English 9 Honors Blog Fall '19

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...