The Backfield Package by Thomas J. Dygard is a fiction sports story about a football team that has a chance to win the Rend Lake Conference championship in back to back seasons. The story mainly focuses on four players Joe Mitchell the quarterback, Tracy Jackson a wide receiver, Coley Brewster a running back, and Lew Preston the fullback and where these players will decide to go to college to play football at. The time that this story goes on is unknown, but I would assume that the time is sometime in the nineties or pretty close to there. The story takes place though in southern Illinois at a small high school named Hillcrest High.…
The players who had practiced diligently for weeks were upset and concerned. Several of the players confronted him, asking why he had brought in this player after they had been working hard for months. Brooks listed the player’s skill and abilities, but the players told him they were family. Brooks asked them if this was the team that wanted to play together. As they answered yes with conviction, Brooks sent the talented player home.…
Granny trying to keep her grade up, but she has so much responsibility. In the end, Mr.Barnes got the school out of probation and try to improve up to 3 points. Granny end up move with her grandfather and her grade has…
The novel Fast Break by Mike Lupica illustrates the journey of a 12-year-old boy named Jayson trying to evade the capture of Child Protective Services. After Jayson’s mom dies, he is forced to live on his own. An aspiring basketball prodigy, Jayson turns to the court to hone his talents. Jayson is fueled by the dream of playing inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, home of the Duke Blue Devils in the basketball-crazed state of North Carolina. Along with the help of his friends, he steals food from stores to survive.…
Kanny Huang Ides This story was about how a NBA star started the bottom and endured the hardships his family went through to soon be one of the best and most recognized players in the league. Caron had a hard childhood growing up. Some of the barriers included racism and poor family. He and his mother lived with his grandma in a three bedroom and 1 basement house.…
In Chris Lynch’s book, Hit Count, he looks at the controversial topic of concussions and other head injuries in organized football. During the course of the book, the main character Arlo, continuously gets hit and makes hits on the football field that surely take a toll on his body. Even with the concern of his mom and coaches, Arlo refuses to see that the way he plays football is dangerous. From a psychological perspective he is in complete denial of the peril he is putting his body through after every blow. To analyze this topic to its core one must look into the work of Lynch, as well as the medical evidence of head injuries in football.…
The school year was soon to come to an end which means try outs for all the sports next year were taking place. At the end of the day each smart kid stayed after for extra work. While leaving the smartest one, the leader of the group who excelled in math, walked past the football field while a ball happen to roll off right by his foot. “ Hey you! Yeah you smart stuff toss that ball back!”…
The story Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher discusses the topic of letting kids slide through school, as long as they are benefiting the school's sports teams, like the mens UConn basketball team has been doing recently. The conflict of prioritizing sports before school is a prominent issue in the book Whale Talk as it is in the real world, specifically on the men’s UConn basketball team. T.J. refuses to participate in school athletic teams because he hates the fact that athletes are granted special privileges because of their positions on a team. Crutcher shows T.J.’s dislike for the school's athletic department when he says, “Cutter is such a jock school. They pray before games and cajole you to play out of obligation, and fans scream obscenities…
The book that I have been reading is True Legend by Mike Lupica. This book is about a kid named Drew “True” Robinson who is an insanely good basketball player. He’s so good that he has made it into the sportscenter top ten plays. He lived in New York up to his Sophomore year in highschool when a extremely rich guy named Seth Gilbert. He completely changed Drew’s life by helping out financially and basically becoming a second parent.…
1. I Just Wanna Be Average by Mike Rose 2. In the article, “I Just Wanna Be Average by Mike Rose tells us how his test scores had been mixed with another student with the same name, but rose was placed in an vocational track for two years because the other student did not do so well on the placement test. At Mercy all lower class teachers weren’t good and did not know what they are doing.…
It was the beginning of the school year, and all the seniors were getting stressed about college. Many of the boys that played sports had received scholarships to go play in college, but very few girls were getting good scholarships to places they wanted to go. One of the girls had been a varsity basketball player all four years of high school and she always started on the team, but she was not getting the scholarships she deserved. She was always working hard and practicing on and off season to improve to the best of her ability. A boy that received a scholarship to play basketball, did not even come close to working as hard as she did, but he still got to go to college for free for his game.…
The frat is comprised of football players, and they forcefully take over the freshman dorm as a place to live, leaving Gilbert and the other freshman to live in the gymnasium. Word is spread by the Dean that the students can avoid living in the…
“In Theodore Boone, the scandal” A boy named Theo is at school like any other day, but today isn’t like any other day, it is exam week. Nobody likes exams, but as the week passes on it comes to the end of all the tests. Theo and his friend April don’t pass, something unusual but nothing too important to them or the story. Besides the fact that people with normally lower grades than Theo had passed the test with astonishing scores. At first, Theo thinks nothing of it but as time passes he thinks to do something about it.…
“I know. I’ll get an F. I’ll lose the scholarship” (427). In the book Swagger by Carl Deuker, Jonas, a kid from California, is put in many situations that he was not expecting. After moving to Seattle, and meeting his friend Levi. Jonas meets Coach Hartwell, who was his his dream coach.…
School was staring and on the first day, Scout had a new teacher named Miss Caroline. As a result of Miss Caroline being a new teacher, she taught the way she was told to teach but because Scout already knew how to read, it interfered with her teaching method and therefore Scout got in…