| The Stars That Never Shine: The Making of A Superbowl
Footbal Player Student Empowerment Workbook |
| by Joseph A. Harris and W. Calvin Anderson, M.Ed |
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| This is an Educational Workbook Instructionally
Designed for 8th to 12th Graders for ELA Literacy and for reducing obesity and
encouraging student athletes. |
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| This workbook is great for use by: |
• Teachers, mentors, Coaches and Parents and
Learners in: GA, NYS, CT, Washington, DC, NC, VA
• Schools for “in-service” English Language Arts Class to Supplement the Course
• Parents to share discussions about sports, school requirements and dreams of
the future
• Coaches and mentors to guide education and upwardly mobile mental toughness
about sports and necessary life-skills
• Tutors who want to engage learners using sports
• Any reader because too often statewide English Language Arts tests don’t give
you a choice what you will read so you can practice with this workbook also
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| ABOUT THE SPORTS & EDUCATION WORKBOOK
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| The workbook has been developed by a licensed
and experienced educator to help developing readers, and particular
student/athletes to practice or tutor others by: |
• practicing responding to literature like in
their English class and on mandated tests,
• searching the Internet for research on their school, grade level expectations,
• understanding preparations and expectations for excellence in middle school,
high school, college and pro sports,
• working daily at their personal and family relationships,
• better understanding the value of getting a job and the knowing benefits of
greater financial literacy. |
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| The personal autobiography has relevant
“talking-points” for youth development that includes: |
• working on my granddads farm in North Carolina
with people of all nationalities
• growing up in a family with not much money and working as a shoeshine boy, and
in a grocery store
• meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and members of the Klu Klux Klan face to
face
• playing basketball and football and getting a scholarship to college at the
prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
• graduating from GT, getting drafted by the NFL and playing in the Super Bowl |
