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Seeking ways to effectively mediate texts with troubled teens in troubling times is worth the investment. Text is a powerful tool for shaping positive life trajectories, especially for those teens being affected by vulnerable-producing conditions that interrupt positive human development. These conditions, coupled with poor literacy skills affecting so many of the nation's teens' ability to handle text independently, lead many youngsters to opt for deleterious criminal pathways that yield to frightening youth incarceration rates. More frightening, however, is the number of MBT Shoes school-related violent deaths and other deaths at the hands of those who surrender their life chances before they get to know their life choices. I wrote the following poem at 5:37 a.m. after a sleepless night on August 10, 2008, that captures a life lost too soon. A young man, who received a scholarship to one of Illinois' local universities, was murdered before he had an opportunity to take advantage of his scholarship: Checkmate taught me how to play chess when I was younger To make all the right moves The rooks, the knights, the pawns, the bishops I could castle and use my Queen to protect myself All of these thoughts flashed in my mind when the car pulled up beside us It's 12:15 a.m. I am eighteen, sitting on the passenger's side Nowhere to move, no strategy I thought about learning chess when I was younger The young man in the other car lifts his hands—checker hands, TIC, TAG, TOE hands I was no match for him I thought my scholarship letter would save me—it was my next move My buddies scream first I'm hit next Checkmate—game. As questions about the role of adolescent literacy continue to be raised, I offer that we ask, how can we engage teens with texts that allow them to navigate their times, some more troubling than others? It is more than a question of how to balance the literary canon with young adult literature, but how to balance Clearance MBT Shoes texts that speak to teens inside of school and outside of school in ways that help some recover, others to reconcile their identity, and all to become resilient. Our curriculum conversations will be more enriched as a result of. How can we engage teens with texts that allow them to navigate their times, some more troubling than others? This direction and hopefully students' lives will be more enriched. This will be the signaling of new times for our troubled teens.
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