5,4,3,2,1 organizer pg. 40-60

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• It told how his grandfather escaped from Puerto Rico and they had to live with 15 people in a 3 bedroom one bathroom apartment.
• Mike Lowell met his wife in Miami.
• Mike Lowell says that during the ’07 spring training he kept thinking of something his family told him and that’s to always stay true to yourself and the goal you set for yourself.
• It was really hard for Dice-k and Okie when they first came to the Red Sox because they couldn’t speak very good English.
• Mike Lowell promised himself he would write in his journal one a month and he has a lot to say about his kids.
  
  4 Questions
  
• Does it help Mike Lowell to think about his family before a big game or does it make it worse if it’s an away game?
• Do all players on any sport team have a saying or something to help them remember home or does it just make it harder for them?
• When did Mike Lowell get married and when were his kids born?
• Did it help Mike Lowell to be able to speak both English and Spanish while being on the team?
  3 Vocabulary
  
• Extradited: to give up to another state, nation or authority
• Subsequently: occurring or coming later or after
• Circumvent: to go around or bypass
  2 Literary
  
• So far this whole book has been written in chronological order.
• This book has also done a lot of flashbacks like telling what happened to his family before.
  
  1 Overview
  
• This was mainly an introduction to how Mike Lowell’s family got here and how it was the same way for his wife’s family, also how when he came to the Red Sox’s how he grew to know them.