11th Grade
Summer Reading 2008

Walk-On
by Alan Williams

Walk On is being read by the whole school this summer.  The author, Alan Williams, plans to visit Pillow several times next year to talk to classes about writing and his experiences.  Your assignment is as follows:  For each of the following quotations from Walk On, explain how it relates to the book and/or to your own life.

Ch 2    p8 Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them- anonymous
Ch 5    p27 I’ll Make It.     Jimmy Chitwood (Hoosiers)
Ch 8    p46 As for the players, one through thirteen, each was important. Otherwise he  wouldn’t have been on the team.   Dean Smith
Ch 10  p60 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  Philippians 4:13
Ch 13  p85 Ability is what you’re capable of doing. 
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.  Lou Holtz
Ch 15 p100 The only place you can win a football game is on the field.  The only place you can lose it is in your heart.  Darrell Royal
Ch 18 p121 When you are doing what you love to do, no one has to motivate you.
Rick Warren
Ch 20 p 138 I don’t want to be their coach.  I don’t want to be their agent.  And I don’t want to be their promoter.  I just want to be their dad.  Bill Walton
Ch. 21 p149 Teach us to number our days so that we might gain a heart of wisdom.  Psalm 90:12   our prayers.  Rick Warren
Ch. 23 p168  This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.  Romans 3:22-24
Ch 26 p186 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.  Mark 10:45
Ch. 28 p197 A walk-on’s role was not about playing time, autographs, or ESPN.  Being a walk-on was about practice; that is where we made our difference.  Alan Williams

 
     


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