beyond what our rural, homogeneous community could provide. Lessons include having students discuss and evaluate the ways we feel like outsiders in our own lives, what steps we can take to rectify this, and how to be more aware of how we make others feel that way, as well. The non-fiction book, No Choirboy, focuses on people who were sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were teenagers. Lessons here include a deep examination of our judgments as well as a closer study of our criminal justice system and the biases inherent in that system. Teaching diversity is a very tricky thing because the lessons must be simultaneously engaging, accurate and safe; however, making things relateable when the student has no life experience to relate to requires providing access to those experiences through others. That's what these sources provide.

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Both of the books I am requesting focus on people the same age as my students. The novel, The Outsiders, is a classic novel that helps my students relate to life experiences beyond what our rural, homogeneous community could provide. Lessons include having students discuss and evaluate the ways we feel like outsiders in our own lives, what steps we can take to rectify this, and how to be more aware of how we make others feel that way, as well. The non-fiction book, No Choirboy, focuses on people who were sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were teenagers. Lessons here include a deep examination of our judgments as well as a closer study of our criminal justice system and the biases inherent in that system. Teaching diversity is a very tricky thing because the lessons must be simultaneously engaging, accurate and safe; however, making things relateable when the student has no life experience to relate to requires providing access to those experiences through others. That's what these sources provide.

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