5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs 100-122

5 Comments

• When he was 15 years old he was benched for most of the season so he switched schools.
  
• "If you don't have playing time, it's because you don't deserve the playing time" (pg. 101, Lowell) This was a good quote because it's true if you like something then you make time for it.
  
• Mike Lowell went to Gables high school after he begged his parents to let him go.
  
• His dad had to talk to the athletic director so that Mike Lowell could get on the baseball team at Gables.
  
• During his junior year he got to be on the varsity team.
  

4 Questions

• Why would people let people become part of a team if they were going to bench them for the whole season?
  
• Why do parents remove kids from schools and make them switch schools?
  
• Is playing sports in high school supposed to help you to become a pro when you get older?
  
• Did it make a big deal what college or high school he went to, to play baseball?
  

3 Vocabulary

• envision: imagine
  
• aspirations: ambitions
  
• increments: an increasing ; amount of this
  

2 Literary

• "With less than 150 pounds behind me,"
  
• This was a lot of information about Mike Lowell's younger years and where he went to school and played sports.
  

1 Overview

• This chapter or part of the book was about some of the schooling that Mike Lowell went through and how his family helped him through it.