1. Summary (15 lines)
2. The explicit : (15 lines)
A. The article raises the issue of education in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Pick out 3 quotations in the text which show that Keri lives in a disadvantaged neighbourhood
What can you say about Phillips High School ? (1 line)
Why was the school seen as a positive force ? (3 lines)
What can you say about Bronzeville ? (3 lines)
http://www.urban-juncture.com/chicagocasestudy.htm
B. What are the dangers facing Keri if he fails in school ?
a. Truancy. (use the text + internet)
What is the relationship between truancy and crime ?
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/chrispress/truancy.htm
b. street gangs and violence
What is a street gang ? Why would you join a gang ?
http://www.focusas.com/Gangs.html http://blog.oregonlive.com/hillsboroargus/2010/02/gang_members_feel_theres_no_wa.html
3. The implicit : the journalist’s point of view (15 lines)
1. Explain why the journalist criticizes the spending cutbacks : money makes a difference. Quote to justify
2. He compares the situation in the 1960s and nowadays. Explain
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4810
3. By keeping its kids off the street, the school is serving moral purposes. Which ones ?
4. Opinion
Do you think that there is a link between low-income families and the lack of education ?
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_685.html
Do you think the journalist is being too pessimistic ? Quote and discuss
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BREAKING OUT correction
Summary
Pedro and Louis / Marina Y Gracioso / Eduardo and Jardel / Juan and Juan
Philips high school is an alternative school witch helps students from the underclass.The article deals with a coversation between mr.lovelace and one of his students about how to leave the ghetto and make her dreams come to. Keri is a student at Philips High School, an alternative high school. He is from a poor neighbourhood. He is a bright student, and thanks to this school, he can get out from the ghetto. The narrator, Sylvester Monroe, was a former pupil, and he had the same teacher as Keri, who is Mr Lovelace. The narrator achieved his dream to get out, and Keri is hopeful that he will succeed too.
Students skip school because of the peer pressure of the whole neighbourhood, tempteed.
In the 60's the school was look as a positive force for black people. Things have changed. Nowadays, it is a school where students usually skip class.
Keri has got troubles at home. He comes from a broken home. he comes from a single parent family. he's got two brothers, he wants to set an example for them. Both his mother and the teacher is supportive.
The school is going to help him get out of the ghetto and improve his life. Kery sees the schools as something positive to improve his future. He doesn't want to be condicioned by his background
Kery describes in the third part where he's living. Obviously, it's depressing, there are homeless people living in this drug infested neighborhood : the inner city is not safe.
(Claudia) The article raises the issue of education in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, and the journalist tells us the story of a couple guys in this situations. One of them is Keri : Keri is “hoping a scholarship to college will help him break free of the guetto”; “I want to make something of myself. I don't just want to be another victim of the guetto”; “the apartment he shares with her mother and two younger brothers is anything but encouraging […] it's very depressing” Phillips High School it´s a really encouraging center who actually give some hope to the guetto students: most of the teachers care about their pupils. Thousands of Phillips High School graduates routinely went on to successfull carreers.
(Bea) The article raises the issues of education in disadvantage neighborhoods.
“he is hoping a scholarship to college will him break free of the ghetto.” “ the short two-block walk to school from the small, spartan apartment he shares with his mother and two younger brothers is anything but encouraging. Boarded-up windows, piles of bricks from collapsed buildings, burned-out...“ if the school does close, he says, he might hostile gangs to attend school in another neighborhood.” Those sentences emphasize the issues of the inner-city underclass and imply that Keri lives in a disadvantaged neighborhood.
2/ The explicit (Louis)
A. The article raises the issue of education in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. "The black Chicago community where I grew up". "Boarded-up windows, pilles of bricks from collapsed buildings, burned-out vacants lotsand bustling liquor stores are all that's left of the neighbourhood he calls home". "I don't want them to end up victims of the streets".
The challenges and opportunities of Chicago’s Bronzeville community are similar to those of many inner city communities. Despite a rich history of vibrant black commerce and culture, the Bronzeville economy is a shambles, jobs are scarce, quality retail is absent, and most Bronzeville residents are poor, un- or underemployed, and subject to rates of illness and crime far above that of the broader population.
B. The dangers facing Keri if he fails in school are:
a) Truancy: Youth who are truant greatly increase their risk for dropping out of school. And high-school dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, on welfare, or to end up in prison than students who graduate from high school or college.
b) Street gangs and violence: Some of the reasons for joining a gang may include:A search for love, structure, and discipline. A sense of belonging and commitment. The need for recognition and power. Companionship, training, excitement, and activities. A sense of self-worth and status. A place of acceptance. The need for physical safety and protection. A family tradition.
2) EXPLICIT (Laura)
The article raises the issue of education in disaventaged neighbourhoods:
#The short two-block walk to school from the small, spartan apartment he shares with his mother and two younger brothers is anything but encouraging.
#Boarded-up windows, piles of bricks from collapsed buildings, burned-out vacant lots and bustling liquor stores are all that's left of the neighborhood he calls home.
#"If you look at all the abandoned businesses and you see all the homeless people, it's very depressing," he says.
Phillips High school is an alternative which helps students from the underclass. ''This High school does do a lot for this community''. The school is seen as a positive force because it take care about the students who wanted to make something with themselves. It motivates the kids in school and pushed many of them to think of a future. Bronzeville was considered as the ''Black Metropolis'' of business and culture. It was a primary destination point for blacks migrating from the south in search for a job
2. The explicit (Juan)
A_ In the text there are some signs that show that Keri lives in a disadvantaged neighborhood like: “Boarded-up windows, piles of bricks from collapsed buildings, burned-out vacant lots and bustling liquor stores are all that’s left of their neighborhood he calls home”, or “If you look at the abandoned businesses and you see all the homeless people, it’s very depressing”, and “we both lived in public housing”.Phillips High School is an alternative school in the centre of the “Bronxville”, it helps the youngest that want to get out of this poor situation.
The school is seen positive by the students because they saw it as an opportunity to get out of the ghetto. It’s also seen positive by the teachers because they feel good because they are helping the youngest to become something in life.
Bronxville is a kind of suburb in the centre of Chicago. It’s a really poor neighborhood drug infested with dangerous gangs and not recommended to visit.
(Eduardo):
A-the article raises the issue of education in disavantaged neighbourhoods
“He is hoping a scholarship to college will help him break free of the ghetto” , “Boarded-up windows, piles of bricks from collapsed buildings, burned-out vacant lots and bustling liquor stores are all that's left of the neighborhood he calls home.” and "If you look at all the abandoned businesses and you see all the homeless people, it's very depressing" those quotations show that keri lives in a disavantaged neighbourhood.
Philips high school is an alternative school wich helps students from the underclass to avoid engaging in delinquent behaviours and to find a way out of the ghetto.
The school is seen as a positive force because instead of not taking care of their students interest they really are concerned by them. They try to improve their students standart of live even if its actually very dificult because of their situation remind that the school is located in a chicago inner city.
Bronzeville is a neighbourhood that becomes an inner city through the 60's, when the state eliminate the restrictive housing convenants and they build up an expresssway line wich acted as an effective barrier.
A-the article raises the issue of education in disavantaged neighbourhoods
“He is hoping a scholarship to college will help him break free of the ghetto” , “Boarded-up windows, piles of bricks from collapsed buildings, burned-out vacant lots and bustling liquor stores are all that's left of the neighborhood he calls home.” and "If you look at all the abandoned businesses and you see all the homeless people, it's very depressing" those quotations show that keri lives in a disavantaged neighbourhood.
Philips high school is an alternative school wich helps students from the underclass to avoid engaging in delinquent behaviours and to find a way out of the ghetto.
The school is seen as a positive force because instead of not taking care of their students interest they really are concerned by them. They try to improve their students standart of live even if its actually very dificult because of their situation remind that the school is located in a chicago inner city.
Bronzeville is a neighbourhood that becomes an inner city through the 60's, when the state eliminate the restrictive housing convenants and they build up an expresssway line wich acted as an effective barrier.
(Javier Rico)
Breaking out is newspaper article deals with a conservation between Mr.Lovelace and a young student boy (Keri Wingo) of the school Philips high school.They talk about dysfunctional families. Keri explains how a young boy who lives in a very poor and miserable neighborhood can start to takes contact with gangs , drugs , and criminal situations .
quotations : ``collapsed buildings , burned-out vacant lots and busting liquor stores are all that´s left of the neighborhood he calls home ´´.
Philips High School is a positive force by students. Some of them are inspired to learn and work thanks the teachers of this school , because they motivate students and they get those teenagers don´t drop out of school. Bronzeville is a disadvantaged neihgborhood , where is very difficult to survive...
quotations : ``collapsed buildings , burned-out vacant lots and busting liquor stores are all that´s left of the neighborhood he calls home ´´.
Philips High School is a positive force by students. Some of them are inspired to learn and work thanks the teachers of this school , because they motivate students and they get those teenagers don´t drop out of school. Bronzeville is a disadvantaged neihgborhood , where is very difficult to survive...
(Marina)
A. Keri lives in "a public housing projetcs, in a single-parent family". He lives in a ghetto, that's why he is why he is worried about his brothers, he doesn't want them "to end up victims of the streets". The narrator knows that "today being a young black on this desolate neighbourhood is a serious liability".
Philips High School is situated in Bronzeville, an inner city community in Chicago, where lives the underclass. There's a lot of poverty, it's a drug-infested neighbourhood and lots of teenargers get engaged in delinquent behaviours.
We know that Phillips High School works hard for its students, they insist a lot on not to skip class and they are implicated on the student's problems. For exemple, when "Keri's grades slipped during his first semester, Mr. Lovelace landed on him with both feet." That's why a lot of students "look upon this school as a positive force".
Bronzeville has a rich history of vibrant black commerce and culture, it was the destination point for blacks migrating from the south in the 1930’s and 1940’s, they moved to Chicago in search of opportunity. But now it has become a ghetto where most residents are poor, jobless or underemployed.
B. Youth who are truant greatly increase their risk for dropping out of school, because truants use to fall in drugs addictions. Truants don't stay at home, they go on the streets and meet gangs that drive them to crime and engage them to an anti-social behaviour. Also, the police can catch truants, to skip class is a crime on the United States. This people would have a lot of problems losing the class learning, so high-school dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, on welfare, or to end up in prison than students who graduate from high school or college. That's why Mr Lovelace insists a lot on not to skip class.
A. Keri lives in "a public housing projetcs, in a single-parent family". He lives in a ghetto, that's why he is why he is worried about his brothers, he doesn't want them "to end up victims of the streets". The narrator knows that "today being a young black on this desolate neighbourhood is a serious liability".
Philips High School is situated in Bronzeville, an inner city community in Chicago, where lives the underclass. There's a lot of poverty, it's a drug-infested neighbourhood and lots of teenargers get engaged in delinquent behaviours.
We know that Phillips High School works hard for its students, they insist a lot on not to skip class and they are implicated on the student's problems. For exemple, when "Keri's grades slipped during his first semester, Mr. Lovelace landed on him with both feet." That's why a lot of students "look upon this school as a positive force".
Bronzeville has a rich history of vibrant black commerce and culture, it was the destination point for blacks migrating from the south in the 1930’s and 1940’s, they moved to Chicago in search of opportunity. But now it has become a ghetto where most residents are poor, jobless or underemployed.
B. Youth who are truant greatly increase their risk for dropping out of school, because truants use to fall in drugs addictions. Truants don't stay at home, they go on the streets and meet gangs that drive them to crime and engage them to an anti-social behaviour. Also, the police can catch truants, to skip class is a crime on the United States. This people would have a lot of problems losing the class learning, so high-school dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, on welfare, or to end up in prison than students who graduate from high school or college. That's why Mr Lovelace insists a lot on not to skip class.
MARINA GARCIA-GRANERO (And Alejandro Gracia)
ResponderEliminar2. The explicit.
A. Keri lives in "a public housing projetcs, in a single-parent family". He lives in a ghetto, that's why he is why he is worried about his brothers, he doesn't want them "to end up victims of the streets". The narrator knows that "today being a young black on this desolate neighbourhood is a serious liability".
Philips High School is situated in Bronzeville, an inner city community in Chicago, where lives the underclass. There's a lot of poverty, it's a drug-infested neighbourhood and lots of teenargers get engaged in delinquent behaviours.
We know that Phillips High School works hard for its students, they insist a lot on not to skip class and they are implicated on the student's problems. For exemple, when "Keri's grades slipped during his first semester, Mr. Lovelace landed on him with both feet." That's why a lot of students "look upon this school as a positive force".
Bronzeville has a rich history of vibrant black commerce and culture, it was the destination point for blacks migrating from the south in the 1930’s and 1940’s, they moved to Chicago in search of opportunity. But now it has become a ghetto where most residents are poor, jobless or underemployed.
B. Youth who are truant greatly increase their risk for dropping out of school, because truants use to fall in drugs addictions. Truants don't stay at home, they go on the streets and meet gangs that drive them to crime and engage them to an anti-social behaviour. Also, the police can catch truants, to skip class is a crime on the United States. This people would have a lot of problems losing the class learning, so high-school dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, on welfare, or to end up in prison than students who graduate from high school or college. That's why Mr Lovelace insists a lot on not to skip class.
eduardo
ResponderEliminarTIME BREAKING OUT
2. The explicit :
A-the article raises the issue of education in disavantaged neighbourhoods
“He is hoping a scholarship to college will help him break free of the ghetto” , “Boarded-up windows, piles of bricks from collapsed buildings, burned-out vacant lots and bustling liquor stores are all that's left of the neighborhood he calls home.” and "If you look at all the abandoned businesses and you see all the homeless people, it's very depressing" those quotations show that keri lives in a disavantaged neighbourhood.
Philips high school is an alternative school wich helps students from the underclass to avoid engaging in delinquent behaviours and to find a way out of the ghetto.
The school is seen as a positive force because instead of not taking care of their students interest they really are concerned by them. They try to improve their students standart of live even if its actually very dificult because of their situation remind that the school is located in a chicago inner city.
Bronzeville is a neighbourhood that becomes an inner city through the 60's, when the state eliminate the restrictive housing convenants and they build up an expresssway line wich acted as an effective barrier.
3. The implicit (Inés)
ResponderEliminarThe journalist debunks the myth of gangs. Indeed, we can learn that the gang does not protect you, because even if they are a group of people, if there is any problem each person will look for himself. And when someone jump into a gang, he will have more probabilites to suffer any violence or to be injured, because he will be in troubles all the time, with the police, the rivals... Being in a gang greatly increases your chances to be a target for rival gang members. Moreover, joining a gang does not mean you have new friends, because the gang will increase the number of enemies you have. And those mates are not "friends", because normally, a friend doesn't force you to commit crimes. Finally, we can see that it's hard to get out of a gang through this question: "Don't you know what would happen to me if I just told my gang I want out?" That shows us how scared is Jimmy thinking about to get out of the gang, and it shows us how hard it is. The de-initiation shows us how hard is to get out of a gang too, because it's very dangerous and you can finish in the hospital, the morgue... "You make a commitment, and it's lifelong", so you can hardly get out. We can see other messages conveyed in the text, as one of them, which is adressed to the parents: You have to be informed of your child's life, friends... Parents have to be more protectors to prevent this kind of things. Another message conveyed in the text is that it's possible to get out of the gang, even if it's very hard, but firstlty you have to stay out of gangs, to prevent those problems.
Beatriz Roman
ResponderEliminarThe implicit: the journalist's point of view
1)
The journalist criticizes the spending cutbacks because nowadays “that kind of support has been decimated”. This sentence highlights the idea that the government remove all the community's social and economic infraestructure for the least disadvantaged, for those people who live in a drug-infested neighbourhood, and where the child can not find their way out of the ghetto.
“Today is much harder for students to move up while everynthing else is collapsing around them.” This sentece emphasizes the idea that nowadays those students have less chances to succedd in their lives because the social and economic infraestuctures were vanished. Those students are more likely to commit a crime, to be accused, they find difficult to see the school as something positive to improve their future.
NOT FINISHHHH!!!!!!!
(claudia) BREAKING OUT
ResponderEliminarThe implicit:
The journalist criticizes the spending cutbacks, because the money can make the difference in the disadvantaged neighbourhoods. And these children are those who need more economic helps due to their situation (broken homes, they live in poverty, they engage in delinquent behaviours...): “in my 10 years in Chicago public schools, i never missed a class because of teachers' strike or budget deficit. But […] Keri has had to wonder whether his school would open on time. Five times it did not”
MARINA GARCIA-GRANERO
ResponderEliminar2 AND 3.
The jurnalists criticizes the spending cutbacks because they brought a lot of devastating consequences. Back in the sixties, they had some economic support, the governement created some student social centers, and numerous community-based programs. On the other hand, « today that kind of support has been decimated by budget cutbacks, and the community's social and economic infrastructure has all but vanised ». Now they just don't have the funds for keeping the students involved. They have lost all those positive things they had on the 1960's. « Back then, it had 4,000 students (…) Today, with enrollment down to only 1,71 there is talk of closing. ». There's a lot of abandoned business and homeless people, Keri finds this very depressing.
Money makes a difference because this kind of neighbourhoods always need state grants, such after-hours programs to keep kids off the streets. The school is serving moral purposes such as the importance of hard work and to be a good citizen. In years past, thousands of Phillips High School graduates routinely want on successful careers. Today it is much harder and 57% Douglas-Grand Boulevard commmunity live in poverty, insted of 36.1% who lived in 1970. Here we see the consequences of the budget cutbacks. This prevents pupils to make their dreams come true.
I think there is a link between low-income families and the lack of education because depending on the neighbourhood, the school is different, depending on the funds they have. The family is also very important because they have to teach their children the value of hard work.
The Implicite/ opinion:
ResponderEliminarThe Journalist criticizes the spending cutbacks because he come fromm the poorest social class and he understand, that social budget can be amplified to attend the needs of working class ''where is the community services?'', to improve their quality of lives. There are many social welfare wich are made to help them.
Nowadays the Neo-Liberalism is the dominant economic structure, in the contrary at 60's keynesanism was the most popular economic structure, this argue for the social welfare.
School serve very important moral purposes, like be cultured, educated. School try to transform teenagers to normal adults, to prevent from outsiders.
In mi opinion social help is necesary to make the diference into a developed society and one wich is not. This help finish with gangs and truancy but not from strict modes, but by the moral ( helped by money)...
edu
ResponderEliminar3-THE EXPLICIT
The journalist criticizes the spending cutbacks which affect the public education,in some way it's not fair the most part of rich people can spend in private education but poor people not, and they are the ones who need even more this education.They need to improve their standard of living not like the priviledged and they can live on their parents wealth, they have to find their way up the social ladder by theyselves.Remind that the US is the place where a person is supposed to become that they want with hard work... the american dream.
“Im my 10 years in Chicago public schools, I never missed a single day of class because of a teachers' strike or budget deficit.”
He compares the situation in th 60's and nowadays because we are supposed to evolve to the best and not to the worse. And thats what he points out that in forty years the education is even worse.
The implicit.
ResponderEliminarThe journalist's point of view about this text is a critical viewpoint about the spending cutbaks. " Today that kind of support has been decimated by budget cutbacks, and the community's social and economic infrastructure has all vanished."
The Philips High School is situated in a neighood very poor. Where on the first hand not all people go to class, and the other hand the people who go to class end up to skip class for consume drugs and be with the differents gangs. The fact of the spending cutbacks is a problem because the school can not open its doors. " Today there often isn't even enough money to ensure that the schools open at all."
Money do a dfference between the '50s and the '60s. According Kari, " inhis 10 years in Chicago publics schools, i never missed a single day of class because of a teachers' strike or budget deficit."
The situation in the 1960s the governement had thougth a lot of porejects for the differents ghettos and poor neighood but all this problems and projects not were made. And teh only do with dis problems is a social separation (black people / white )
3)The implicit (laura)
ResponderEliminarThe message the author is trying to convey is that the spending cutbacks on the streets of chicago is damaging the social education of the young problem kids = troublemakers. In this case, Phillips high school probably cannot give some opprtunities to keep kids off the street. He shows that they must to climb up the social ladder by theyselves. They must to improve they standard of living without parents'help.
''In my 10 years in Chicago public schools, I never missed a single day of class because of a teachers' strike or budget deficit.''
The difference between 1960 and nowadays is the money. The budget on the street is not enougth, so the black are more vulnerable at unemployement.
The explicit :victoire
ResponderEliminarB. Initiation
The intitation rites consist in doing something bad for to prove that you are enough brave for to be part of their gang group “time to prove your stuff by shooting some rivals”
For example to steal a car and take it for do something illegal like to shot to an other group or gang. More you are violent more you are accepted because they see you stronger
The journalist criticizes the spending cutbacks because in the past ( in 1970), the government used to support the students, poor schools, they gave help to social centers and did things to urge = encoursage students to get out to the poverty like this the poverty line was 36.1% in 1970 but nowadays all of the helps or a lot of them was eliminate. The education was worst and young people have more dificults to get out the ghetto. Actually poverty line was 57% , a lot of this residents rest in the poverty.
ResponderEliminarIn the 1960s the only possibility to black people to left the ghetto and success was to study at school. And the government helps them to have a better life giving helps to school centers.
Students take the school very seriously. But now students are in gangs in lot of case.
Alex Tes
3. The implicit
ResponderEliminarThe only thing that a gang want is to get disoriented young boys to join them and make a bigger group. They really don't protect you but on the contrary they expose people to dangers. Beeing in a gang bang make rivality and provoque the agressivness on youngs. They are usually comiting crimes , dealing drugs and fighting with rival gangs for exemple. They are always unsafe. There, everyone look for his own security.
Into a gang, nobody can be your fried. That's what the journalist argue by an exemple, Jimmy's case. In the gang, they force yongs to do something criminal or contrary to the law. The guys that gat the gang, did that for leaving the exclusion. Beeing in a gang make you many rivals and enemies. In another hand, members of your gang maybe don't accept you to have friends outside the gang and as they are very agresive you can suffer builling or something similar.
In some cases it's hard to get out of the gang, in another cases it's easy and some youngs achieve to go to school or have a job.In Jimmy's case, he says "They did me pretty bad", for him is vry hard to leave the gang because they were very aggressie with him, "broken arm, brohen wrist, two teeth broken out...". For him the esasiest and more efficace way to leave the gang is leaving and sometimes changing your life.
Another message exposed in the text is that you will be not more respected for beeing in a gang. You can earn respect by an education of for attein goals in life. When you are in a gang people will be afraid of you but not respecting you. That kind of respect isn't real, and it doesn't last.
4. Opinion
Louis Courtial
ResponderEliminarTHE IMPLICIT
1/ The journalist crticizes the spending cutbacks because that left Bronzeville in poverty and without those helps it's impossible for this neighbourhood to get out of that situation: “In fact, money is the biggest difference between the Chicago school system I attented in the 50's and the 60's and the one keri Wingo's attends today.”
2/ The situation between the 60's and nowadays is very different. In the 60's, there were money to spend for social purposes, like Bronzeville, but now it seems like there are many other important things that need to be carry about.
3/ The moral purposes served by the school are equality, because every one deserves an education, integration, because every one deserve to be integrated correctly in the society and education, because everyone needs it.
OPINION
1/ I think that parent's low education leads to low income, despite full-time employment and in my opinion higher education is one of the most effective ways that parents can raise their families’ incomes. There is clear evidence that higher educational attainment is associated with higher earnings. Over the past two decades, parents with less education have been losing economic ground. Policies that support education for low-income parents and children offer them the potential for lasting economic security.
2/ It's obvious that the journalist is trying to be optimistic by explaining his own and Keri's situation, but in fact there are isolated examples, there are important troubles in the American education system, and even more in black communities like Bronzeville. It's very hard to get out of the guetto no matter what he says.
3. The implicit: the journalist’s point of view (juan)
ResponderEliminar1_ The journalist Sylvester Monroe criticizes the spending cutbacks because he says that not everything is lost in the ghettos, the disadvantaged neighborhood youngest also deserve a chance to succeed in life and get out of the ghetto.