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March 27, 2006

Week 10

For this week, I'm asking you to write a little more specific post as a way of sharing your topic ideas with the class. Briefly answer the following questions:
1. How would you describe the topic you plan on researching? Try to do it in a few sentences.
2. What are the main things you want to know more about with this topic?
3. How is this topic connected to life in north Minneapolis or, even better, the site where you're working?
4. What's the best source you've found so far on this topic? What makes it helpful?

The topic i'm mainly focus on is gangs. Not just gangs itself but the causes and effect of it. Also i want it to involved with teens and drug trafficking. Why are teens joining gangs and selling drug at the same times. That is main focus. This connects with north Minneapolis is because north minn. is known for the shooting and killling. This doesnt tie my topic and my site but learning about violence, i have a better sense of what gangs are about and help others to avoid it as best as they can. I just recently check out a book at Wilson Library on Juvenile Gang. What really interesting about this book is because of the drug trafficking teens are doing when they are in gangs. It struck me that if selling drug at a early age, most likely you are gonna be a big drug leader. Selling drugs and being in the gang is almost like a cycle. It repeat itself over and over again. How? It starts when they are in their teens. They join a gang for one reason, to earn fast cash for selling drug. they get big on selling drug and recuit more teens to do more selling.

March 6, 2006

What's happening at your sites? Any news to report from the previous week? Are there particular interactions or experiences that you'd like to share? If not, feel free to reflect here on how you feel your third essay is going.


What going on at the site? well the same as usual. We help the the students(immigrant) learn english step by step. but then last week, pheng and i focus on one on one conversation with the student. The student i had was around her late thirty's and knew a quite bit of english already. Her reading skills was good and she was learning at an outstanding pace. And on my third essay, it was much harder to put it on paper. I didnt know where to start and i didnt know how. So my essay is pretty much what was going on and what wanted out of learning english. I had to understand what the lead coordinator was saying and also from what the student point of view was. this paper i believe is our hardest is because, we dont know much about the person i'm tutoring but i have a little sense of what she wanted in life. and that is to know more english.