Teaching Social Justice in a Two-Year College Classroom:  To Kill a Mockingbird and Just Mercy

Teaching Social Justice in a Two-Year College Classroom: To Kill a Mockingbird and Just Mercy

By Andy Rogers (arogers41@gsu.edu) In order to teach critical reading and thinking skills, I developed a lesson plan for my Modern World Literature class that focused on the American South. The purpose was to demonstrate the complexity of a literary character and...
Teaching Social Justice in a Two-Year College Classroom:  Accounts from the Classroom

Teaching Social Justice in a Two-Year College Classroom: Accounts from the Classroom

By Neeley Gossett  (ngossett1@gsu.edu) During the fall 2016 semester, I assigned my English 1101 classes to write personal narrative essays about social injustice. My inspiration for one of the assignments came from the Alliance Theatre’s Collision Project. “For three...