Assignment #3

In the chapter you read for last night, George talks about moving into his own place in Newark. He relays his experience being robbed at gun point, he talks about having his old friends over, and he shares that many of his old friends were "as deep into the streets as I was into school" (189). In many ways George is the pride of his entire neighborhood, but he says he felt weird going to school with people so priviledged and then returning home to a neighborhood filled with people struggling.

George allowed many people to move in with him- he felt he owed them at least that considering how lucky he was. Many of these people, however, were not always good influences in his life.At the end of the chapter, George talks about how uncomfortable he was the first time he had to wear a tie- a requirement of one of his professors.



Today on your blog you have a few options. Pick TWO (only two) to write about in detail. They are all connected to the experiences George shared in this chapter. When you are finished, visit the blogs of your group members and leave a comment on their blogs. Your comment may be an agreement or disagreement, a question, a connection you make to your own life, etc.Option One:


Write one paragraph about a place or an event that has influenced who you are. Why is/was this place or event so important? How did it shape your morals or beliefs? Be sure you include a topic sentence, specific examples that support your topic sentence, and a final concluding sentence that wraps up your ideas.



when i was in 14 i lived in burnsville. It was one off the places i like it to be. I had alot of friands bout when moved to edina everything has became differendt. I did not know any one cuz all of my friands were in burnsville. So i being to thing how can i make new friands. So i get to know some bout there influenc were bad. So i toll tham that there were not good friands to have and to be with. they influence me to be a bad person if tho i was not that person. this was one of the things i get it from it never be tolled to do something you do not went to do. Be who you are and do what you need to do. It shaped my morals in big way, in life people do not know what they have intel they lose it. So i get some new friands that were good and we get it good.

Assignment 2

Respond to the following question. Your answer should be at least one full, well-written paragraph. Explain your answers. Why do you think what you think?1.
In the selection called "Peer Pressure" George states that "friends have more influence on one another's lives than almost anyone else does, especially in those teenage years when kids are trying to discover who they really are. So hooking up with the wrong crowd can really get you down."
Do you agree with his comments? Why or why not? Have you seen other people try to pressure their friends to do things? (Good or bad) Have you felt pressure to behave in certain ways because of your friends? WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED: Visit the blogs of your group members, read their comments, and leave one comment in which you agree or disagree with something they say (and explain why) or ask them a question about their response.

I thing that George is saying that he was not sceard of his friends bout sceard of the disrespeact that he had so there are alot of things he is going. i thing that in our time there are alot of people who are a big thing in the kids heads

Assignment 1

1. Why do you think Rameck made the choices he did?becous of what he was in as his life get herd and thats why. He knew right from wrong, so what motivated him to choose the "wrong" path as a teen? that was what he was in as his childhood that is the only thing he knows to do. 2.Considering both his parents were drug addicts, was he really responsible for his actions? Explain your opinion.if you have good family to be there with you when you need them there then you will have a good life bout he did not have all the his parents were drug addicts so what do you thing . 3. Are young people responsible for their actions if they have no good role models or people to teach them the right way to live? no that why young people are that way in live we do everything we can do to get as what we need to surive. 4. Who are the biggest influences in your own life? In what ways have they shaped you? What have they taught you? in my life my family is everything to me if it was it for them i would have been doing things i would not like .