Instructions  

This is your ninth opportunity for a reaction paper. Please read the two news articles and listen to the two podcasts below.

 http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/21/292456211/black-preschoolers-far-more-likely-to-be-suspended   (article)

o This first link discusses the link between ethnicity and school disciplinary tactics.  

 http://www.npr.org/2014/05/17/313343358/black-men-and-their-life-cycles-of-inequity  (5 min podcast)  

o The second link discusses the school to prison pipeline for African American men. 

 http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/13/384005652/study-black-girls-are-being-pushed-out-of-school    (article)

o This third link discusses the school to prison pipeline for African American women. 

 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/538/is-this-working   (1 hour podcast)

o The final one is a podcast about education and ethnicity in the United States.

For the Reaction Essay you need to complete a 2 page essay that incorporates all of these sources as well as an outside peer-reviewed journal source and a final

source. Be sure to include the following:

 Develop a thesis statement that focuses on your reaction, opinion or conclusion about the current topic.

 Include an introductory paragraph, a concluding paragraph and middle paragraphs that each support the primary thesis statement made in your

introductory paragraph.

 Explicitly address and incorporate all four media sources.

 Explicitly address and incorporate the peer reviewed journal article that you reviewed for this essay.

 Explicitly address and incorporate the second source that you reviewed for this essay.

o This source could be a book, journal article, internet article, website etc. But it CANNOT be your textbook or the PowerPoint slides. 

 Connect at least one topic from the text or the PowerPoint slides to your discussion.

o Underline your reference to the topic from the text or PowerPoint slides.

o This cannot be the title topic of 'discrimination’ or ‘prejudice’. 

 Be sure that you have integrated all of your sources to support your thesis.

 Use proper spelling and grammar.

 Make sure that the paper follows a logical and coherent order.

 Include an APA style reference page. 

Good luck with it!