My AP Seminar students are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who take this course as an elective. The course is for students who want to learn more about issues facing our world today and learn the skills to research these issues and pose solutions. While our rural school serves students who live in a predominantly low socioeconomic community (100% of our students receive free breakfast and lunch.), the standards and commitment of our community is high. This is a community that supports its students, teachers, and schools. Even with limited resources, I'm amazed what our community can do when it pulls together to help its members.
My students are inquisitive and want to learn the skills necessary to affect positive change in the world around them.
My Project
This book will help students understand the American criminal justice system and other social systems/policies and constructs that affect our black citizens.
The book will be used as a springboard for a researched argumentative project in which student teams choose a policy/program at the local, state, or federal level, investigate how it may create or sustain systemic racism, and propose solutions fix the issue.
Finally, the teams will present their solutions to the class.
At the same time, this beautifully-written book will also be used as a mentor text to show students good writing. I will be using the book to show examples of sentence structure, transitions, argument, imagery, and rhetorical choices.
When my class is finished with the books and the projects, I will loan the books to other ELA and Social Studies teachers who may want to use the book within their curriculum. I will also use these books for the next few year in my courses, so your donation to help purchase these books will not just benefit 25 students. Your gift has the potential to reach even more students at our high school.
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