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  • Costa Mesa Middle High School
  • Costa Mesa, CA
  • 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. Learn more

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A good teacher is like a matchmaker—for English teachers, this means finding the right book to give students at the right time. My AP English Language and Composition students, who study and write exclusively non-fiction, take a deep dive into the questions that have beset humanity for all of history: What is good? What is truth? What is just? How can humans live a worthy life? We go back to the ancients, and read stories hot off the press as we study and practice rhetoric. The memoir, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, will be an engaging and powerful companion on our journey in AP English to become more knowledgeable about the world and get inspired by a man who brings hope to the hopeless. This well-written, challenging book will build my students’ reading levels and provide them some answers to the philosophical questions the class revolves around. It will be a good fit with the other books in our curriculum and will help round out their education about current events so they will be equipped to write compositions about real-world issues. My students engage in daily discussions and informal and formal debates; this book will arm them with rhetorical skills as they read Mr. Stevenson’s well-crafted defenses for the innocent people wrongly condemned to death row. I believe that this year is the right time for this particular book, as our country grapples with issues of justice for all Americans in a more immediate way than ever before. The New York Times review of Just Mercy said that “the message this book [hammers] home by dramatic examples of one man’s refusal to sit quietly and countenance horror, is that evil can be overcome, a difference can be made.” My students will be the difference-makers of our future!

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A good teacher is like a matchmaker—for English teachers, this means finding the right book to give students at the right time. My AP English Language and Composition students, who study and write exclusively non-fiction, take a deep dive into the questions that have beset humanity for all of history: What is good? What is truth? What is just? How can humans live a worthy life? We go back to the ancients, and read stories hot off the press as we study and practice rhetoric. The memoir, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, will be an engaging and powerful companion on our journey in AP English to become more knowledgeable about the world and get inspired by a man who brings hope to the hopeless. This well-written, challenging book will build my students’ reading levels and provide them some answers to the philosophical questions the class revolves around. It will be a good fit with the other books in our curriculum and will help round out their education about current events so they will be equipped to write compositions about real-world issues. My students engage in daily discussions and informal and formal debates; this book will arm them with rhetorical skills as they read Mr. Stevenson’s well-crafted defenses for the innocent people wrongly condemned to death row. I believe that this year is the right time for this particular book, as our country grapples with issues of justice for all Americans in a more immediate way than ever before. The New York Times review of Just Mercy said that “the message this book [hammers] home by dramatic examples of one man’s refusal to sit quietly and countenance horror, is that evil can be overcome, a difference can be made.” My students will be the difference-makers of our future!

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