Tuesday, April 12, 2011

UnGoogleable Research Paper Highlight Reflection

Reading and highlighting the sources for my UnGoogleable research paper helped me find information for my paper because I can use some helpful advice that I didn’t before. I learned that playing can be a disaster for some athletes after retirement because it’s hard for them to do something different or lose the fame they got from their sports career. I can break my information into three sections. One section is about how is it difficult for athletes to have a successful career. Another section is how playing sports is a good career. The third section is how playing sports is not a good but not a bad career. My next step to write a research paper should be gathering all my information and putting it all together so I can start my paper

Monday, April 11, 2011

Third Quarter Awards Review

On Friday there was an awards assembly for kids that get awards for doing something good in the quarter. The assembly took place in the auditorium with the whole school attending it. When I entered the auditorium all I could hear was loud voices of all the kids in the school and all the teachers trying to get their classes seated and I didn’t know where to sit. I thought to my self “wow this place is packed where should I sit?” so finally I found a spot and sat down waiting for everybody to sit down so we can start the assembly. I was feeling anxious about the assembly because I was wondering if I was going to get an award. So after a minute or two everyone was seated and we started the assembly after we sang the pledge of allegiants. I felt like it was kind of useless to sit down because I had to stand right back up for the song.  So during the assembly I was thinking wow all these kids are getting awards and sooner or later my name is going to get called so I can go up there and get an award for myself. So I was clapping for everybody that was getting an award and then my name was called but I didn’t get an award I was called up there for being in Key Club. So for the next assembly I thought they can do like a raffle before the assembly so kids can get settled in and then do the pledge of allegiants because it will be easier then having the kids come in and have them sit down , then get them back up for a song.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

UnGoogleable Research – What I Already Know

My focus question is Is playing sports a successful career?I already know from a hand full of people that playing sports can be a successful career if you are playing the right sport. Because if you are playing the sport you’ve been playing for a long time then you already got the skill and the rules to play the game better then a person that doesnt know how to play. Because basketball is a career that takes a lot of skill and teamwork to play and most of all you need to know the rules. I also know that playing sports can be a career crasher and a dream killer because of the injuries that occur late in the season or later in their career. These injuries happen on the field because on every play there is someone on both teams looking to hit someone, and most likely when they hit the person they are looking for they might end their career or give them a concussion because that’s what the game is football is a contact sport.. Additionally there are a lot of athletes that say they loved playing sports for a career but then again there are a handful of athletes that say playing sports ended their career because of injuries. By doing research, I hope to learn some interesting facts about why playing sports is a successful career and why it’s not.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

UnGoogleable Research Paper – Website Evaluation Tips


http://www.sportsnetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sea.jpgThe topic for my paper is “Is playing sports a successful career?" I chose this topic because there are many athletes in the world that say they love playing sports because it’s their passion and then there are retired athletes that say playing sports is the worst thing because they were injured and can’t play sports again. I interviewed John English my house parent. And he said “playing sports is a successful career if you are playing a sport that has fewer injuries.”  Another person I interviewed was Alyssa and she said “playing sport can be a successful career if you know how to play the game and if you know the rules. Because if you don’t know how to play or if you don’t know the rules then you better learn them and fast because you might get cut from the team, or you might get fired. I interviewed josh Raccet and he said “Of course playing sports can be a successful career depending on the sports you’re playing. If you are playing a contact sport like football then you better watch out because there are people on the other team looking to hit someone hard and put them out, but if you are playing a non contact sport it better because you can have a longer career and fewer injuries to worry about. This advise will help me because I got a lot of different information about my topic from other peoples opinion.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Fourth Quarter Kickoff Reflection

My day fun and alright in the begging of the day I participated in a scavenger hunt with all the freshmen. When we were done with the scavenger hunt my team had to bring a box of Check cereal to a classroom where all the freshmen meet up with other ingredients to make something called Monkey Bumps. After making monkey bumps we went to another classroom to make monkeys so we can hang them up in the class. And when we were done making monkeys we got to go to lunch. After eating lunch the whole school had to split up into six teams and I was sent to playing waffle ball. It was pretty fun because we won then after that we went to the field and did relay races and we won that game also. After that we went to the gym and played capture the flag which I sort of liked because I got to run and let out all my energy but the part I didn’t like was when me and another student went to grab the other teams flag and my brother slid in so he can try and kick the ball to one of us and me and the other student collided and bumped heads. But after all that happened I had fun .

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