"playing without the ball"

Dear reader,

In the novel playing without the ball the theme is the story determination. Determination is shown in this story in a few different ways. One way determination is shown is by when the boy’s mom leaves him and his dad leaves to go to Virginia. This shows determination because he was determined to stay in his hometown and finish his senior year out and play basketball for the schools team. Also the story shows determination by when jay gets cut from his schools basketball team he is determined to still be able to play basketball. He shows this by as soon as he gets cut he goes to a near by church in his town and gets on the churches basketball team. I will show you determination in my project by showing many different pictures of determination. Another way I will show determination is by doing 4 different project to show how jay showed determination through ought his senior year in high school. I will show you a letter, and many other things to show different ways of determination by jay.
                      
                                             

Dear mom,

Its jay. im doing fine on my own here. dad has me in a aparetment upstairs from luckeys bar. im working there a few nights a week to work off my rent money. School is going good right now for me. i have good grades and im kinda likeing school, so thats a good difference in me. ha remember back when i was younger i hated school and never wanted to go. Maybe its because its my senior year so im just wanting to really enjoy it. im gonna try out for the schools varsity basketball team next week. ive been goin down to the Y alot to practice with people before school and after and before i have to be at work at night at the bar. I met some new friends from working at the bar. A tennis player and the lead singer spit and me are pretty cool.

Sinceraly your son, jay

                  

Dear jay,

Hey jay its your dad. i wanted to talk to you but my phone broke. I just wanted to say im sorry. Im sorry me and your mom split up. Yea it was for the best but we are adaults and your the kid. we are you parents and we should have been mature enough to be able to work on it. Exspecially for you. and also im sorry you dont get to see eather of us. i Should have stayed with you and found another job there but with the economy where it is. It would have been hard for me to find another good paying job so quick. i was wondering do you still plan on coming down with me after you graduate from high school to live with me, write back please.

love, your dad





" shortys bar sighn"




"jays apartment above the bar next door"



Phone rings

jay- hello

dad- hey njay its your dad

how is everything

school

jay- school is goin good

dad- what baout basketball

jay- its goin good we are about to have tryouts

dad- do you feel confident

jay- yea i feel pretty good, still really nervouse thoe

dad- its understandable son, just try your best

you dont always win at everything in life its about how you pick your self back up after defeat

jay- yea i know. thanks dad

but hey i gotta go to the bar and work.

ill call you when i get off work around 12

dad- okay son i love you bye

jay- love you to dad

bye

For my genres i did a few different ones.i had a letter from jay to jays mom. his mom one day just abanded him and his father and just took off and left one day. I used this to help with determination because jay stayed determined through everything even though the only way he could talk to his mom was threw a letter. Another one i used was a letter from jays dad to jay. This also helps show determination because his dad left him by himself so he could work and jay still was determined to stay back and try out for his shools basketball team. The third one i did was just some pictuyres with captions showing a sighn for shortys bar and grill and also jays apartment up above a bar. The fourth and final genre i used was a phone call between jay and his dad. this helped show determination because you can tell they both miss each other but they are eached determined to do what each of them set out to do in the first place with school/ basketball and work.

 repitend: for my repitend im gonna show some photos showing more about the word determination

definition- determination: the condition of being determined; resoluteness

 

responce

http://beatdesales.blogspot.com/2011/03/achievements.html?showComment=1299700328715#c543748827355591473

achievments in life

one of my greatest achievments was in 8th grade when my football team went 7-0 and unscored on. we beat out all our oppentents. and they didnt even score on us. becvause we were thast good. our def3ence was like the 85 bears defence of middle school. so that was one good achievement. but one of my biggest and best achievements also my proudest was my tochdown.  it was our third to last game. at home vs. grove city. i remember it perfect. we were driving down, got closer and closer. i asked coach are ya ready he said let me run one more play and we got a 10 yard penalty. so i thought well nvm. but coach wanted to get that score for me. so he threw a pass and got us down to the 3 yard line and i ran in. got down topok the ball almost fumbled so went down. hurried up offence got bak upo ran it and SCORE. and thats hownthe nickname TOUCHDOWN TOMMY BROWN came around.