The Other Wes Moore

Related Texts to The Other Wes Moore

• James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time

• Colin Powell’s My American Journey

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (the experiences of a young Native American boy at an all-white school)

• Shaka Senghor’s memoir Writing My Wrongs (the personal transformation the author underwent while serving a 19-year prison sentence for murder)

• Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me (the author’s experience growing up in West Baltimore during the same period as the Wes Moores)

• Jeff Hobbs’ The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (the true story of a young African-American man who managed to escape the streets of Newark for Yale)

Trivial Aspects of The Other Wes Moore

• During his time at Johns Hopkins, Moore founded an organization called STAND! that works with young people in Baltimore caught up in the criminal justice system.

Resources

• Choices and Expectations

• Anatomy of a News Story Activity

• Up Close Reading Organizer

• Teacher's Lesson for The Other Wes Moore

• PBS NewsHour