The assignment is to finish your short story of someone that didn't achieve their dream. Write about this and how the obstacles caused them to give up. Consider Junior and how he feels about poverty, and that those conditions can create a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Read (if you haven't-"Revenge is my Middle Name") "Because Geometry Is Not a Country Somewhere Near France."
Go get it! See you bright and early!
Mr. Florell