Here you can see that Coach White has clearly made a relationship with the boys because they are joking around with him and at this point he takes them serious because he respects them as adults and not just children that need to be straightened out.

In this scene, identity versus role confusion is seen because Coach White is talking to the team and telling them that there is a possibility of them going to state. It's hard to believe at first because no one ever believed in these boys. Once they won their first race then their community believed in them but no one else did. Other teams made comments such as, "(McFarland) only runs when they have cops behind them" and such so Coach White here is telling them that they don't have to be limited to the people that others imagine them to be but if they believe in themselves and each other, they could be anyone they wanted to be and could accomplish all they wish to accomplish.

Here, Coach White is again building the relationship between him and his runners by giving them some more background information of his coaching career.

By this scene, the boys' moral development has increased because in the beginning of the movie, had Coach White told Thomas "you're the captain," one can assume that he would have just called the chant and the boys would have gone to start the race but we see that Thomas instead calls Coach back to the group to call the chant. I believe he did this because he, along with the rest of the team, knows that without Coach, they wouldn't be where they are and he deserves just as much credit for their accomplishments as they do.

In this part of the scene, Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development is used because the coach is reminding the team that they do things that the other kids cannot do. They handle pain in ways that the others can't and somehow they still continue to push through it. Coach White is reminding them of the knowledge they already have of not giving up so that when they are running and they feel that they cannot do it anymore, they just have to think of all that they continue to do day after day and because they can go through all that hard work, they can get through this race as well.

I feel like this part is a metacognition moment that Coach White is having the boys do because he's asking them to think about what they do on a daily basis and how these activities make them stronger or different than any of the runners from the other schools that are there.

Gives some background on the character and her family. Reading this makes me think that her family is proud of her being in a gang but they probably feel this way because they know that if anything happens to her or to her family, she will have a whole "family" behind her and to stand by her side especially with all the "wars" going on during the time. It's more of a way of protection of her.