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*Continue completing evidence chart in order to make an informed argument.  The topic is, Why do so many people join gangs?

* Groups will gather their collective evidence to bring their argument to the whole group

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* Comprehension test: Chapters 1-4
* Role play activity with the articles from this week.

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* Create a "They Say, I Say" on the different articles from yesterday's stations.
* Finish the reading of Chapter's 3-4.
* Comprehension review for tomorrow's test.

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* Review They Say....I say and entering an argument culture.
*  Rotate through stations & work together to pull out the essential and possible sides of the argument.
*  Review each groups findings through the Atwoodian table.
* Continue reading chapters 3-4

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* Move through stations gathering evidence on each of the 4 articles.
* Continue reading "The Outsider's" chapter 3-4

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* How to join a conversation, using the Burke Method
*Read last weeks article and practice, "They Say, I Say"
*Read Chapter 3-4 of "The Outsiders"

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Reviewing the following article to introduce and model the activity, They Say...I Say.

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RACINE - At 8, he knew he wanted to be a drug dealer when he grew up.

When he was 13, his mother got him real drugs to sell so he wouldn't be killed for selling licked-off Lemonheads crushed to look like crack.

Back then, he didn't think he'd live past 16, but on Saturday, at age 31, he graduated from college.

Anton House has, at times, wanted to hide his past from his peers at school. Now, he wants to tell his story of gang member turned college graduate to show others they, too, can change.

The former drug dealer graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with a bachelor of arts degree in history. This summer, he'll be saving up for graduate school and checking books off his reading list, including "The Black History of the White House." Then he'll be bound for Washington, D.C.

A Racine native, House grew up on 11th Street, throwing the Gangster Disciples' pitchfork sign and shuffling from one relative's house to another, as was typical for a child with a drug-addicted parent.

As a boy, he saw the dealers going in and out of a drug house across the street from his grandmother's, flaunting big gold chains, leather outfits and adidas track suits.

"Seeing this, every kid wanted (that lifestyle)," House said. "We identified what represented wealth."

He was 13 when he came up with the idea to sell licked-off Lemonheads for $20 each. After that, his mom got him some real drugs, knowing what addicts would do to him when he got caught selling fakes. To him, that was her way of loving him: "If you're going to do it, do it. Don't play because people will kill you."

He had kept a big gun since he was 13, wore a bulletproof vest around the 'hood and dropped out of Case High School at 16. He was turned off from school, House said, because all he heard about being black was that his ancestors were slaves.

His first encounter with "juvie" was at 15, after getting caught with a sawed-off shotgun. A year later, he was back on the streets, where nothing had changed.

He became so numb to the lifestyle, he said, that he didn't care if he sold drugs to pregnant women, robbed people or shot them.

"I was so negative that if there was someone positive around me, I'd try to influence them, get them drunk, get them high, 'Here, take my pistol,' " House said. "I'd try to corrupt them because I was so miserable myself."

House went to prison for the first time in 1998, at age 18, for possession of cocaine.

By the time he got out, after two years, he had an 18-month-old son to support. But he had no luck finding jobs with a felony on his record.

"I had no money; I had nothing. But now I had a son," House said. "After that, I was back selling crack."

He got caught selling drugs again in 2001, and this time went to prison for five years.

It was in prison that he came across "The Destruction of Black Civilization," recommended by a man who was serving a life sentence.

After that he read every day - books on black history, philosophy and more, in his search for his identity, driven by a desire to change and a natural penchant for learning.

House had received his high school equivalency diploma while in prison, and found motivation and accountability in the Community Re-entry Program once he got out.

He entered Parkside in 2007 as a full-time student after being rejected from jobs with no work experience and two felonies on his record.

While studying came naturally, House said it was harder to get used to the university culture.

He got worried when a letter arrived saying he was on the dean's list: "I thought it was something bad."

But he overcame the initial challenges, and later became the president of the Black Student Union.

House defied the high recidivism rate for prisoners through his inquisitive and hard-working nature, said Parkside Associate Provost Dennis Rome, former chair of the university's Criminal Justice Department.

"I was struck by his willingness to learn," Rome said. "For him to have that insight and say, 'Hey, I want to change my life,' it's unusual."

House has been accepted into Howard University in Washington for its two-year master's program in African diaspora studies.

There are many things he wants to learn about, including the creation of gangs, the Black Panther Party movement, the rise of crack in inner cities and the assassination of black political figures.

His goal is to become a professor, to write books about positive cultural identity, helping educate black youths to value themselves and rise above the reality of not having.

The new graduate said: "As a kid, I would've never seen myself in this position."

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From gang life to grad school -- 'I would've never seen myself in this position'

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RACINE - At 8, he knew he wanted to be a drug dealer when he grew up. When he was 13, his mother got him real drugs to sell so he wouldn't be killed for selling licked-off Lemonheads crushed to look like crack.

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Student's will put this chart in their interactive notebook. They will use this as a guide for gathering evidence.

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"Gangs" get a bad press. The overused noun is now synonymous with the evils of youth culture and its incumbent violence, drugs, guns and sexual misconduct. There is a lot of rooftop shouting and table banging about the breakdown of teenage society: poor education, dysfunctional families, no respect for the older generations. "Wasn't like that when I was young." This dim view is, at best, misguided. At worst, clouded in denial and cushioned in the fiction of the non-existent "good old days". Societies throughout history have each had their share of unlawful, out-of-control youth.

We hear a lot about an epidemic rise in youth crime. The truth is, youth crime has always been a part of society. It is how society deals with it that dictates its trajectory. Much of the reported rise in youth crime is in direct relation to the huge population increase in recent decades and, crucially, in the way the media choose to report youth crime.

I put the blame for the de-meaning of the word gang squarely on the money hungry, narrative-driven media to ramp up our fear of the fiction of "gangs dominating every street corner". The issue is adrenalised in drama, documentaries and rolling news by repeatedly declaring "gang culture" as the cause of teenage societal meltdown. Gang culture is the widely accepted term used directly in connection with youth violence.

I've been working with young people both in and out of prison for more than 20 years, and what's clear is that gangs in and of themselves are not the problem. I was part of a gang in school and it was all about belonging to a group - it had nothing to do with fighting other gangs. It's when gangs start using violence to control turf and territory and make money that we need to take action. Young people join gangs because it is a crucial part of growing up. Gangs do not always revert to violence. If there are positive, older role models involved with these gangs, they can hold the boundaries essential to stopping them spiralling out of control and turning violent and crime driven. This is key.

Young people are looking for boundaries, and these are explored in gangs and in their social interactions with each other and people outside the gang circle. They will push the boundaries until they reach a wall they are either unable or unwilling to break down. This is an essential part of the process of growing up and becoming an active, law abiding member of society. The proliferation of violence in so many gangs in the UK is largely down to the absence of positive older role models holding the boundary line of acceptable behaviour. Without them, gang culture becomes toxic, loses its moral compass and often resorts to violence in dealing with power struggles and internal conflicts.

But there are many organisations working positively with young people in gangs and helping them through very difficult times in their lives, helping them through the often tough transition of evolving into productive, responsible members of society.

Having stopped my own death slide into crime, drugs and violence, I now choose to balance out media driven, moral "gang" panic with the many positive stories of reconciliation, rehabilitation and community reintegration that I hear about pretty much every day (see my previous blogs).

For me, gang is simply another word for tribe. In essence, gangs are good for society. In a healthy state, they are about the formation of groups that operate under ethical and moral codes of conduct upheld and enforced by the elders of the community. If these codes are based in a fundamental respect for society and the individual, there's absolutely nothing wrong with gangs. If the elders in the gangs have been supported and steered into responsible adulthood and are able in turn to guide and contain the fiery energy of future, younger gang members, society will be a far richer, more connected and ultimately less fearful place.

* Caspar Walsh is an author and journalist and founder of the charity Write to Freedom
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"Gangs" get a bad press. The overused noun is now synonymous with the evils of youth culture and its incumbent violence, drugs, guns and sexual misconduct. There is a lot of rooftop shouting and table banging about the breakdown of teenage society: poor education, dysfunctional families, no respect for the older generations.

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On 1 August 2012, an early morning phone call left me stunned and numb. One of the most amazing women I have ever worked with, who has dedicated decades of her life to working with young people in the inner city, lost her son. He had been stabbed through the heart three days after his 16th birthday in an unprovoked attack. I could barely believe what I was being told. I felt physically sick; I couldn't hold it together. A few days later, we held a service for peace at a church in Peckham to pray for the community. Courageously, through tears of pain, she came and joined many others who had lost their children in similar circumstances.

After the riots of 2011, we were told that one in five of the rioters was part of a gang. As a result, the government declared an "all-out war on gangs". Despite the home secretary acknowledging that "we can't arrest our way out of the [gang] problem", new laws that gave police additional powers were passed and the government seemed to begin trying to do just that. Recent political rhetoric and reports of 1,500 gang-related arrests by Operation Trident have sought to persuade us that we are making real progress on "the gangs problem". However, it is naive to think that tactical enforcement alone will solve the complex causes of violence and stop young people from leaving school and joining gangs.

Even when gang members are in prison, they are not removed from gang culture. My heart sank when a prison chaplain recently told me that there were 35 gangs operating inside a young offenders institution I was visiting and that they communicated regularly with gang members outside. Many had to eat alone in their cells to keep gang members apart. Those who break the law must face the consequences of their actions, but let's not delude ourselves that current policy is making a sustainable impact upon gangs. Far from it. When gang members are imprisoned, a vacuum is created for younger members to step into their shoes, causing an escalation in violence as they vie for position.

Has anything really changed over the past year? The answer is "no". We have kids attending some of our projects wearing stab-proof vests because they live in such fear of attack. You can quote all the reports you like telling me 'it's getting better', but gangs are still there and people are still being seriously wounded and are dying. I still meet mothers grieving and utterly inconsolable at the deaths of their children. But these days such loss of life seems to attract far less attention from the media and politicians.

The vain hope that police can sort out gangs on their own, and the positive diversion of the Olympics this summer, has resulted in us losing focus on what is really required. These young men and women are not born angry, as violent gang members. Family breakdown, poverty, poor housing, addiction, educational failure, crime, violence and unemployment create gang members. The prime minister recently rightly called for "tough but intelligent justice". I would call for equally "tough and intelligent engagement" that deals with these root issues, offers positive relationships and role-models, and provides alternatives that lead to a long-term, sustainable answer to gangs.
Patrick Regan is the founder of youth engagement charity XLP and the author of Fighting Chance: Tackling Britain's Gang Culture Topics

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The causes of gang violence are complex and cannot be solved by enforcement alone

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On 1 August 2012, an early morning phone call left me stunned and numb. One of the most amazing women I have ever worked with, who has dedicated decades of her life to working with young people in the inner city, lost her son.

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How to join a conversation on current issues.

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Go to procon.org and select a list of topics that you find interesting and would like to discuss in class.

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Use with the articles for each center. Students will copy this chart to place in their interactive notebook.

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Refer back to your chart, write an informative essay on one of the topics that you chose.

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Refer back to your chart, write a narrative essay on one of your narrative topics.

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Referring back to your list from yesterday, place an A for argumentative topics, N for narrative topics, and an I for informative topics.  Today you will pick one topic that you marked argumentative and make your claim in your writer's notebook.

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Writer's journal

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What is an argument?

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Image Credit: Jessica B., Bethesda, MD

Many people wonder why teens would think of joining a gang. There are many different of teens who join and they join for many different reasons; some of them include wanting power or having status, looking for friendship or a family, peer pressure and wanting money and other materialistic items.
Some teenagers join gangs because of family involvement. In many situations family members already in gangs often recruit other family members. If a teenagers family is not in a gang and they still join they might be seeking a family. Young teens who grow up without family support would see the gang more like their second family because of all the support and attention they are receiving that they never had before. Some even get involved with gangs because they are not getting any attention from parents. Joining a gang provides negative attention; even though it is the wrong kind of attention, the teens still see it as attention and to some teens any kind of attention is better than none.

Teenagers would also join for respect. If a kid has low self-esteem and don't feel good about themselves, they are more vulnerable to joining a gang. They tend to seek out ways in order to feel accepted. If safer options are not available, they would turn to gangs for their support. If teens have low self-esteem more than likely they don't have an identity for themselves and they won't be respected. Youths desperately search for a place to belong and gangs accept youths who don't feel loved or accepted by parents, adults and other children.

Teenagers also love the gang life because they feel rich at a young age. Many think they are going to become gang famous. Lots of youths join gangs to make fast money. Young people who are not financially stable yet because of reasons such as struggling to find a job or trying to help their parents would consider getting into a gang because it is fast and easy money that can help support themselves and their family. Financially disadvantaged young people would also rather look for a fast way to earn money. In the gang life they can participate in things like one drug deal and make enough money to get materialistic items such as clothes and sneakers than actually having a real job that would take a full months earnings. The appeal of obtaining money fast can be overwhelming for children and gangs are involved in drugs and other criminal activities that give children opportunities to get money quickly.

Teens would also want to join because of the excitement and the way television shows and movies portray it. They make it seem like gangs are fun and they provide activities and a social life. Even if teens don't watch the television shows and movies they still might think the lifestyle is fun. The reason they may think this is because they may get so caught up with the money and new friends that they don't realize that what they are doing is illegal. They might join because they don't really have the actual facts of what goes on in a gang. Many young people don't know what gangs are really about and they have a misguided sense about it. They might think they can join the gang for fun and get out whenever they please. They also might believe that joining a gang will not involve them in violence and criminal activities. Gang activities appear exciting to children, especially teens. They like to take risks and gangs provide many opportunities to take risks and find excitement. Youths would think it's fun because they enjoy living on the edge and participating in reckless activities. But often what at first appears to be fun has serious consequences.

Young people join gangs for the feeling of having power and being powerful. Even though in actuality, those having power is false. They would feel like they have power for many different reasons. One reason is that they think they would appear very intimidating to some people, such as bullies or other children they don't get along with or have had problems with them in the past. In their minds, if they join the gang they would appear tough and more acceptable to scare bullies away. Teens would lastly feel like they have power because gangs provide a false sense of protection from the law. The gangs make them feel like they will always be protected no matter what from everyone.

There are a variety of personal reasons for young people joining gangs. These reasons include the excitement of gang activity, the need to belong, peer pressure, attention, financial benefit, family tradition and a lack of realization of the hazards involved.

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Image Credit: Jessica B., Bethesda, MD Many people wonder why teens would think of joining a gang. There are many different of teens who join and they join for many different reasons; some of them include wanting power or having status, looking for friendship or a family, peer pressure and wanting money and other materialistic items. Some teenagers join gangs because of family involvement.