How competing accounts of an event shape identity, belonging, and responsibility
Students read an original composition about two students comparing the stories their school tells about belonging, alongside a clearly labeled classroom paraphrase and close reading of Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All American Boys (2015). They examine how the novel's alternating narrators reveal the pressure of public labels, how witnessing and silence shape identity, and why a community must question the stories it repeats about race, safety, and justice.
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