 What I Want My Words To
Do To You Discussion Guide for Youth Audiences (PDF - 700k)
This guide is especially
designed to help you use What I Want My Words
to
Do
to You to engage youth who are facing challenges related to incarceration.
The
close-up look at inmates reflecting on their lives provides a model
for viewers to
reflect on themselves. As an intimate and revealing portrait of
women in prison,
What I Want My Words to Do to You is an excellent tool for helping
young
people to understand better their own family members who are incarcerated.
Juvenile offenders may be especially drawn in when they realize
that many of
the women in the workshop were in their late teens or early twenties
when they were arrested for murder. The inmates’ pasts can
provide a springboard for
young people to look into their futures, providing them with an
opportunity to
learn from the mistaken choices of their elders.
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