Everything you need to understand or teach Monster by Sanyika Shakur.
Kody Scott's story begins on June 15, 1975. He is graduating sixth grade but his pride in the day comes because it's the day he's to be initiated into a neighborhood gang, the Tray Eights, which is a "set" of the Crips. He recalls that he'd been proud of himself just weeks prior to graduation because he'd flashed a gang sign in a school photo. He says the fact that he'd done it...
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member Lesson Plans contain 159 pages of teaching material, including: