More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Since my students come from extremely diverse backgrounds, our goal as a school and an English department is to provide them with rich texts that are meaningful to their lives. Too often students in language arts classrooms are forced to engage with texts that do not relate to their own lives and cultural backgrounds. A Lesson Before Dying could not be more relevant to the social issues that we face as a society today. Set in the rural south during Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, this enormously moving novel tells the story of a falsely accused, young, black man on death row and a Louisiana born, college educated teacher who visits him in prison and helps him regain his dignity.
My students will use this amazing piece of American literature to explore a range of engaging topics and ideas such as segregation, racial profiling, the prison system, as well as historical and contemporary equality movements. We will combine informational and journalistic texts about the topics examined in the novel to enrich each student's experience with the reading. In our work, we will draw connections between these texts and analyze ideas across time that are as relevant today as they were over seventy-five years ago.
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Since my students come from extremely diverse backgrounds, our goal as a school and an English department is to provide them with rich texts that are meaningful to their lives. Too often students in language arts classrooms are forced to engage with texts that do not relate to their own lives and cultural backgrounds. A Lesson Before Dying could not be more relevant to the social issues that we face as a society today. Set in the rural south during Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, this enormously moving novel tells the story of a falsely accused, young, black man on death row and a Louisiana born, college educated teacher who visits him in prison and helps him regain his dignity.
My students will use this amazing piece of American literature to explore a range of engaging topics and ideas such as segregation, racial profiling, the prison system, as well as historical and contemporary equality movements. We will combine informational and journalistic texts about the topics examined in the novel to enrich each student's experience with the reading. In our work, we will draw connections between these texts and analyze ideas across time that are as relevant today as they were over seventy-five years ago.