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            attendance, promptness, staying in class, participating in discussion or work without interrupting.
             How can you tell whether the students in Stand and Deliver are intelligent? What has kept them from doing well in school? Which of the various things that has kept them from doing well has done the most to keep the students back? Compare these students to students at Hamden High School. Why do some of our students move ahead and others stay behind?.
             In most high schools, a freshman who takes second year algebra will take geometry the sophomore year and precalculus (or trigonometry and advanced algebra) in the junior year and calculus in the senior year. How did Jaime Escalante get students who began high school in a basic math course (the year before first year algebra) to get all the way through calculus? What motivated the students to work that hard and accomplish that much? What would motivate you or students you know to work so hard?.
             Jaime Escalante taught calculus at Garfield High School for a number of years and each year more students were able to pass the advanced placement test. Why did the number increase?.
             Administration at Hamden High School has organized a committee to discuss ways to close the achievement gap. What do you think they are talking about? Based on your own experience and what you saw in Stand and Deliver, what actions would you recommend that administration take to close the achievement gap at Hamden High? Include quotations from the two articles by Chaddock and by Greenberg if they help support your recommendations.
             How and why did Malcolm X get involved? How do you get involved? Does it make a difference?.
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             Read the articles about watching television and write a essay that makes recommendations about the amount of television children should watch and the ways television watching should be restricted, and explains the reasons for the recommendations.


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