Nolan Ryan

                Throwing Heat the autobiography of Nolan Ryan. Nolan Ryan is an all-star pitcher that use to play in the MLB and is now in the Hall of Fame. He was born in Refugio, Texas; on January 31, 1947 when he was growing up he had 5 other siblings. When he was growing up he went to Alvin High in 1965 and was the pitcher of his high school baseball team. When came out of college he got drafted by the New York Mets then he went the Angels and then the Astros.

                In his Career he had 5 No hitters and had the record for the most No Hitters. In 1979 he started for the American League in the All-star game. Nolan became a very famous baseball player and got 4,000 strikeouts in his Career. I thought this book was very good because it talks about his childhood and how hard he worked to get the MLB. If you like sport books this is a very good book because it’s about his accomplishments in the MLB.  http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ryanno01.shtml
 

Romeo and Juliet

In Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare it seemed like it was a tragedy more than a comedy. It seemed like a tragedy because there was a lot of drama and the two families disliked each other. When people say it’s a comedy I don’t get where they got that from because nothing seems funny in the play except some words. There are a lot of deaths in Romeo and Juliet including Romeo and Juliet and Paris and Lady Capulet and Tybalt and Mercutio. Romeo and Juliet are in love and there love last through the whole play.

                If you like dramas this is a good play to read for you because there is love and tragedies. In the end Juliet gets sleeping poison so she fakes her death so she doesn’t have to marry Paris. Romeo finds out she is dead and decides to kill himself with poison and burry himself with Juliet. But when he goes to do that he runs into Paris and they get into a fight and Romeo kills Paris.    

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/full.html

Throwing heat

Throwing Heat the autobiography of Nolan Ryan. Nolan Ryan is an all-star pitcher that use to play in the MLB and is now in the Hall of Fame. He was born in Refugio, Texas; on January 31, 1947 when he was growing up he had 5 other siblings. When he was growing up he went to Alvin High in 1965 and was the pitcher of his high school baseball team. When came out of college he got drafted by the New York Mets then he went the Angels and then the Astros.

                In his Career he had 5 No hitters and had the record for the most No Hitters. In 1979 he started for the American League in the All-star game. Nolan became a very famous baseball player and got 4,000 strikeouts in his Career. I thought this book was very good because it talks about his childhood and how hard he worked to get the MLB. If you like sport books this is a very good book because it’s about his accomplishments in the MLB. 

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ryanno01

Reflection Blog

Some struggles I have had throughout the trimester were the length of my sentences and punctuation. Some ways that I have overcome this are, by using more quotes an extending sentences; with my punctuation I have just payed more attention in class and learned how to use more things. Some things that I do strongly are using quotes describing the story, without giving away the end. I always have something to blog about with my books. Tim Tebow through My Eyes is my blog that shows quoting, and describing story without giving away ending.

                http://kamer227.blogspot.com/2013/10/tim-tebow-through-my-eyes-inspirational.html  Analyze complex characters for Tim Tebow. My opinion on this book is that he really talks about his life through his eyes and his emotions. In this book, he is talking about his success and how hard he worked at everything he did when he was growing up. In the NFL, he became a huge success playing for the Broncos as a quarterback that would like to run the ball a lot. Tim Tebow is a great role model he inspires a ton of people with his athletic abilities and his faith.

                Some goals I have for myself is to keep my books longer. Read longer books that will last me longer so I can have more to blog about. Areas of improvement should be my punctuation so I can know how to use it in my writings. Increasing my sentences length which could be read longer books so I have a lot more to blog about. If I do all of that my writings will be very good and will help me with my grades.

Michael Jordan His amazing Career

Michael Jordan by Mitchell Krugel. When Michael was growing up he has always loved sports especially basketball. When Michael was growing up he was always the tall person, which was one reason that leads to his success in this sport. In high school Michael lead the basketball team to two state championships and 3 playoff appearances. Michael Jordan ended up getting recruited by the University of North Carolina.

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/1035/michael-jordan

                At North Carolina Michael lead the Tar Heels to Two national championships four NCAA appearances. At the end of Michael’s college days he got drafted by the Chicago Bulls. Michael lead Chicago to one National Championship and scored on basically the whole NBA. Into Michael’s NBA career he switched his sport to baseball and had one of the worst batting averages in the MLB. I am still reading this book but so far it seems like a pretty good book.

KAREEM his work hard story

                He shoots he scores. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar by himself and Mignon McCarthy. Kareem grew up loving baseball it was his passion and life, his dad would practice with him non-stop with baseball. The first time Kareem played basketball was in the fourth grade and he found out he was one of the better kids at basketball. Throughout elementary school and middle school Kareem played baseball and basketball. When Kareem got into high school he was not allowed to play baseball because of his height.

                During high school Kareem practiced more and more with basketball. In High school his team had 3 playoff appearances and one state championship. Kareem got recruited by UCLA during his years at UCLA he had 2 NCAA tournament appearances and zero national championship wins. Kareem got drafted by the Lakers; Kareem had a long career with them including 6 MVP trophies and 1 championship. During his career he has had trouble with the press and talking bad about his opponents. If you have liked everything I have said you should read KAREEM, this book shows his dedication his ability to work hard and his great success.

http://kareemabduljabbar.com/

Black Boy Inspirational story

Black Boy By: Richard Wright

This book the Black Boy is about Richard Wright. Richard grew up in an African American family and he was poor growing up. He was born on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, he moved several times growing up and mainly just stayed in the southern towns. Growing up he would also work many Part-time jobs. At fifteen he went to Memphis and earned enough money to move to Chicago and dig ditches there, run errands, he also washed dishes, sold insurance, clerk, and worked at the unites states post office.

This book is for people that like life stories and their journey throughout life and how they got to where they are at now. He was always reading and he began to write in 1936 and published a long short story “Big Boy Leaves Home”. I haven’t read the whole thing yet but what I have read I have liked. I think this story would be inspirational because he tells how he became famous, and his life story.

http://teenink.com/reviews/book_reviews/article/1695/Black-Boy/

Tim Tebow Through My Eyes (Inspirational)

Tim Tebow's  autobiography, Through My Eyes is a sports novel about his famous NFL career and personal life. My opinion on this book is that he really talks about his life through his eyes and his emotions. In this book, he is talking about his success and how hard he worked at everything he did when he was growing up. In the NFL, he became a huge success playing for the Broncos as a quarterback that would like to run the ball a lot. When Tim Tebow  was growing up he was home schooled by his favorite teacher his mom, and in high school he was still home schooled but played football for Nease High school.

                Tim Tebow loved football but also played baseball but couldn’t decide what he liked better. “But football was my passion. More specifically, playing football as a throwing quarterback has always been my passion, and I’m not going to let baseball get in my way of making my timely decision”. Tim Tebow was an all-star at a lot of sports at Nease. Tim Tebow is a great role model he inspires a ton of people with his athletic abilities and his faith. People should read this book because he talks about how hard he worked to get where he is.

http://www.lifeway.com/Article/football-book-Tim-Tebow-Through-My-Eyes

Finishig BABE The Legend Comes To Life

                The Book BABE is about Babe Ruth who grows up in a foster home and lives in a small house in Baltimore. He grows up to be a big famous baseball player that makes a name for himself and gets a lot of attention. The theme of the book is baseball is his life it was centered around the sport. The setting could be his small house with his tiny backyard and growing up without parents. Overtime the setting would probably change overtime because he becomes rich and famous and he was living big.

                “The house on Emory Street where Ruth was born was one part of a four-unit house. Each unit was 12 ½ feet wide and the house was 60 feet deep, with a small backyard and a front door opening directly to the sidewalk.” Babe changed overtime he became very good at baseball led his team in school. After school he was in the minor leagues and worked his way up to the majors and won a pennant in Boston. Babe Ruth also broke the all-time home run record and broke many more.

http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016451.html

Babe THE LEGEND COMES TO LIFE

The book Babe by Robert W. Creamer is a sports book about Babe Ruth.  One of the best baseball players of all time. If you like sports, this would be a good recommendation because it talks about his baseball and his life story and how he got to be such a great player. Babe Ruth got fame and money and the great name he brought to baseball. Babe Ruth was a legend and the novel about his legacy and what he accomplished and what records he broke.
               

This book talks about when he was born 1895 in February and growing up Babe Ruth was in an orphanage in Baltimore. Babe Ruth was a hero to the city of Baltimore and a hero to the New York Yankees. Babe Ruth’s Live in Baltimore wasn’t very good he lived in a small house with a small backyard. It was a four-unit row house each unit was about 12 ½ feet wide and the house was 60 feet deep.  The house now is a museum and a monument to Ruth’s http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/sports/robert-w-creamer-biographer-of-babe-ruth-dies-at-90.html?_r=0

   

Leverage review

Leverage Book review By: Kameron Rayl   

The book Leverage is about a football team in a small town called Oregrove and the high school is called Oregrove High. In the book there was a prank with steroids that got a lot of people in trouble and the football team and it like started a fire between them all. The setting in the book is summer and in school most of the time. “ Summer still linger in the air this first week of my sophomore year and, even with the windows wide open, the classroom bakes at a snooze able eighty four degrees according to the doughnut-shaped thermometer by the light switch. Outside, you can hear the machine hum of john Deere tractor lawn mowers grooming the football fields. The sweet smells of cut grass and gasoline waft into the class, mixing happily with glory’s shampoo.”

 

                This book is good if you like sports and mysteries. This book is hard to keep up with because it gets to a lot of talking. This book gets interesting because of the pranks and drama. In this book it separates to good friends and makes them dislike each other. In this book also the fullback becomes emotionally damaged because he was pranked and gets kicked off the team and goes into depression. The coach had to kick off a lot of the players for the prank and the people that got pranked got kicked off too.

http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/f-reviews/review-leverage-by-joshua-c-cohen/