English How important
Pedagogical Module 2 is law enforcement?
Curricular Threads: Communication and Cultural Awareness,
Oral Communication, Reading, Writing, Language Through the Arts
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There are few prisons as emblematic as Alcatraz. On June 12th, 1962, the guards were completely
Surrounded by the icy waters of the Pacific with shocked when they did not find the brothers John and
sharks, it was known as The Rock. Alcatraz was Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris. When the guards
the maximum-security prison of the world in lifted the blanket of one bed, a ceramic head fell to the
the 1930s. The most dangerous criminals like floor and broke into pieces.
Al Capone and the Birdman of Alcatraz were locked
there. It had strong iron bars, a dozen daily checks on The FBI searched all over the island and the coast,
the inmates, and the guards were strategically located. but they could never find anything other than paddles
Escaping from Alcatraz was impossible. and handmade life vests. It is a mystery whether the
three prisoners survived and escaped from Alcatraz or
All the escape attempts were discovered. The if they died while they tried to escape.
prisoners all died while trying to escape except for Retrieved from: https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/
a mystery that the FBI could never solve. alcatraz-escape
• Did you know anything about Alcatraz Island and its prison?
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• What do you think really happened? Do you think the three inmates could escape?
• Why doesn’t Alcatraz exist as a prison anymore?
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Lesson A
Communication and Cultural Awareness
Social Studies - History
How do you think justice was handled in different societies in the past?
Before Reading The Study of Crime
••Have you heard of Felipe Criminology is based on the ideas of some thinkers and philosophers.
Guama Poma de Ayala’s They asked how we can live in society and thought it was only possible
“El primer nueva Corónica thanks to a construction we all live in called “social contract”. That is,
y Buen Gobierno”? we limit some of our freedom in order to live peacefully in society.
••What type information If someone breaks the social contract, society makes them pay through
do you think it has? punishments or limitations. There are many types of criminals like
burglars, robbers, identity thieves, bank robbers, shoplifters, pickpockets,
kidnappers and society has made laws to punish all these people. Nowadays
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Value: Human rights Retrieved from: http://sociology.iresearchnet.com/sociology-of-crime-criminology/
Punishments in the Past.
After the conquest, much 1. What did philosophers think was necessary to live peacefully in society?
information was lost about
what life was like before
the arrival of the Spaniards. 2. Explain in your own words what “social contract” is. Give examples from
However, thanks to some texts your life situation.
such as “The Chronicles of the
Indies”, we know that the Inca
Empire had rules that regulated 3. According to the text, how does society keep the peace?
the conduct of people and
actions considered criminal.
These norms established 4. What types of justice from the past have you heard about?
punishments according to the
seriousness of the crime and
the social class of the person
who had committed the crime. 5. Complete the sentences with the words in the chart.
Historians affirm that
the Incas had extremely hard Burglar Shoplifter Identity thief Bank robber
and cruel rules, some qualified Pickpocket Kidnapper Plagiarist Drug dealer
as draconian. For example,
the “Vinpillai”, or punishment a. A person who steals from a store is a .
of adultery, consisted of stoning
the culprit to death. b. A person who enters a home or building to steal is a .
Retrieved from: https://revistas.juridicas. c. A person who takes the name of another person is an .
unam.mx/index.php/historia-derecho/article/
view/10207/12233 and https://es.scribd.com/ d. A person who takes the money from the bank is a .
document/323899462/La-Justicia-Incaica
e. A person who takes a person until someone pays to get them back
is a .
f. A person who steals things from purses or bags is a .
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g. A person who takes the ideas of another person without giving
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them credit is a .
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draconian. extremely severe h. A person who sells illegal substances is a .
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Language Through the Arts
Art
How do inmates spend their time in prison?
Art in Prison
Value: Human rights There are many people in prisons around
the world. Therefore, with the aim of
The United Nations (1948) rehabilitating, distracting or preparing
states under the Article 19 prisoners to rejoin society, many prisons Fre
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of The Universal Declaration have various programs for inmates. A common
of Human Rights that “Everyone program in several prisons is “arts behind bars”.
has the right to freedom “Arts behind bars” is not a single project, it is a set of
of opinion and expression; workshops such as needlework in male prisons, arts projects,
this right includes freedom or collaborative stage shows.
to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive One of the objectives is to channel the strong feelings that lead
and impart information and to confinement, violence or danger. All this trapped energy can
ideas through any media and stimulate the creativity of the prisoners and come out in the form
regardless of frontiers”. of art as a way of reform or rehabilitation. Another objective is to build
critical awareness and confidence by learning and mastering a skill.
United Nations. (1948, December 10).
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Retrieved from: https://www.un.org/en/ Some prisons have live music presentations or shows where the
universal-declaration-human-rights/ prisoners are spectators.
Others have a great number of art projects created with and by
prisoners. Some projects are the creation of literary works, paintings,
and sculptures. An example of art created in prison is the film “Modelo
estéreo” where Garo and My Friend, two ex-convicts, show the music
that is created in the “La Modelo” prison in Colombia.
How is this statement of the
Retrieved from: https://oxfordre.com/criminology/abstract/10.1093 acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/
UN related to the text you read
acrefore-9780190264079-e-18 and https://www senalcolombia.tv/documental/grandes-obras-de-arte-que-
about prisons? nacieron-en-la-carcel
Do you agree or disagree with
this article of The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights 1. What are the two purposes of art in prisons according to the text?
applied into prisons? Explain.
In your notebook write a
short paragraph (90 words)
explaining your reasons.
2. What are the two roles that prisoners can have regarding “art behind bars”?
Vocabulary
3. How does the art program in prisons benefit society?
needlework. sewing decorative
designs onto cloth and clothes
confinement. the situation
in which a person or animal
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is kept somewhere, usually 4. Is there any art behind the bars project or workshop in your country?
by force What is it about? Is it successful?
awareness. knowing that
something exists
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Writing
Art
How can you access freedom when you are not free?
Art to Express
Grammar Tip
Connectors are words
and phrases that link ideas
to connect them in a cohesive
and coherent way. There are
many categories. One of them is
the illustration connectors like:
such as, in this case, for instance,
for example, as an example,
illustrated by, as revealed by.
For example:
There were many famous gunmen
in the US; for example, Billy
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the Kid or Crazy Clay.
With what you know and have learned in this lesson, create an “art behind Crime movies such as Nueve Reinas
the bars” project proposal. Write a 90-word letter to the mayor of your city attract people with their interesting
explaining why you think it is important to have these projects in prisons characters.
and propose one project. Remember to follow a real letter format and give
good reasons, and use connectors to give examples.
Introduction
Reason 1
Reason 2
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Lesson C
Communication and Cultural Awareness
History
What do you know about the Old West in the United States more than 150 years ago?
Who Were the Best Gunmen in History?
World Fact
The Old West Among the most famous gunmen in history is Clay
By the twentieth century, Allison. People had nicknamed him “Crazy Clay” since
the United States had been he was a teenager in Texas, where he was born in 1840.
in the period of expansion The police placed many search warrants and had captured
to the Pacific Ocean coast. him a few times, but nobody had wanted to execute the sentence.
History has named this period He married young, and a few days later his wife disappeared. Nobody
the Old West or Wild West. knew anything else about her. When he was 21 years old, he had already
Hundreds of people have killed two rangers with gunshots because they told him not to scream in
created many movies, songs a gambling hall. Everyone thought he was a psychopath. By 1865, he had
killed 20 men in the Assault on Lawrence.
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By the time he died in 1887, he had returned to his land and worked as
grouped under the genre
a cowboy in different places, but he always killed someone, and the farm
“Western”. In these works,
owners threw him out. He had duels with multiple gunmen, then he killed a
amazing stories of cowboys,
sheriff and had been persecuted by rangers until he hid with the Apaches and
pioneers, and Amerindians
finally married an Indian woman who later disappeared. According to some,
are told. In the Wild West,
Clay Allison killed more than 50 people.
there were some treacherous
criminals who were not just Retrieved from: https://www.diariocritico.com/los-10-mejores-y-mas-famosos-pistoleros-
fiction. There were American reales-del-lejano-oeste
cowboys, and adventurers
who have become real 1. Where does the nickname of Clay Alisson come from?
legends.
Retrieved from: https://www.guioteca.com/
mitos-y-enigmas/cuales-fueron-los-cinco-
pistoleros-mas-peligrosos-y-legendarios-del- 2. Did Clay Alisson have a happy marriage? Explain.
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3. Read again and fill in the timeline with the important events in his life.
1840 1887
4. Match the occupation with the definition.
Vocabulary
a person, especially in the western US,
warrant. an official whose job is to take care of cattle.
Sheriff
document that gives the
police permission to search
someone’s home, arrest an official in charge of performing the
Gunman orders of the law within a particular county.
a person, or take some
other action
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gambling hall. a place where a person who steals farm animals.
you gamble
gamble. the activity Cowboy
a man, usually a criminal,
of betting money who is armed with a gun.
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Language Through the Arts
What crimes do you know about that involve works of art?
Crimes in Art
Artists like to represent and capture special moments. There are
multiple works of art, photographs, films, pictures and songs about crimes.
Below is a list of some crime scenes that were captured in works of art.
“Birmingham Race Riot” (1964) by Andy Warhol are photographs
of a policeman letting his dog attack “rioters” who had been protesting civil
rights in Alabama.
Pixabay / prettysleepy1
In 1493, Leonardo da Vinci released his work “A Man Being
Pickpocketed”. In this painting, we see a man in the middle of men that had
surrounded him to steal his money. “The Murder” (1867-8) by the French
artist Paul Cézanne is a work in which Cézanne portrays a fierce murder
done by two people. “The first murder” is a photograph Arthur Fellig took
in 1941. He was known because he always got to the crime scenes before
the police. In the photograph there is a group of young people who were
looking at a man who had been murdered. There are many other artworks
that portray crimes.
World Fact
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/apr/23/top-10-
crime-scenes-in-art
There are books and movies
that involve crimes or deaths.
It is normal for a death cause 1. What kind of artworks is the text about?
us pain. We want to keep
looking and to know what
had happened before that 2. Why do you think artists like to capture crime scenes in artworks?
moment. The more mysterious,
incomprehensible or incredible,
the more interest it generates. 3. In your opinion what was the purpose of Warhol when he published
Some artists are able to capture “Birmingham Race Riot”?
those moments.
4. Do you agree or disagree with galleries where this type of artwork
is exhibited?
5. Match the picture with the description:
A group of men who have made
a circle to take a man’s money
Vocabulary
A picture where we can see a group
rioter. people who meet of people watching an authority
in a public place and behave doing something unusual
in a noisy, violent, and
uncontrolled way, often
A picture where we see a pair
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as a protest
of card-sharks who trick a young
pickpocket. to steal things out
of people’s pockets or bags, A picture where we see a person who
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especially in a crowd has been stabbed violently by a man
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