Question For You

If you would have one the super bowl or the world series, would you retire and move on or stay with the sport?

Passage master

1.Gale puts on his game face. This is how he would get ready for the game.

2. Let us bow our heads let us think........stop.......and listen. Whatever man is God is weather his station be of weath or wealth or amongst the poorest of the poor.

3. Linda says she feels like i'm having an affair with football during the football season. He cares more about football then her during the season

Passage master

1.Gale puts on his game face. This is how he would get ready for the game.

2. Let us bow our heads let us think........stop.......and listen. Whatever man is God is weather his station be of weath or wealth or amongst the poorest of the poor.

Summary for the last meeting

Summary

Frist it starts with linda and Gale arguing about relaxing. Then it says they never had a big fight. Than it talks more in depth of the 67' season and how it went bad. Also it talked about his leg, and how he got shots for it all the time because it hurt so much. Then it talks about his life after his football career. he becomes a Stock Broker with jesse jackson. He enjoys his life after.

Thinking Questions for chapters 17-to the end

Q. Do you think that women will not stop arguing until she gets her way?

Q. Is it hard for a woman to keep feelings in and is it hard for woman to keep emotions in and for men to talk about his emotions? What do you think?

Q. Do you think that people bought from Gales stocks because he was Gale or because of some other reason?

Q. Does music Make you relaxed? If so, what kind?

Q. Has any thing ever good happened to you and then the next second it turned into a disaster?

Q. Do you think that you will go on to collage and play sports? If so, which one? Do you think that you will go pro in this sport?

Q. Why do you think that Gale did not get any more shots for his knee?

Important Passages

page#156
Running was the basis of everything I did in football, so running track had to help me in football, especially in keeping me in condition for football.
We think that this passage was important because it shows that Gale was still working hard at becoming a better player.

page#184
"Forget about the All Star game, don't even worry about it. Mabe it's better you didn't play in it, anyway I'm going to judge you by what you do here in camp. That's all."
We think that this passage is important because it showed that Halas still had faith in Gale.

page#203
I also ended up with the game ball, which made me feel very good especially since my father was in the dressing room when they presented it to me.
We think that this passage is important because it showed that Gale still cared what his father thought of him playing football.

Vocab for chapters 12-16

Vocab

Has been- someone that was good but now isn't like he use to be.

Rival- someone you compete against, someone or team you want to beat.

Off tackles- the lane out side the tackle

Main Thinking Questions

Question

Would you stand up for something you believe in even if you life was threatened?

Hard Core Thinkin Questions

Thinking Questions

Q. Should college's pay the players who play on there teams.

Q.Would you have stayed some where like a sit in even if you were threatened to be put in jail.

Q. What would it feel like to be poor?

Q. Why do you think he picked the NFL over the AFL

Summary for meeting 4

Summary

In chapter 13, he talks about everything he went through his last year in college like the sit in's and the rest of his college life and about how his last year of football wasn't his best in college. Then he talks about all the scouts coming to watch his games in college and about the Kansas team trying to get Gale to sing with them but he doesn't because a man named buddie Young and tells him about the markets and how good a town Chicago is and what a good place it is. So he chooses the Bears as his team. Then he talks about all of the college football all star games. Then he talks about his first start and about the whole year. Then he tells about the first game he got to start and how he felt on the inside.

A Question for You

In the book, Gale and his girl freind get married at an early age. How do you feel about getting married at such an early age?

Vocab for chapters 9-12

Negro- The word givin to people that are African- American.

Expound- To explain in elaborate detail.

Toe- The slang word that was givin to the ghetto.

Transom- A window above a door is commonly hinged to a transom

Alumni- One who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university.

Thinking Question's for Chapter's 8-12

Q- What are you going to college for?


Q- How would you feel if you had four jobs?


Q- Would you kill your dog if he was suffering?


Q- Would you leave your family to go off to college?


Q- Would you get married even if your parent's disapproved of doing so?

Summary of Chapters 8-12

Summary

It starts off in chapter 8 he talks about his high school days. He also talks about his high school football playing days about how he was the best high school player in Nebraska he had 60 touchdowns in one year. Every time he would score a touchdown the pookie burger would give him a free burger and he talks about eating them. He also talks about how him and Linda met and about there dates they went on. He holds the Nebraska record for the long jump 24 feet and 11 inches. Then he talks about how his brother was always better at sports then him and his brother became an Olympic long jumper and sprinter. Next there is a chapter all about Linda and his relationship with her and about how they got married as college freshmen and Linda's parents didn't approve and they didn't talk to them for a whole year. In chapter 10 he says yes to 17 colleges. He and his buddie Break went on road trips together to go visit the college's, and had a really great time together. But Gale finally picks Kansas as his college because they had a good football program and he wanted to be on a winning team so he chose to go there. In Chapter 11 he tells us all about his college life with his negro fraternity and about how he missed his home and Linda because they were so far apart.

Vocab from meeting 2

Vocab

Epidemic- A bad Sickness

Hesitation- Pausing and waiting for something to happen

Instinctively- Some kind of feelings that some thing was going to happen

Anxious- Nervous kind of feeling

Adjust- Getting us to something new

Question

Question

Do you think that you would have the courage to continue to play on a team after a serious injury and a team that is worthless and after the death of a very close friend.

Speech mabe by Gale Sayers

Great Speech

Gale Sayers was in New York to attend Professional Football Writers annual dinner and receive the George S. Halas award as the most courageous player in pro football.

When he went up to recevie the award he said My friend and teamate Brian Piccolo is dying of a cancerous tumour in his lungs. One reason i wanted brian to be here I intended to give him the trophy right here. But he wasn't able to. He said ot the audicence "Brian has the heart of a giant," he said, "and that rare form of courage that allows him to kid himself and his opponet, cancer. He has the mental attitude that makes me proud to have a friend who spells out the word courage twenty-four hours a day of his life." Then he ended by saying, "You flatter me by giving me this award but I tell you here and now that I acccept it for Brian Piccolo. He is a man of courage who should receive the George S. Halas award. Its mine tonight, it si brian Piccolo's tommorrow...........I Love Him and I'd like all of you to love him, too. Tonight, When you hit your knees, please ask God to Love him..... Brian died two days later in the hospital.

Thinking Questions for chapters 5-9

Thinking Questions

Q: How do you think you would feel if your best friend died?

Q: Why do you think that people can be in such great spirit even though they have cancer or some other terminal illness?

Q: Would you have the courage to stand up in front of people to give a speach to movate your team to win the game for someone else who isn't well?

Q: Would you change the way you felt about a minor injury after you saw some body who is going to die of a illness and they were in such good spirts?

Thinking Questions for chapters 1-4

Thinking Questions

Q: Do you think you would have the will to keep playing even if you had a injury?

Q: Would you put family or football first?

Q: Have you ever had a dream about an injury?

Q: Has somebody ever said to that you can't do it?

Q: Would the saying I am third apply to you? It means The lord is first my friends are second and you are third.

Q: Can you relate to what happened to him in some way?

Q: Do you think you look on life would have changed after you had a serious injury?

Meeting and notes

Vocab

Football- A game of contact with two teams trying to get points try to score against the other team. Gale was a pro football player.

Knee- A part of the leg that lets your leg bend forwards and backwards. Gale knee was injured while he was playing football.

Motivation- The will that someone has to continue even after something goes wrong. He had to have motivation to work on his knee after his injury.

Marlin- A type of fish. Gales friends used this word as humor when they would talk to him about his injury.

Tear- When the ligamnet of joints are torn. Gale had many ligaments in his knee.

I AM Thrid

This book is an inspirational story of a man named Gale Sayers. The book Starts out in 1968 where Gale is doing a normal play in a game Vs the 49'ers when Kermit Alexander came diving in to make the play on Gale. Kermit hit Gale in the knee and it bent sideways at a 45 degree angle tearing all the ligament in his knee. This is a major injury to recover from. But that didn't stop Gale Sayers. He had knee surgery on it to repair the torn ligaments. He had to work very hard and go thought much pain to get his knee back in to shape for the next football season. This was no easy task to accomplish. Gale had to lift weights and run a lot. He was determined to show everyone that he could do it and be better than he was before his injury. The first game since coming back form keen surgery Gale didn't start but the coach start but he did return kicks and punts. The first kick that he returned ran it all the way back but then it was brought back to the because he stepped out of bounds but it still was a 69 yard return. Even though the Bears lost that game 13 to 7 it was a big boost for Gale's confidence. Before the 1969 season he got a new contract making him the highest payed running back and selected to the pro bowl.

During are meeting are main topic was if we had suffered a injury like Gales would we continue to play and how would this effect us. We decied that we would all return to play the sport and we would all try are hardest to get back to the form we had before the injury. We also said that we would be more frigthen of reinjury and lack of confidence.

We also discused how we believed that Gale had a great deal of motovation and a will to come back.