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Loading... My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gunby Theo Padnos
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The 33-year-old author shares his experiences teaching a literature class inside a locked prison room at the Woodstock Correctional Facility in Vermont--guiding his students to discover themselves and each other through the power of the written word. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)374.974365Social sciences Education Home education; Self Education and Culture Central organizations, state departments, institutesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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All of this is not to say that Theo fails all the time. The students (whom he refers to as his "kids", which is fair given the number of teenagers in the jail, a fact Theo dwells on at some length late in the book) have some excellent insights, and there are moments of success with the class, if not out-and-out breakthroughs. It isn't a heart-warming tale by any means, but not is it a pure polemic against our criminal justice system. Instead, it is a very effective mix of memoir and social criticism, definitely recommended for people interested in criminal justice, the plight of the teenager, the decay of the industrial northeast, and/or education.
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