"Movie and Book Comparison"
The movie is very simular to the book the main difference is that with the book you have to try to visualize whats going on, and with the moive you can see the drama and what's happening. Some of the other small differences are that the players numbers in the book are different from the players numbers in movie, and in the movie Boobie miles got injured in a preseason game, and not a scrimmage like in the book. I think that the movie is better, because it has more action and suspense; over sitting down and reading the the book. The Book still is good, but the movie is way better.
Summary of Chapters 1-2
It started off with talking about the history of Odessa and how it was such a bad town with murders and alot of crime. Then they had a watermelon feed. Since 1964 matching performance won 4 state champions, and has been to the state finals 8 times. And has made the play offs 15 times. Members of the 1988 Permian Panthers, dressed in their black game jersies; as they laughed and teased.
Summary of Chapters 3-5
The begining of the first two chapters talked about how Boobie was injuried. An how he was struggleing with the idea that he may or may not be able to play football, and be the player that he once was, but the team won their first game vs El Paso 49-0 without him. Ch. 5 begins with why the blacks and the whites of Odessa don't get along. Mostly how the blacks don't like to be called niggers and the whites would let them buy a house that a white person owned.
Summary of Chapters 9-11
Many people were buying tickets for the Midland game, lining up before the tickets went on sale. Permian had won the game. Awhile after the game George Bush had came to the Midland-Odessa are for a campaign apperance for the Republican presidential candidate campaign. Boobie had returned from his injury, but people didn't care because he had been gone for awhile and wasn't as good anymore. Plus another guy had taken his place and was better than him. Midland and Odessa were two different towns. One was full of rich and fancy, and the other was poor and crappy.
Summary of Chapters 12-16
The team from Odessa was still stuggling in the games without Boobie Miles. They lost the game that would have made them go to the playoffs for sure. Since they lost it was a three way tie with Odessa and two other schools. So to decide what two teams got to go to play off they flipped a coin, and Odessa won. They made it to the state championship but ended up losing by just a little bit in the final minutes.
What is your favorite sport?
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Thinking Question 5
How would you feel if your football team had lost a game so close to the championship?
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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Summary of meeting 5
Manager:
Have you ever been in a close game with only seconds left?
Do you think it was a good choice when Boobie Miles quit playing football? Why?
Would you feel like a town hero if you won your last football game of the year?
What number was Boobie Miles?
How has not playing football effected Boobie Miles grades?
Infielder:
How do you think the team felt after they got defeated?
Pitcher:
How would you feel if your football team lost?
Outfielder:
Whats the difference between Midland and Odessa?
Catcher:
How do you think the fans felt after the team got defeated?
Have you ever been in a close game with only seconds left?
Do you think it was a good choice when Boobie Miles quit playing football? Why?
Would you feel like a town hero if you won your last football game of the year?
What number was Boobie Miles?
How has not playing football effected Boobie Miles grades?
Infielder:
How do you think the team felt after they got defeated?
Pitcher:
How would you feel if your football team lost?
Outfielder:
Whats the difference between Midland and Odessa?
Catcher:
How do you think the fans felt after the team got defeated?
Summary of meeting 4
We started off by going over a few of are thinking questions. Talking about If we have ever had a sports moment, and how you would feel if you couldn't play a sport any more because you got hurt.Then we went over the key words of the chapter. Such as Gambling,nonresidential,medication,miserable, and off season. After that we went over the summary of the chapters and when when we were done with that we finished up with are last few thinking question. One of them was asking if you have ever had i big dream in life.
Summary of Meeting 3
First we discussed our thinking questions:
*Why do you think that the school blamed the low acedemic scores on the disegregation?
*If football was removed from the town of Odessa, what do you think would happen to the town?
*Why do you think the town Odessa loves football so much?
*If you were Ivory would you not want to play as bad any more too?
*Has there been a rumor or anything that has spread fast about you, like the party?
*Why did they all love George so much?
*Why do you think dating a football player would make a girl popular?
*Why do you think the girls were supposed to get lower grades?
We then discussed some of the vocabulary:
jarring- to move something
sequmed- small or tiny
simtamatic- to unknowingly do something
fanatical- joyful, or excited
flickering- to blink off and on
We then ended the meeting with some passages from the book that had a special meaning to what we had read.
*Why do you think that the school blamed the low acedemic scores on the disegregation?
*If football was removed from the town of Odessa, what do you think would happen to the town?
*Why do you think the town Odessa loves football so much?
*If you were Ivory would you not want to play as bad any more too?
*Has there been a rumor or anything that has spread fast about you, like the party?
*Why did they all love George so much?
*Why do you think dating a football player would make a girl popular?
*Why do you think the girls were supposed to get lower grades?
We then discussed some of the vocabulary:
jarring- to move something
sequmed- small or tiny
simtamatic- to unknowingly do something
fanatical- joyful, or excited
flickering- to blink off and on
We then ended the meeting with some passages from the book that had a special meaning to what we had read.
Summary of Meeting 2
We started off by reading the summary of what we read to refresh our memory. Then we went on to explain our thinking questions like how would you feel ifyou got injured playing your favorite sport right before the new season started. As we got done with that we went on to discuss new or different words that were in our reading. Some of the words were scrimage, and gazed. We then went through the important passages. Then to conclued our meeting we talked about interesting parts in chapters 3-5. We finished off our meeting by discussing opinions on the book throught chapter 5.
Summary of Meeting 1
We started off by going through the phrases and a thinking question. Then we listened to the summary, and another thinking question. After that, we talked about why there is so much violence in the town of Odessa. We also discussed how we would feel; if we became injured, and weren't able to do something that we love.
