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Maryland State Department of Education Receives Grant for Correctional Education Libraries
Ohanian Comment: Although I applaud any book added to a prison library, I hope librarians altered the official booklist before making their purchases. Just think of the impact books had on Malcolm X when he was in prison, how reading transformed him. He wasn't reading a picture book about Abigail Adams.
I want to weep. Or rage.
Here are the multi-media resources listed by the grant givers: History in a Box resource materials on Abraham Lincoln developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, including a resource book, CD, interactive CD-ROM, and posters featuring primary source documents, photographs, artwork, maps, songs, and other teaching resources.
News Release
BALTIMORE, MD
The 16 libraries of the Maryland Correctional Education Libraries Network, a part of the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), will receive 21 books, along with multi-media and computer resources from the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), as part of a “We the People Bookshelf” grant award, with a value of $5,500.
The Correctional Education Libraries serve the information and reference needs of more than 26,000 inmates in Maryland prisons to help prepare inmates for their transition out of prison and into the workforce and community to lead a productive life.
The “We the People Bookshelf” includes books and materials for readers from K-12, such as easy-reader picture books, historical novels, and biographies of historical figures like Abraham Lincoln, Abigail Adams, and participants in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycotts. The books highlight the theme “Created Equal” and encourage readers to examine American history and discuss the challenges faced to achieve the goals of freedom and equality for all. In addition, the materials tie in to the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial in 2009, with resources featured in the “History in a Box” resource kit.
The following Maryland Correctional Education Libraries will receive the books, along with a resource guide, discussion questions, and tips for conducting a successful book discussion program:
* Brockbridge Correctional Facility, Jessup
* Central Laundry Correctional Camp Library, Sykesville
* Eastern Correctional Institution Annex Library, Westover
* Eastern Correctional Institution East Library, Westover
* Eastern Correctional Institution West Library, Westover
* Jessup Correctional Institution Library, Jessup
* Jessup Pre-Release Unit Library, Jessup
* Maryland Correctional Institution for Women Library, Jessup
* Maryland Correctional Education Libraries, Baltimore
* Maryland Correctional Institution, Jessup Library, Jessup
* Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown Library, Hagerstown
* Maryland Correctional Training Center Library, Hagerstown
* Metropolitan Transition Center Library, Baltimore
* North Branch Correctional Institution Library, Cumberland
* Patuxent Institution Library, Jessup
* Roxbury Correctional Institution Library, Hagerstown
* Western Correctional Institution Library, Cumberland
For more information about Correctional Education Program in Maryland visit the following link on the Maryland State Department of Education website http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/divisions/careertech/
correctional_education/libraries/.
Books selected for the "Created Equal" Bookshelf
Kindergarten to Grade 3
* The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
* The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
* Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
* Pink Y Say by Patricia Polacco (translated by Alejandra Lopez Varela)
Grades 4 to 6
* Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman
* Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman
* Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
* Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton
* Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
* Lyddie by Katherine Paterson (translated by Rosa Benavides)
Grades 7 to 8
* Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
* Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
* Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters ed. by Harold Holzer
* Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez
* Senderos Fronterizos: Breaking Through Spanish Edition by Francisco Jiménez
Grades 9 to 12
* Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober
* That All People May Be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth by Nez Perce Chief Joseph
* Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
* Flores Para Algernon by Daniel Keyes (translated by Paz Barroso)
* Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller
* Amistad: A Novel by David Pesci
— News Release
Maryland State Education Department
2008-06-25
http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/NR/exeres/7E15B4C1-3B51-49B8-BE51-8E26B96FD0D9,frameless.htm?Year=2008&Month=6%%3E
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