Reading assignment : so what?

In my book, the protagonist is pushed to do better In basketball by his coach. He thinks this is unfair at first because the coach praises all the other kids who aren't as good, the assisntant coach explains to him that because he is so good he is pushed to be even better.

I used a student who gets good grades to demonstrate this.

Personal post- the season is done

The season is over!

It was a tough loss, we had practiced for two weeks for our wildcard matchup against sisler. The game plan was to make their good players not touch the ball and not score the ball, which we did very well, However what we didn't manage to do was score te ball. We only hit about one of every four shots we took, and in basketball that is very bad. Our gameplan was good but we didn't manage to put the ball in the hoop and in basketball, and any other sport, it is very hard to win if you don't score.

Despite losing we still had a great season. I could not be more proud of the team. We were a group of hard working players who never stop fighting. There is an overwhelming desire to win on our team and I couldn't be more proud of it.

Even though the season done the memories are not. Something our coaches have alaways preached to us since grade 9 is that husky basketball is a brotherhood, and the guys you meet and play along side here will be your brothers for the rest of your life. Personally I couldn't be more happy that these are the guys that by some chance I got put on a team with and will get to have memories with for the rest of my life.

SWM 6

Authors note: this is a six word memoir about my hobbies and passion. This memoir shows that I play basketball and that I am tall. I used stereotypes in this memoir about because people always say to me " wow your so tall, do you play basketball?!". When people ask me that it always makes me laugh because I am tall and I do play basketball but ironically I play the position for the "smallest" player on the court because of my skills. I chose this picture because it shows me and my team during a timeout in a tornement last year and I liked the picture. I am right in the middle of the picture wearing number 20.

SWM 5

Authors note: this is a six word memoir about my friends, actually these are more then my friends, they are my teammates and brothers. People always say that we argue a lot but we don't mind. We know we argue because we care about eachother. If you don't care about someone you won't care enough to argue or fight with them. I want the best for and from my brothers and when I think that's not what they're giving or getting then I get mad. I chose this picture because it is a picture of me and two of my closet friends, and I thought it shows how close we are because we're teammates

SWM 4

Authors note: I wrote this six word memoir to describe my childhood, when I was a kid I would spend all day shooting hoops in my driveway, playing through differant scenarios, countin down the clock to hit a game winner in game 7 of the nba finals, or being announced in as a starter for the bulls. I would imagine I was the best player in the world. I chose this picture because when I was little I would dream of being able to dunk and it reminded me of the things I would see in my head when I imagined I was playing in the NBA.

SWM 3

Authors note: this is a six word memoir about friendship, an how friendships can fade away. Is is describing how you can be so close to someone an then over time become so distint. I used this picture collage I made because it shows me and a friend of mine, Emily, really close in the first picture and eventually she disappears as if we had grown apart (but I actuality we are still friends) I chose this photo because I thought it demonstrated the point, as well as it's kind of funny.

SWM 2

Authors note: I this is a six word memoir about my memory of my first kiss and the thoughts that we're going through my head. I was really nervous and I also couldn't stop thinking of how embarrassing and awkward it would be if I screwed it up. I chose this picture of a friend of mine because I of his facial expression. On one Hand it is just funny, and it matches with the caption because the idea of "missing" on your first kiss is funny and embarrassing. On the other hand he also looks kind of nervous which is the feeling I had, and everybody has before there first kiss.