English 9 Honors Blog Fall '19

Please  respond  to the book  in at least 300 words .  You can respond any way you like, but you might consider the question below.  What made the author Wes Moore traditionally more successful than the other Wes Moore? In your response, consider the many influences on each Wes Moore’s life (such as family, friends, education, the neighborhood, and environment).  Consider, too, each man’s personality and actions.

Please respond to each of the questions below.   Responses should be  at least one paragraph .  Number your responses so that it is clear which question you are answering.   1. Military school obviously benefited author Wes Moore. What did author Wes Moore go on to do after exiting military school?  Do you think there were any other paths that could have set him on the straight and narrow? 2. Prisoner Wes Moore continued to proclaim innocence, saying he wasn’t there for the robbery. Do you think the author believed him? Did you believe him? Do you think he should have been sentenced to life in prison? 3. At one point, author Wes Moore asks prisoner Wes Moore, "Do you think we are all products of our environments?"  How would you answer this question? 4. Prisoner Wes Moore says that we are either products of our environments or products of our expectations.  Which is it?  What about you?  (Are you more a product of your environment or m...

Please respond to each of the questions below.  Responses should be  at least one paragraph .  Number your responses so that it is clear which question you are answering.  Please post your responses by Monday, December 2nd @8:00p.m. 1. Outside of his family, who warned author Wes Moore about the bad path he was on? (police officer after he got caught tagging) Did Moore heed this warning? For how long? Why didn’t the change stick? 2. Author Wes Moore states, “Later in life I learned that the way many governors projected the numbers of beds they’d need for prison facilities was by examining the reading scores of third graders.” (p. 54) How did reading this make you feel? Why? 3. What allowed author Wes Moore to go to better schools than prisoner Wes Moore?  (What kinds of sacrifices did his family make?) 4.  How did Tony try to dissuade prisoner Wes Moore from following his illegal path? Why did it work or not work? 5. At the end of this...

Please respond to all of the questions below .  Responses should be  at least one paragraph .  Number your responses so that it is clear which question you are answering.   1. What drove author Wes Moore to write to the prisoner Wes Moore? Why do you think prisoner Wes Moore wrote back to the author? 2. What was the fate of author Wes Moore’s father? Do you think his father might have survived under other circumstances? 3. Author Wes Moore states, “Soon it became clear that the Riots were about more than the tragic death of Dr. King. They were about anger and hurt so extreme that rational thought was thrown out the window – these were people so deranged by frustration that they were burning down their own neighborhood” (19).  Does this “deranged frustration” make sense to you? Are there places in today’s America that feel like this? 4. Author Wes Moore talks about the Bronx in the 1980s and early 1990s as an apocalyptic place to be with drugs, burned ou...

Starr pledges to "never be quiet" ( Chapter 26, p. 444 ). After reading this book, how can you use your voice to promote and advance social justice? Reflect on how you and your community discuss and address inequality.   Please make sure that your comment is at least 200 words. ( Questions issued by publishers .)

Please Respond to the following post in at least 250 words: Chris and Starr have a breakthrough in their relationship --- Starr admits to him that she was in the car with Khalil and shares the memories of Natasha’s murder (Chapter 17). Discuss why Starr’s admission and releasing of this burden to Chris is significant. Explore the practice of “code switching” and discuss how you might code switch in different circumstances in your own life.