Many people falsely believe that a school’s main objective is to increase a student’s academic ability. However, school bears a much greater responsibility, teachers have the duty of informing the students on the topic of proper social behavior. A student’s social awareness correlates with their success as adults. For this reason, teachers must prepare their student for adult life by teaching proper social skills. One component of the social landscape is the concept of social justice. A school prepares it’s students to be ministers of social justice by encouraging individuality and exposing them to historical examples of injustice.
The English Department serves to enlighten students and teach them the meaning of social justice. Social …show more content…
As time progresses social conduct evolves. What was acceptable to say ten years ago may be considered inappropriate today. To demonstrate, many citizens criticize Thanksgiving for celebrating the destruction of Native-American culture. The literature that high school students read should challenge their opinions, “Good books unsettle us, make us ask questions about what we thought was certain,” (Glascow). The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins provides students with a clash between morality and tradition. The story follows Katniss Everdeen, a girl who volunteers to compete in the yearly “Hunger Games” set up by the ruling Capitol. This annual tradition acts as a glorified gladiator battle and only serves the purpose of displaying the Capitol’s dominance. Throughout the text Katniss verbally displays her discontent for the Games, “‘I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do that there is a part of every tribute they can’t own,’” (Collins 38-39). Her outspokenness provides the spark to ignite the fire of revolution. Her eventual victory in the Hunger Games gives people the courage to fight the Capitol and its corrupt ways. This text shows students that longevity does not give an act or event justification. The books that students read in school grant them the skills they need to critique the more corrupt parts of American
The English Department serves to enlighten students and teach them the meaning of social justice. Social …show more content…
As time progresses social conduct evolves. What was acceptable to say ten years ago may be considered inappropriate today. To demonstrate, many citizens criticize Thanksgiving for celebrating the destruction of Native-American culture. The literature that high school students read should challenge their opinions, “Good books unsettle us, make us ask questions about what we thought was certain,” (Glascow). The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins provides students with a clash between morality and tradition. The story follows Katniss Everdeen, a girl who volunteers to compete in the yearly “Hunger Games” set up by the ruling Capitol. This annual tradition acts as a glorified gladiator battle and only serves the purpose of displaying the Capitol’s dominance. Throughout the text Katniss verbally displays her discontent for the Games, “‘I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do that there is a part of every tribute they can’t own,’” (Collins 38-39). Her outspokenness provides the spark to ignite the fire of revolution. Her eventual victory in the Hunger Games gives people the courage to fight the Capitol and its corrupt ways. This text shows students that longevity does not give an act or event justification. The books that students read in school grant them the skills they need to critique the more corrupt parts of American