Jodi+Kiplinger

= = Are we tracking our nation's youth from school to prison?

Overview:
More and more youth are being incarcerated today following detention or expulsion from school. This unit serves to inform students about the “school to jailhouse track.” Students will examine problems within their school discipline policies and inequalities in __#|education__ and their community. Broader topics will be discussed such the history of race relations in the United States, poverty, government, violence and prison.

The curriculum in this unit is designed for a 9th grade __#|English course__. The goal is to motivate students to become __#|active__ members of their communities and build a new human rights movement.This materials listed in this course are meant to expand a nine week curriculum. With the elimination of one of the novels and other course materials listed the course could be taught over a six week period. Ideally this course will span a nine week period in conjunction across the curriculum with the teaching of post Civil War in a U. S. History course and Social Sciences study of society; education and religion, race and ethnicity, socialization, culture norms, etc.

=**Objectives:**=
 * To empower diverse communities to take leadership and address issues faced by youth impacted by the __#|juvenile justice__ system.
 * To develop community-based means of accountability for violence and crime – using a transformative social justice approach.
 * To end the criminalization and incarceration of youth

Learning Goals:

 * Students will learn the influences that cultural values have on __#|behavior__ and choices
 * Students will become aware of his or her own values and biases
 * Accept people whose lifestyles are different from his or her own
 * Be responsive to the sources of conflict between culturally different populations
 * Understand the relationship of cultural experience to social justice

Common Core Standards addressed and surpassed in this unit:
 * Students examine their own school policies regarding disciplinary actions
 * Interview someone they know that is/or has been incarcerated
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Reflect and write about interview
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Students critically analyze reading and film and write literary analysis'
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Design a survey
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Petition students/community
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Write letters to school administration and community organizers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Students create a multi-genre website, propaganda and much more
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Students write an I-search paper on a topic of their choice

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Main Coursework **
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">and online discussion || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">20% || = = = = =__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Reading **__=
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Attendance, class participation,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Interview reflection || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">10% ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Narrative/Memoir || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">10% ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Literary Analysis || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">20% ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">I-Search Paper || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">20% ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Solutions Project || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">20% ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Chesterton, G. K. “The Fallacy of Success.” [|http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/success.html]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">DuBois, W.E.B. “The Souls of Black Folk.” (Chapter I, 1903)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Ellison, Ralph. //Invisible Man//. (Random House, 1952)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Ferguson, Ann Arnett. //Bad Boys//. (2000)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Haley, Alex. //The Autobiography of Malcolm X// (1965)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Hand, Learned. “I Am an American Day Address.” (1944)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">King, Martin Luther Jr. “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” (1967), and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Morrison, Toni. //Recitatif//. (1995)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Wiesel, Elie. “Hope, Despair and Memory” []

=__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Poetry and Prose __= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Baca, Jimmy Santiago.“Immigrants in Our Own Land.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Beaty, Daniel. “Knock, Knock.”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Hughes, Langston. “Ku Klux,” “Harlem,” “Poet to Bigot,” “The Backlash Blues,” and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> “On Racial Shame and Pride.” (1926-1967)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Justice, Donald. “Order in the Streets.” (1969)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Morales, Aurora Levins. “Child of the Americas.” (1986)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Sheaf: Carved on the Walls—Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants. From “The Detainment,” #30, and #31. From “The Weak Shall Conquer,” #35, #38, and #42.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Williams, William Carlos. “Spring and All,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “The Poor.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">(1923,1938)

=__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Film and Other Media __=

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Adichie, Chimamanda. “[|The danger of a single story.” Video on TED.com] []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">//Boys n the Hood//. Dir. John Singleton. Perf. [|Cuba Gooding Jr.], [|Laurence Fishburne], [|Hudhail Al-Amir] (1991)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">"Fires in the Mirror". []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">"Maestra". Katerine Murphy documentary. []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">//No Place For Kids//. Documentary. Available on Vimeo. Web. June 2012 []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">//Prison Culture//: How the PIC Structures Our World. “When Irish Children Were Criminals,” Web. June 2012. “[|Four Year Old Burglars: The Historical Criminalization of Black Children].” Web. April 2012 []

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">//Slam//. Dir. Marc Levin. Perf, Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone, Lawrence Wilson (1999)

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Week 1 = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Monday: Overview of Syllabus, Introduction to unit and online discussion [] =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">The School to Prison Pipeline = media type="youtube" key="GUgr4iQDmB8" height="360" width="480" align="center"



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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Tuesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 1) Read Bad Boys chapters 1-2. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 2) Post online discussion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 3) Free-write about someone you know that has been incarcerated

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Wednesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 1) Read Bad Boys chapters 3. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 2) Analyze and Discuss School Disciplinary Policies. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">media type="custom" key="19613822" align="right"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Thursday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 1) Read Bad Boys chapter 4. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 2) Post online discussion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 3) Watch first half of Boys n the Hood <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 4) Interview someone who is/or has been incarcerated/write 3-4 page reflection.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Friday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 1) Read Bad Boys chapter 5. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 2) Finish watching Boys n the Hood. = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Week 2 =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Monday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read Bad Boys chapters 6-7. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion on reading and film. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Interview and reflection __#|paper__ due.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Tuesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Finish reading Bad Boys. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) In class read "Child of the Americas," Morales and "Immigrants in Our Own Land", Baca <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Watch video “The danger of a single story.”

[|Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story | Video on TED.com] Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a sing...

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">4) Drawing on themes from //Bad Boys// and Adichie's story, write a narrative/memoir about experiences with school/community.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Wednesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read Beaty, “Knock Knock,” Justice, “Order in the Streets.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Read online "Prison Culture" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Watch “No Place for Kids” documentary <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">4) Post online discussion

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Knock Knock," by Daniel Beaty =

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Thursday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read DuBois, “The Souls of Black Folk.” (Chapter I) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Watch first half of Slam

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Friday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Finish watching Slam <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Discuss Solutions Project <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Post online discussion

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Week 3 =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Monday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “Spring and All,” “The Poor.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) First draft narrative/memoir paper due

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Tuesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read //Invisible Man// chapters 1-3. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Wednesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read Langston Hughes poetry in class. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Free write poetry or prose. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Decide on Solutions Project

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Thursday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read //Invisible Man// chapters 4-6. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Friday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read Learned, "I am an American". <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) In class read Chesterton, "The Fallacy of Success." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Work on survey

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">**Week 4**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Monday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read //Invisible Man// chapters 7-9. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Compose survey for student body.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Tuesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read Baca, "Immigrants in Our Own Land" and Sheaf: Carved on the Walls <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Survey student body

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Wednesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read //Invisible Man// chapters 10-11. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Work on Solutions Project

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Thursday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read //Invisible Man// chapters 12-13. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Compose petition for student body

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Friday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Watch //Fires in the Mirror// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Petition student body Fires in the MirrorPart I

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Fires in the MirrorPart II

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Week 5
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Monday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> 1) Read //Invisible Man// chapters 14-17 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">3) Work on Solutions Project

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Tuesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read Wiesel "Hope, Despair and Memory" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Compose letters to administrators and community

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Wednesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read //Invisible Man// chapters 18-19 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Work on Solutions Project

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Thursday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Narrative/memoir final revision due <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Work on Solutions Project

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> Friday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read //Invisible Man// chapters 20-21 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Final revisions Solutions Project

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Week 6--This week is dedicated to Publishing Solutions, setting dates for speaking to schools and communities.
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Monday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Finish reading //Invisible Man// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Tuesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read King, "Chaos or Community", "Letter from Birmingham Jail". <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Wednesday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read Morrison, "Recitatif" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Thursday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Watch "Maestra", a Katherine Murphy documentary <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Friday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">1) Read //The Autobiography of Malcolm X// chapters 1-2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">2) Post online discussion

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22.4px;">The following three weeks of this unit are set aside for reaching the community with our message, reading and online discussion of //The Autobiography of Malcolm X,// standardized testing, and any deviations in our syllabus. =====

= = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Resources [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Education Lockdown: The School to Jailhouse Track <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Michell Alexander: Jim Crow Law Still Exist in America <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Rethinking Schools <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">@http://www.rethinkingschools.org/opt-in/120105.shtml <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Stop the School to Jailhouse Track <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">[]