1. What does Dr. Farmer mean when he states ""When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away all childish things." ? 2. Is it the schools responsibility to help teens develop into adults? Why or why not?

3. Where do most high-schoolers learn the lessons they need to become adults?

4. What do you think Samantha is thinking as she looks at her impoverished neighborhood?

5. What would have happened in Henry Lowe would have stabbed the woman's husband to death?

6. is education still "the only way out" for the African-American community?

7. How does Langston Hughes’ poem, "I, Too, Sing America" relate to the issues that the students were facing as African Americans in the United States in that time?