Reporter Week 4

Tami Coy -director of the girls program Jani- Short compact girl- sabotages all bonds made at school - teen offender Cristina- Latina - five feet tall. At age 8 she drank 3-4 beers and smoked two joints and inhaled almost everyday. But the time she was a teenager she did coke. She was raped. - teen offender Cheryl - beats up Jani - teen offender Nicole- Big mouthed girl - teen offender Elena- defiant at first, now very insightful - teen offender Ric and Judy Nesbit - Parents of murdered girl Katy - help the girls realize what happenes when they do bad things. Keisha teen offender Michelle teen offender Racheal teen offender * All teen offenders has made it to the Capital Offenders Group.

Journal Week 3

I went on an ambulance call as a medic and found a man that shot himself in the head. There was dried blood all over the roof of the truck he was in. It looked like someone cut his face off and took all the bones out. It was making me sick thinking that someone could do this to themself. I never wanted to go on an ambulance call like this again. I also went on a basement fire call and as i was in there i got lost. I thought i was going to run out of oxygen. Just as I thought I was going to die in the fire, my fellow firefighters came in and found me to make my way out safely.

Web weaver Week 3

http://www.nafeco.com/ I chose this link because it shows all the different kinds of gear the firemen have to use for their differnent jobs. http://www.sparky.org/firetruck/firetruck_gallery.html I chose this link because it shows the different types of trucks that are used in fire fighting.

Web Weaver week 3

http://www.lawyershop.com/practice-areas/criminal-law/juvenile-law/crimes
I chose this Because it is all about juvenile crime and this whole book is about a place in texas that houses these children. In this facility children must tell their crime stories and life stories. in this website it states that most go unreported, and when the children tell their stories the psychollogists have to say that if it is bad they have to report it to their home town. It also states the kind of crime and this book outlines that as well/.
http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=juvenile+crime+2010&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&safe=active&cad=cbv#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=active&q=murder&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=4285b1562c76fb8e
this is a website that talks about fending of an assalent.. if someone would have known this some of the people these kids murdered or hurt would have been able to fight back..

web weaver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChN4QvbbpFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2x4KAAN27k&feature=related


these links show the danger of gang violence and relate to the book last chance in texas because the magority of kids in there have been convicted for gang violence, and explains why they do the things the do.

journal writer

ive been covicted for gang violence and am now in the capitol offenders group. i guess you can say this all started when i was a little kid i always grew up around violence. when i was 5 i woke up to my aunt screaming, when i came into the kitchen i seen my uncle standing over her after hitting her a few times saying ill do what i want this is my ****ing house. when he would leave in the morning he would chain me to a table and wouldnt let me go untill he got home in the late afternoon.

Connector, Week 2

Connector, Week 2

Text to Self:

In the book when Zac is moved to Station 1, he has to go through a complete change in scenery and the way people act around and to him. I know how this feels because i have been to 4 different schools. Each time i changed it was a completely different experience. All your familiar surroundings are gone and your surrounded by new faces. It definitely makes you feel out of place.

Text to world:This book takes about call the different emergency calls Zac goes on. This relates to the real world around us because everyday people with no real emergency call 911. The calls arew offten nothing that the fire dept. should have to bother with. Sometimes people just call to get taken to the hospital or just to get taken somewheres. They take advantage of the system.

Text to Self:When Zac is taking about peoples blood making him squeamish it reminded me of when i got hit in the head with a golf club. Seeing others peoples blood doesn't bother me, but if i see a lot of my own it makes me me feel weird. I got hit the forehead with a golf club in 2nd grade. My friend had brought it in for sports show and tell day. I was fine until i realized that i had blood running down my forehead. The instant I knew that i got all light headed and dizzy, just like Zac does in the book.

connector Week 2

i understand how johnnie feels because i was picked on for a few years of school and i know how hard it is to cope with people who dont like you. it is a struggle everyday to even have the will to get out of bed to go to school.

in a way johnnie is also misunderstood he had a rough childhood likie not knowing who his parents were or why they gave him up he reminds me of a book on Nikki Sixx he was torn apart for most of his life by not knowing who his father was so that lead him through a rough journey through life just like johnnie.

i remember hearing a story like marinas like her father abused her and her mother didnt belive her it happened to a girl in toucson except the girl in toucson didnt survive because no one belived her and she ended up taking her own life :(

Journal writer week 2

Dear Journal,
I sit in these meetings day after day, listening to my peers tell their crime and life stories. I look around to see everyone with bus cut hair and the same pants as me. Not much differnt i suppose then the life i lived outside in "the free" because in my gangs everyone wore the same colors. I am different though. I have a lettermans jacket i recieved after almost making it to states with our football . I sit here and think how messed up i have become because of the lack of mother i had as a child, or maybve it was the abuse my aunt inflicted. when we do role play i am a person i would never want to imagine again, but it is to help a peer. So i suck it up and do it,. I begin to think about the pain i have infllicted through my years, murdering, beating, and tormenting those around me.. Sadly i have wound up here, but i am hopefull to get out soon because i am in the capitol offenders group and almost all of us get off our 25 to life sentance with just a few years,, I remain gaurded but i will have to show my feelings when it is my turn. I am nervous..
Sincerely,
Me

Quote Keeper Week 1

pg 1
"For me the pole ment everything i admired about the fire department-speed, daring, an ageless tradition offered to only a select few." I think that this quote is important to the book because it expresses Zacs' feeling towards being a fireman and how difficult it is to acheive that that position.

pg 7
"Theres' no rational explanation for why im about to voluntarily throw myself into the great flaming unknown, a place my every instict tells me i should be fleeing." This quote is important because it shows just just how scarey his job actualy is and how dangerous it is.

pg 59
"Two weeks. About two weeks Timo. ... And ur cutting bread?... Hey guys! Get in here. The new kids cutting bread." This is important because it shows how weird and ritualistic firemen are.

reporter week 1

The characters of this book are, Mark who is now eighteen and when he was seventeen he murdered his girlfriend. Then there is Ronnie, his mom left him at his grandparents one night and said she would be back in the morning and that was the last time he heard of her. Then there is Tran who walked in on his uncle beating and screaming at his aunt in the kitchen and wanted to help but he couldnt because he knew he was to small. and from that night on his uncle would chain him to the kitchen table every morning while his uncle goes out.

Quote Keeper Week 1

"Fry" Pg.24
I just think that this is important in the book because in a way it shows how the boys lives has been. And it shows how they have been brought up. It also shows how society now a days doesnt care about how the launguage is and like its "slang talk."

" I felt like i was related to just about everybody in Frederick." Pg.34
I think this quote shows a lot about Marina, she felt so close to her families herritage(spanish) that she felt like everyone from her home town was family.

" Finally, I decided I must have. I blammed myself." Pg.39
I think this is very relavent to what kids do all the time in real life. Lets say the parents got a devorce a lot of kids think its their faults and they get down on themselves.

Reporter Week One

johnnie was a chinese american boy who was adopted by an american family and was incarserated for hurting his adoptive mother.he is scared and abused by peers which led to internal problems making him feel unloved.

Web Weaver. week 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick,_Oklahoma
Ronnie tells his life story, just like the rest of the boys. Ronnie dad was from Frederick Oklahoma and his mother moved there. Ronnie grew up there. And he talks about his childhood growing up there.


http://www.ehow.com/about_4598220_effects-of-gangs.html
This website exlains the effects that gangs have on people and society. Johnnie didn't fit in school and was made fun of all the time. So when gang members acted like they were his friends he began hanging out with them and following them. The gang made Johnnie steal his grandpa's car for a drive by. The gang effected his life and influenced him to make made decsions and effected his life.

Reporter Week 1

In Working Fire Zac Unger the main character see's an ad for being a firefighter at a bus stop after some encouragement he decides to join. Shona Zac's girlfriend encourages Zac throughout his training at the training tower to stick with it and not give up. Zac's intructor at the training tower was Captain Gold and he pushed everyone thrugh by being really strict. Zac made some friends at the tower and one of them was Antoine he was a strong and smart man when it came to firefighting. In Zac's group was one of three women from the tower Mary Mills she made it up until there was week left then she was removed. Zac's mother always was nevous about Zac's adveturous decisions but she wanted him to apply for the job to be a firefighter. When Zac got a job at Station nine the senior firefighter Reggie gave Zac trouble about being the new kid. One man named Tracy came to Station nine to cover for some that left for the day and he taught Zac some more of what he knew, he also led Zac through his first fire. Alan a new person to Station nine but not to firefighting helped Zac learn to not take the abuse he takes from the guys that have been there and to not get into the troublesome routine.

Connector week 1

TEXT TO SELF - A lot of these boys have had a mother abandon them and a father mostly not in their life. I relate because we got taken away from my mom so i know what its like to feel abandonment there. But my dad stepped up so i dont have an absent father.

TEXT TO WORLD - everyday on the news you hear about juvenile offenders. In the book it talks about murders, drug dealers, rapists.. thats all reality to everyone in the world. We are faced with this in our state even our community.

TEXT TO WORLD - In the book a part talks about a boy who killed his sixteen year old girlfriend. It is like a story in the news now about a boy we all know, that used to go to Holley. Even though it wasnt his girlfriend he still murdered a young girl.