The author Wes Moore(Julia Asadourian and Kiersten Stewart) by 2023Julia Asadourian https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl Timeline of crucial events en-us 2021-04-06 15:10:10 UTC 2021-04-16 16:25:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Wes and his dad are extremely gifted and intelligent, his dad had told him to never punch women. This was one of the two memories Wes had of his father. 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1387643755 2021-04-06 15:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1387643755 1984- His mom, Joy, and sister move to New York, the bronx, into his grandparents house because Joy is not doing well with her husbands death 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1387690640 2021-04-06 15:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1387690640 Wes starts to play basketball and make new friends in this area but soon realizes that his grandparents are even stricter than his mom. 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1387707602 2021-04-06 15:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1387707602 "He died on a Friday night. We were told at first that the hospital wouldn't be able to determine the cause of his death until Monday, when they would preform the autopsy."(Moore 15) 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1387921529 2021-04-06 16:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1387921529 1984-Joy decides to move all her children to a private all white school and Wes becomes friends with Justin, the only other black kid 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1392227043 2021-04-07 16:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1392227043 Wes is struggling to keep up in both his lives in the neighborhood and school and his grades are slipping 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1392231869 2021-04-07 16:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1392231869 1990- Wes and friend Shea got caught by the police for graffiti but the police give them a second chance and Wes goes back to doing it again 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1392236683 2021-04-07 16:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1392236683 1991- Wes' grades were slipping and he was put on academic probation and to add on Shani started crying because Wes accidentally punched her in the mouth. Joy was furious and slapped Wes across the face and decided that she needed to send him to military school. 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1400251959 2021-04-09 15:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1400251959 A few days after arriving to military school Wes cannot take it and tries to escape many times and also get tricked by his classmates. The principle allows Wes to call his mom but Joy refuses to pick him up. 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1400258900 2021-04-09 15:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1400258900 Wes is now enjoying military school and starts to play basketball for his school and is talking about different colleges he wants to go to. 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1408183605 2021-04-12 16:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1408183605 Wes and his friend Dalio travel off campus to get some food and are harassed by a car on their way there. The driver threw things at them and nearly hit them with the car. This makes Wes wonder if he is being ignorant to the outside world from the military school. 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1408187587 2021-04-12 16:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1408187587 1997- Wes has decided that he wants to join the army and attend valley forge junior college. He has an odd flashback that results in him realizing what he wants in life. 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1408204327 2021-04-12 16:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1408204327 1997- Wes has just finished his second internship with the mayor of Baltimore and found out he got accepted to John Hopkins University. He then starts to look for scholarships (Rhodes Scholarship). 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1425762428 2021-04-16 14:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1425762428 2000-Wes spends a semester in South Africa where he sees a lot of poverty and discrimination and categories life in Baltimore as "Lived like kings" 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1425767958 2021-04-16 15:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1425767958 Wes' host Zinzi is going into manhood and is going to get circumcised with his peers. This is surprising to Wes as they are celebrating going into manhood unlike in Baltimore where manhood was feared. 99602611 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1425780067 2021-04-16 15:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1425780067 1982- Wes' dad died of acute epiglotitis, which the hospital misdiagnosed as something that didn't need medical attention; his body suffocated itself 9959676 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1425948423 2021-04-16 15:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1425948423 He becomes a paratrooper to complete his prerequisites for becoming a regimental commander-- he was one of the youngest officers in the entire military 9959676 https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1426170135 2021-04-16 16:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/99602611/70xi8c8qmw7tbjbl/wish/1426170135