Sociology, Deviance, and Criminal Justice: Student Book Clubs
Help me give my students books that align to my students' inquiry questions
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Prager's classroom raised $599
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My Project
In my Early College Experience Sociology Class, students frequently tell me that this unit: Deviance and Criminal Justice, is their favorite. They've also specifically requested a diversification of texts that respond to specific questions about the way that the Criminal Justice System impacts particular groups. I've designed this book club project with their interests and questions in mind: exploring the Criminal Justice System's impact on vulnerable populations that my students have identified. We'll begin this unit with selections from The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, and then, students will be grouped to explore their interests.
Running book clubs will allow students to explore their own questions about the criminal justice system, rather than focus on questions that I've assigned.
Book clubs will also help my students practice collaboration with similarly-interested peers: a skill they will need to develop in college and beyond.
In a college setting, students would buy these books for themselves as part of a required book list for the course. My students are college students--earning credit from the University of Connecticut for a 100-level humanities class. Dual enrollment coursework does not always come with the resources that a college campus provides. Funding this project would allow my students access to new information, ideas, and scholarship: exactly what college is all about.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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