Recite: Cite/ quote the words from the text. Read the article ‘‘Always Running’ is more than cholo lit — it’s a manual for L.A.’s salvation.’ Find evidence identifying instances of bias and how it might impact individuals from this author's memoir. Place the evidence on the reciting side, respond to the evidence on the conversing side.
for most of my life, I didn’t think “Always Running” was meant for someone like me.
Luis J. Rodriguez’s account of his first 18 years — from El Paso to Watts, Reseda to the Lomas barrio in South San Gabriel — has long drawn praise and criticism for its unflinching look at Chicano gang culture during the 1960s and ’70s.
Its descriptions of sex, violence and drug use continue to titillate teenage readers and draw bans from schools and libraries across the United States.
When I finally paged through a copy some time after high school, I did it mostly to see if it was as “real” as friends made it out to be.
