Foul Shot

Glossary

Solemn: Not cheerful or smiling; serious

Drum: Bounce lightly

Nudge: To push against

Waver: To move unsteadily back and forth

coy: Annoyingly unwilling to make a commitment

Sooth: To ease or relieve

Hesitate: To be reluctant

Wobbles: To move or rotate with an uneven or rocking motion or unsteadily from side to side

Bennett Lapiner

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of Adam reciting and acting out Foul Shot

FOUL SHOT

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By

Andrew Ben-porat

Adam Kessler

Bennett Lapiner

and Connor Kelly

by: Edwin Hoey

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Foul Shot

More music

Interpretation of Foul Shot

Missing Right before ROAR-UP,

Dives down and through

Adam Kessler

The score is 60-60,

And there is two seconds left in the game,

The boy is alone in his mind and is only focused on this shot,

It is silent,

He check were his feet are in relation to the free throw line,

He dries his hand of any sweat on his uniform,

He dribbles the ball softly on the floor,

He then measure his shot,

He raises the ball up on his right hand,

He balances the ball with his left hand,

He calms and slows down the ball with his finger tips,

Breathes,

Crouches,

Waits,

And then goes completely still,

He then shoots the ball into the air,

The ball

slides out of his hands and into the air,

Lands,

Leans,

Wobbles,

Wavers,

Hesitates,

The ball shows reluctance to go into the basket,

The balls shows reluctance until everybody starts to yell,

And then, And then, And then,

Right before everybody goes crazy,

The ball goes in the basket.

Connor Kelly

Connections

Text to Real World :In the 2011 World Series the Cardinals had won in game six in extra innings all because of one player. David Freese. He kept the game alive with a triple to tie and with one swing of the bat the St. Louis Cardinals were champions because David hit a walk-off home run. He was under a lot of pressure but at the end he came through just like the kid in Foul Shot.

Figurative Language

(continued)

Bennett Lapiner

Repetition

And then

And then

And then

Adam Kessler

Figurative Language and Theme

(continued)

Connor Kelly

This is an example of repetition to add suspense. It adds suspense by stalling the poem while the ball is bouncing on the rim. This cases the reader to to feel suspense and want to keep reading on.

Theme: Don't let the pressure get to you, you can do whatever you set your

mind too

Fight the pressure and benefits will occur

Shake, unsteady

And then

And then

And then

Very descriptive and lots of vivid verbs:

Figurative language

Moves side to side

Imagery- Seconds hanging on the clock, what the ball is doing, faces screaming, him doing his routine

Serious

Solemn boy, lands, leans, wobbles, wavers, hesitates, unsounding screams, and much more

Adam Kessler

Foul Shot

Alliteration- With two 60s stuck on the scoreboard

And two seconds hanging on the clock,

The solemn boy in the center of eyes,

Squeezed by silence,

Seeks out the line with his feet,

Soothes his hands along his uniform

By Edwin A. Hoey

Great depth-sound

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Foul Shot

Gently drums the ball against

the floor

Onomatopoeia

Gently drums the ball against the floor

You can hear the sound when it says drums

Adam Kessler

Seconds hanging on the clock

The ball dives down and through

They can't really do this

Defining moment for kid

The ball

Slides up and out,

Lands,

Leans,

Wobbles,

Wavers,

Hesitates,

Plays it coy

Until every face begs with unsounding screams-

And then

And then

And then,

Right before ROAR-UP,

Dives down and through.

Personification

My real life

Edwin A. Hoey

Same in my basketball

With two 60s stuck on the scoreboard

And two seconds hanging n the clock,

The solemn boy in the center of eyes,

Squeezed by silence,

Seeks out the line with his feet,

Soothes his hands along his uniform,

Gently drums the ball against the floor,

Then measures the waiting net,

Raises the ball on his right hand,

Balances it wit his left,

Calms it with finger tips,

Breathes,

Crouches,

Waits,

And the through a stretching of stillness,

Nudges it upward.

Game tied

Edwin began his career as an English teacher, but after three years left the classroom in 1961 to become an editor of a fairly new junior high school periodical called READ.

It was published by WeeklyReader Corporation.

I had two shots

Bennett Lapiner

Doesn't say it's basketball, have to guess

Being a loyal member of NCTE, each year (except the year he retired) he attended the NCTE annual convention wherever it was held to attend workshops.

Missed first=pressure

Adam Kessler

Mood

Where it takes place and what is going on

Made second-won playoff game

He also came to NCTE conventions to interview the most recently published young adult authors--writers like Robert Cormier, Lois Lowry, Kathleen Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Jerry Spinelli, among others.

Clutch, very similar

The boy is nervous and tense and the crowd is excited and waiting for the right moment to cheer.

Nerve wracking, suspenseful

When he retired in 1997, after 36 years as editor of READ, Weekly Reader Corporation and NCTE joined hands to honor his valuable contribution to middle school teachers and, over the years, millions of middle school readers.

-They are at a basketball game

-There is a noisy cheering crowd

-A boy is shooting free throws

-The score is tied and this shot decides the winner

The nervous but focused boy takes the shot and the room is anxious and waiting silently.

The air is filled with suspense and every eye is watching the boy making him even more tense.

Andrew Ben-porat

Connor Kelly

When the shot goes into the hoop the room is filled with screams of joy and every face in the room is cheering with pride.

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