Assignment objective:
Using notes from reading Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Bill Keller’s What’s Prison For?, students will demonstrate the multiple ways the author structures his argument, such as stated and unstated assumptions, conclusions drawn from premises, unsupported opinions, and explanations.
Additionally, students will write of how the author organizes his argument, using these four chapters as premises to his main thesis.
Connection to module objectives:

Read and interpret a book-length text.

Identify key terms such as, argument, conclusion, explanation, joining words, opinion, standard form.

Identify unstated premises and hidden assumptions.

Steps:
Keller’s Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 act as support for his book’s main thesis, in which the author details how the U.S. prison and jail system is broken and the possible remedies available. Now that you have read this book, please write of your own viewpoint of one of Kellers remedies to the problem with the U.S. prison and jail system.