Today we read the short story "The Game" by Ken Dryden. Students have to select five words that they do not understand, write the sentence, circle or underline the word and then write a definition. Then students must select one of the following activities to complete:
1. Outline all of the qualities of the "sports hero" or celebrity identified by Dryden. Select a sports figure to research, and compare Dryden's description with your research model. Create a chart to show your findings.
2. The artist Andy Warhol once predicted that in today's media-rich world, everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame. Create a scenario (or a real example) that has made you famous. Did you win the lottery? Perform a heroic deed? Break a record? Write a script describing your fifteen minutes of fame.
3. Write a fan letter to a celebrity, identifying the qualities and characteristics that make him or her admirable to you. Your letter should contain specific examples that demonstrate these qualities.
Post, as a comment, your five sentences, with the selected word highlighted or underlined. Write a definition for each. If you have already started in your notebook, that is fine.
YOU MUST HAND IN ALL OF YOUR WORK FROM THE GAME!
Danette
ReplyDeleteMETHODICAL - Lambert, METHODICAL and unspectacular, has nothing readily distinctive about him.
Definition - performed, disposed, or acting in an organized way
ARTICULATE - The modern player must be ARTICULATE (or engagingly in articulate, especially southern style).
Definition - capable of speech
ELOQUENT - A player must be able to put in his own ELOQUENT words.
Definition - having the exercising the power of appropriate speech
ENNOBLING - Professional athletes do exciting, sometimes courageous, sometimes ENNOBLING things, as heroes do, but no more than you do.
Definition - to rise in excellence
CO-CONSPIRATOR - Instead, having learned much and grown older, I feel CO-CONSPIRATOR to a fraud.
Definition - a secret illegal plan
Ken Dryden ) Sean Avery
ReplyDelete-Honest )-Mean
-Courageous )-Unfriendly
-Nice )-Only beats up/blocks offensive goalie
Ken Dryden's "sports hero" qualities- honest, has sportsmanship, courageous, helpful and shares stuff.
Piffy
Ken Dryden Michael Jordan
ReplyDelete-honest -trust
-friendly -courage
-sportsmanship -true leadership
-courage -self confidence
Ken Dryden is honest, friendly and has great sportsmanship and courage.
By: Tristin
1) In between, the longer and better we play the more all- ENCOMPASSING the treatment becomes.
ReplyDelete-to close.
2) Mario Tremblay, for his fiery, untamedspirit; Bob Gainey for his relentlessness, almost PALPABLE will; Tiger Williams, Eddie Shack, Ron Duguay, each colourfuland exciting; and Dave Schultz, once king of the mountain.
-can be touched.
3)How to look good, how to sound modest and intelligent, funny and SELF-DEPRECATORY, anything you want.
-excessivly modest.
4)If they are INARTICULATE, harsh and pejorative, they are suddenly just jocks.
-lacking the ability to express oneself.
5) If they are inarticulate harsh and PEJORATIVE, they are suddenly just jocks.
-having a belittling effect or force.
Piffy
Definitions:
ReplyDelete1.) Co-conspirator.
Sentence: Instead having learned much and grown older, I feel co-conspirator to a fraud.
Definition: An illegal plan of action.
2.) Proliferates.
Sentence: As sports coverage proliferates beyond games, as it becomes entertainment and moves to prime time, as we look for the story behind the story off ice performance becomes important.
Definition: To make a greater larger number, increase size.
3.) Inarticulate.
Sentence: If they're inarticulate, harsh, and pejorative, they're suddenly just jocks.
Definition: Not being able to express yourself in a clear way.
4.) Pejorative.
Sentence: If they're inarticulate, harsh, and pejorative, they're suddenly just jocks.
Definition: To make or become worse.
5.) Eloquent.
Sentence: A player must be able to put it in his own eloquent words.
Definition: Say in a forceful expression.
Kim.
Ken Dryden
ReplyDelete-Went to University for a Bachelor of Arts
degree before hockey
-Short career, only played seven seasons
-Won the Vezina trophy five times for letting
in the fewest goals
-Joined the Liberal Party and became part of
the Cabinet as the Minister of Social
development
-Became part of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983
-Played for Team Canada
-Position: Goalie
Bobby Orr
-Played for team Canada
-Became part of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979
-Started skating at age four
-Became the first player in history to win four
major NHL awards in one season
-Position: Defence
Joannie rochette- kind, brave, strong, figure skater, Mother recentley died, canadian athlete, won bronze at olympics
ReplyDeleteKen Dryden- honest,sportmanship, Won stanley cup, friendly, Won CON SMYTHE trophy,
my 5 words: Dan-O-Mite
ReplyDelete1. we hate the nuisance and inconvenience, the bother of untimely, unending autographs, handshakes, and smiles, living out an image of ourselves that isn't quite real, abused if we fail to, feeling ecircled or trapped, never able to get away.
Untimely- occuring or done at an inappropriate time.
2. How to look good, how to sound modest and intellegent, funny and self-deprecatory, anything you want.
Self-deprecatory- to undervalue oneself and one's abilities.
3. At it's extreme, the process creates the category of professional celebrity, people "famous for being famous," so accomplished at being celebrities that their original source of deity is forgotten.
Deity- divine character or nature. Famous
4. A player must be able to put in his own eloquent words.
Eloquent- having the exercising the power of appropriate speech
5.The modern player must be articulate (or engagingly in articulate, especially southern style).
Articulate - capable of proper speech
Ken Dryden VS Wayne Gretzky:
-The both were born in Canada
-they both were famous
-Ken Dryden won the Conn Smythe trophy (playoff MVP) before he won the rookie of the year award. He is the only NHLer to do this. Not even Gretzky.
-Ken Dryden was a famous goalie for the Montreal Canadians. Gretzky was a player for the Oilers, Kings, Rangers, and Blues
-Dryden and Gretzky were both in the Hockey News’ top 100 players list.
Methodical - Lambert, methodical and unspectacular, has nothing readily distinctive about him- definition - performed, disposed, or acting in an organized way
ReplyDeleteEloquent - A player must be able to put in his own Eloquent words.
definition - having the exercising the power of appropriate speech
Untimely- We hate the nuisance and inconveneince, the bother of untimely, unending autographs, handshakes, and smiles - definition not occurring at a suiteable time
Engagingly- The modern player must be articulate ( or engagingly inarticulate, espescially southern style)- definition- pleasing
Inarticulate- same sentence as before^- definition- lacking the ability to express oneself