Please complete #1-5 of the worksheet below BEFORE reading and annotating the article. Then complete the remaining questions based on your understanding of the article.
Please complete #1-5 of the worksheet below BEFORE reading and annotating the article. Then complete the remaining questions based on your understanding of the article.
This video explanation is intended to link our unit on race/mass incarceration to our unit on social class. Look at the questions listed below before watching the video in order to focus your written responses afterward.
Mark Jay, a sociologist at UC Santa Barbara examines how mass incarceration and police violence overwhelmingly target poor people, regardless of race. Given the direct correlation between incarcerated individuals and those most affected by poverty and inequality, he suggests that providing resources, especially for those suffering from mental health issues, would substantially reduce those numbers.
The summer of 2020 is now being referred to as "a moment of racial reckoning". What have we as a country learned from the murder of George Floyd? Where did the #blacklivesmatter movement originate? An answer might be found in the tragic story of Michael Brown of Ferguson, MO. We will watch the following film in conjunction with a lesson on policing and media literacy:
Our goal: quote and cite a reputable source (not opinion-based) that either supports or refutes the slides in this artistic response to mass incarceration. Please be prepared to explain the slide IYOW (in your own words). ENTER YOUR RESPONSE HERE.
The slides:
The assessment criteria:
The music video:
Could Finland's system provide a different model? Click below:
How do the results of this survey relate to our unit on mass incarceration?
Or does class matter most?
Please read and annotate the article below. Think about how you would define the terms listed below. How does the author define (and distinguish between) the following terms:
1. Prejudice?
2. Discrimination?
3. Racism?