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Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion

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 .

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Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion

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  1. Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion

  2. 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?

  3. 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.

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

  5. Artistic • Showing skill and good taste

  6. Compete • To take part in a contest

  7. elements • The part of which something is made up

  8. judges • People who decide who wins a contest

  9. Presentation • performance

  10. pressure • Urgent or forceful demand

  11. required • Necessary, essential

  12. technical • Having to do with technique

  13. elite • Top level, the most skilled members of a group

  14. Revolutions • 360 degree turns

  15. gnarled • Knobby and twisted

  16. 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?

  17. 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.

  18. 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?

  19. 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?

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