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Read: Greetings! How are you? I want to springboard off of the Ted…

Read: Greetings! How are you? I want to springboard off of the Ted Talk about Marathon Running and Women Runners. ** If pressed for time just watch the video with the following link. The Real Story – Read:

Greetings! How are you? I want to springboard off of the Ted Talk about Marathon Running and Women Runners. ** If pressed for time just watch the video with the following link. The Real Story – Kathrine Switzer – Marathon Woman Link:

https://kathrineswitzer.com/1967-boston-

marathon-the-real-story/ It’s amazing to think how this wasn’t really that long ago…

Fast forward now? If anyone watched the Tokyo Olympics, you saw something no one had seen before: Olympic Skateboarding.

And the kids just Ruled the sport! Would there have even been a Sky Brown without Kathrine Switzer? One will never know, but having watched Sky Brown slay my hometown skate park for about three years now, I’m all in on team Sky. Haven’t seen this kid shred? Take a quick break (she was nine when this was filmed…..WHAAAAT!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=dzKdmik3iUM (Links to an external site.)

Fast Forward:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

V=MJVu4049WmE (Links to an external site.) * “START WITH WHY” Another line from Simon Sinek and his Ted Talk As in: narratives? Ask me this question later if you are among those who will be writing college application letters or scholarships But more to the point: these narratives will help you prepare to write the final essay in this class.

Have a quick scroll through these award recipients — notice anything in their collective comments with their conclusions? Transforming Lives Awards 2019 (sbctc.edu) (Links to an external site.)

Underdogs are all around us — they come to us from fiction, yes, but some of the most powerful, inspirational narratives come to us via non-fiction, history, and biography. You might be the underdog now –with/without even knowing it. As we are all figuring out here 🙂 **** SO…I dedicate this lesson to you out there — you know who you are — after our discussions this week. You’re not the first David with doubts I’ve met. But the

“Pack stays Together” and I will see it through that your personal Goliath meets the fate he deserves. I think adults sometimes forget just how hard it is for young people to look at the world out there

— and figure out a way to see them functioning/living/ in it years from now after school. You will. Boy was I there too, and I haven’t forgotten that feeling, but I have friends to help me when they say: “you’ve got this” –Tony Hawk *** DIRECTIONS:

TWO Paragraph Reply 1st: What are your comments/thoughts/questions about this posting? Please be detailed in your repose.

2nd: What are you grappling with for Essay TWO: material/direction/line of reasoning/problems finding a topic? Let us know. 

Please explain how that works We all learn from each other. Or as Christopher McDougal says: “The Hunting Pack stays

Together” Let’s hunt