MICHELLE KWAN: HEART OF A CHAMPION

PREDICT

What do you think this story is going to be about?

Who do you think is going to be featured?

Do you think she is going to become a champion, as the title suggests?

SUMMARIZE

Please summarize with your partner, the main idea of “Baseball’s Hero with a Heart”

Tell your partner and group one thing you remember about Sammy Sosa’s life.

AMATEUR

Someone who engages in an athletic activity for fun, instead of money.

ARTISTIC

Showing skill and good taste

COMPETE

To take part in a contest

ELEMENTS

The part of which something is made up

JUDGES

People who decide who wins a contest

PRESENTATION

performance

PRESSURE

Urgent or forceful demand

REQUIRED

Necessary, essential

TECHNICAL

Having to do with technique

ELITE

Top level, the most skilled members of a group

REVOLUTIONS

360 degree turns

GNARLED

Knobby and twisted

SETTING

See your graphic organizer.

What was the setting of this story?

Was there more than one?

If yes, then why?

What made the setting so important to the plot of this story?

GENRE AND THEME

What genre and sub genre are “Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion”?

What was the main idea of this piece? What is the main idea of the first paragraph

in this piece? As a group.

List 6 main events in this story, and place them in chronological order.

CHARACTER TRAITS

What motivated Michelle to continue doing what she was doing, and working hard. Everyone told her she couldn’t do it. Why didn’t she listen?

What 3 personality traits made Michelle so determined to be great?

Would it have been easier for Michelle to give up and quit?

What would have happened to her life if she had quit skating?

ORGANIZATION AND POINT OF VIEW

How is this story organized?

Events?

Time?

Discuss with your group

Who tells this story?

1st person? 3rd person? Omniscient?