52 pages • 1 hour read
George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, Sharon M. DraperWe Beat the Street: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2005A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
What role does friendship play in the book? How are the boys helped or hindered by their friends?
What teachers or mentors most profoundly shape the boys’ learning and sense of self?
How do drugs and addiction impact the friends? What empowers them to ultimately say no?
Why is theater and music essential to the boys’ lives, both as kids and later, in medical school? What does it offer them? What limits do they see to a career in music?
How do socioeconomics and growing up in an impoverished environment impact the three friends?
Sports participation is important to all three friends to varying degrees. Why is it important to them?
How is each boy supported by his family during his educational journey?
What kind of legal trouble do the friends get into and what do they learn from these mistakes and/or legal entanglements?
What early medical or scientific encounters prove the most formative for each of the friends?
By their shared graduation day, what do the three friends count as their main achievements?
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