Place in the same city — how refusing to flatten a story can refuse to flatten a place
Students read a teen narrator’s account of reading Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely’s All American Boys alongside a paraphrase of two chapters — the Carter’s convenience-store scene, where Officer Paul Galluzzo beats Rashad while Quinn watches, and the day Rashad returns to school. Together the texts examine how Reynolds and Kiely’s choice to alternate the same night between Rashad and Quinn — two Chicago teens, two American positions, one city — refuses the single narration that the news cycle is already producing, and how that refusal is the unit’s essential question at the level of the U.S. classroom.
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