NEUROSCIENCE OF POVERTY: IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING

Understanding Beah’s Rehabilitation and Transformation

First Things First…

Turn in your homework – Chapter 14/15 discussion questions (before the bell rings, please)

Be in your seat by the time the bell rings

How was your long weekend?Get out your journals!

Journal # 8

What do you know about poverty? How does it affect people?

Small Groups

Number off #1-6 Get into your number groups (5 in each group;

one group of 6) Read “Neuroscience of Poverty” article

Groups 1&2 – Read Introduction Groups 3&4 – Read “The Neuroscience of

Poverty” section Groups 5&6 – Read “Implications for Educators”

section

Group Work

In your groups, you will become the “experts” of this section.

Your group will make a poster and teach the class about your section

Everyone will have a role: Discussion Leader: lead discussion about questions and

connections between article and ALWG Recorder : record answers, quotes, key information on

poster Presenter: presents poster to the class Detective: define words your group does not know

(dictionary) Locator: finds 1-2 quotations from your section of article

that are important for the class to know

Before you begin Pick roles! (I will choose roles if you cannot

come to a consensus) Everyone will begin reading their section

independently (15 mins) Then discuss what you have read (15 mins)

What are your first reactions? What is interesting? What do you agree/disagree with?

Finally, begin creating your poster (15 mins) Answer questions for your section (I will hand out during

your discussion) Present after lunch

Poster Information

Your poster must include: Title of section Two sentence summary Answers to your questions 1-2 important quotations from the article Any connections to ALWG…? (optional)

Presentations should be 2-4 minutes each.

Final Thoughts

Freewrite: Do you believe Beah’s SES affects his re-entry into education? Why or why not? Use details from both the article and the memoir.

Due at the end of class or Thursday if you need more time.

BEAH’S REHABILITATIONA Long Way Gone

What is rehabilitation?

To rehabilitate is to: to bring (someone or something) back to a

normal, healthy condition after an illness, injury, drug problem, etc.

to teach (someone or something) to live a normal and productive life

to bring (someone or something) back to a good condition

Journal # 8

We see a big change in Beah’s attitude to rehabilitation from chapter 16 to17. Why do you think that is? What has changed? Does it give you hope that he can come back from his horrible past?

Let’s Discuss

“I had come to believe people befriended only to exploit one another” (153).

Does it make sense that Beah feels this way?

What about the boys who were his friends before he joined the army?