Read the excerpt from Sampson’s speech in We Beat the Street.Classes lasted every day until five, and after dinner they went to required tutoring sessions, where each student got help in areas of need. Their test scores began to rise. In the evening the students were required to study. No television was allowed during study hours, and bedtime was mandatory at ten P.M., which none of them liked very much."This feels like boot camp,” Sampson whispered to Rameck one night after lights out."Yeah, but it feels good, man. It’s like doing push-ups with my brain!”
Read the excerpt from "Talking to the Coach."The goal of the WPPA is "to teach baseball fundamentals and good sportsmanship to kids in a positive and enjoyable atmosphere." The Welles Park program is one of the largest youth baseball programs in the city of Chicago. In this program, every kid on the team plays in every game, and each player is guaranteed at least three defensive innings per game. Each player also bats throughout the game, regardless of whether he or she is playing defensively at the time.
Which best describes the author’s purpose in "The Players"?
Read this excerpt from Steve Jobs’s commencement speech.But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.
Read this excerpt from Ray Bradbury’s commencement speech.And then you gather around you the people who do believe in you—your parents and a few friends, if you're lucky. We don't have many friends in this world; but the few that do believe in you—and then you move on into the future. I try to do that.
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