This class was taken the second semester of my freshman year at Longwood. Throughout the class, we learned a lot about mass incarceration and how the prison system works in the United States. I have never spent much time learning about those topics so it was really cool and interesting to understand them better. We also wrote a lot of papers and did a lot of reading for this class which helped me to become a better writer. At the beginning of the semester, I was good at writing papers, but definitely not great at them. Throughout the semester, my teacher truly helped me learn how writing in college is different from high school which led to me to not only do well in my English class, but all of my other classes as well. That is the one lesson I have really taken with me from this English class, which has helped me tremendously in the rest of my classes already.
Artifact:
Title: Research Paper
Author: Katelyn Weber
Date: May 7, 2019
This artifact was our research paper at the end of the semester. We were instructed to come up with a way to intervene in the problem of mass incarceration by focusing on a specific topic to work with. The topic I chose to focus on was the school-to-prison pipeline, so my whole paper was about how to slowly stop mass incarceration by starting at young ages within the school systems. If the problems and behavior that lead to people being incarcerated can be prevented at early ages through the correct policies and procedures, then mass incarceration can hopefully begin to decline in the future.