Reading Strategies Metacognitive Journal

Strategy Predict: Make a smart guess about whats going to happen next Quotation In the meantime, the 1990s took a horrific toll on the kids who only a few years earlier had come over to play at the McClains house (Merlino 255) My Response After reading this quote, I am guessing that something horrific will happen to a few of the players that used to be on the team. Based on the fact that we already know Tyrell was murdered, I think a couple of the other players will be killed or seriously injured. A lot of the players that had once called McClains team home made a wrong turn in life and eventually sunk too deep into the poor lifestyle choices that surrounded them. Therefore, it would not be unlikely for a few of the players to be killed or assaulted due to gang violence or robbery. He claimed that in the After reading this sentence I found that I early hours of August 8, understood its meaning, but I failed to Mike had knocked on his understand in what circumstances people door, asked to borrow leave/take collateral and why it is needed. the gun back- Rollins said Dictionary.com defines it as security Mike told him he had to pledged for the payment of a loan. In meet a guy to do some other words, it is any material possession or business- and left his cell idea to be held in exchange for a loan of phone collateral. some sort (i.e. money, place to live, car, (Merlino 275) etc.). In this case Mike left his cell phone as collateral, because Rollins lent Mike his gun. The place was one large Despite the fact that these words are room with a hip, industrial describing an inner-city gymnasium, it feel- brick walls, a high sounds as though it is describing a loft atop ceiling criss-crossed by the big city. The wooden beams and silver exposed wooden beams duct work that laces the industrial style and silver venting ducts ceiling matches the brick walls exposed on (Merlino 217) the inside of the gym. This sounds identical to many innovative living spaces and/or restaurants such as Kitcheners Wildcraft restaurant and Kaufman Lofts. This shifting economic When the landscape of the economic/ landscape ushered in business world changed, was it primarily what was labeled in the white men who lost their job? Newsweek media a crisis in called it, white male paranoia suggesting masculinity or, as that he black men were not paranoid; were Newsweek put it, white the black men paranoid? Did they call it the male paranoia.(Merlino crisis in masculinity because people 263) considered it to be emasculating when you could no longer provide for your family? These quotes were given very little context, and I wish that Doug spent more time

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explaining the meaning behind them. Make One morning over Reading this sentence reminded me of all Connections: breakfast at a South End our late night road trips to America, Connect IHOP(Merlino 258) stopping in the early morning at the local what youre IHOP to grab some pancakes before we hit reading to the road again. Just like Doug is visiting the something IHOP to bond with an old friend, I have else some fond memories of bonding with my family at IHOP too. Summarize: Doug visits the rest of his teammates in hopes to reconnect. Doug was Retell what successful in reconnecting with his teammates, only to find out that happened in Coach McClains team could be the reason for so many of his friends the story so achievements and blunders in life. From murders to hedge funds and all far the way to rural Oregon, Doug is astonished by how his friends lives turned out. In an effort to give the rest of the team a chance to meet up with their childhood friends, Doug later calls up all the players and schedules a meeting at a community centre in Seattle where the men will play together one last time. This gives the men a chance to play together, and afterwards reflect on how the team had an impact on their lives. After all is done, they leave the team behind to return to their lives, but the spirit of the team doesnt leave them.