Ven diagram notes on Author Wes, Other Wes, and your personal experiences in childhood. What language is used to describe each character? How do we, as readers, draw conclusions about each character? Subsequently, students will “expand the center” by acknowledging differences and seeking similarities.
HW: Have your copy of The Other Wes Moore in class tomorrow. And continue reading TOWM all week.

Discussion 1: Who is Author Wes? Who is Other Wes? Large group discussion of Part 1. Students should hold on to these notes, until we have finished all three large group discussions, at which time I will collect your notes in one packet.
HW: Continue reading part two of TOWM.

Reading an article by Brian Jones, “Growing Up Black in America: Here’s My Story of Everyday Racism” from the US edition of The Guardian.
HW: You should have reading through page 62 for class tomorrow, having finished part one.

Discussion of part two of The Other Wes Moore. What are the support systems that both Author Wes and Other Wes have? What role models do they have? What avenues to improvement to the benefit from? And if opportunity never knocks, how can we—as a society—proved opportunities where none exist?
HW: Reading part three of TOWM

Reading Reginald McNight’s short story, “The Kind of Light that Shines in Texas.” We will start with some simple context to Texas and school segregation in America, 1960s, and then read the story aloud, together.
HW: Reading The Other Wes Moore.