The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

As we continue our study of "Dangerous Stories," we begin two new texts this week. In Honors English, we are reading The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. I had the opportunity to hear Wes Moore speak last spring at an event organized by the organization Facing History and Ourselves. Junior ChiArts Scholar-artist Cuixi has served on Facing History's Student Leadership Team and was one of four students to sit onstage with Wes and pose a question.



Cuixi asked, "What did military school have to offer that your mother couldn't?"

I wish you had been there to hear Wes Moore's response, how he honors his mother yet acknowledges that a mother can only do so much, especially when raising a son, that a son needs an adult male role model, just as a daughter needs an adult female role model.

Please click on the link below to hear Wes Moore share his story, as he explains why he felt called to write this book. As he said when he spoke with us last spring, he did not want to write this book--it was the "other" Wes who compelled him to write it.

See "Class Links" for a link to author Wes Moore's website.