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Teammates

Teammates By Peter Golenbock Illustrated by Paul Bacon Genre :

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Teammates

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  1. Teammates By Peter Golenbock Illustrated by Paul Bacon

  2. Genre: • Biography- A Biography is a true story about someone’s life. A biography can be about the person’s entire life or a part of it and is written by someone else. An autobiography is when a person writes their own story about their life.

  3. Prior Knowledge • How many of you like baseball? • What do you know about baseball cards? • How many of you collect baseball cards? • What does friendship have to do with baseball?

  4. Background Information “Teammates” is a biography that shows the courage of three men: Jackie Robinson, who became the first African-American baseball player in the major leagues; Branch Rickey, who hired Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Pee Wee Reese, who befriended Robinson and risked the rejection of his teammates and fans. This inspirational story sets an emotional scene as it relates how Jackie Robinson blazed the trail for African-American athletes in major league baseball. “Teammates” deals with the issues of segregation and prejudice.

  5. Vocabulary apathetic-not interested; does not care Many people were apathetic about racial problems.

  6. exist-to be around Laws against segregation did not exist in the 1940’s.

  7. experiment-a test used to discover something Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson were starting on what would be known in history as “the great experiment.”

  8. extraordinary-remarkable; very special The negro league had extraordinary players, and adoring fans came to see them wherever they played.

  9. humiliations-things that cause someone to be embarrassed Initially, life with the Dodgers was for Jackie a series of humiliations.

  10. intimidate-to make someone feel bad by hurting their feelings He would have to possess the self-control not to fight back when opposing players tried to intimidate or hurt him.

  11. Play ball!!!

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