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  1. Yesterday you talked about things you knew and care about and made list in your WNB. Today you will be writing more about the topics from your list. You should write as much information about your topics as possible. Do what I did below with the topic Xavier Basketball with one of your topics.

    Lesson 2 Writing off your list

    Xavier Basketball
    -Cintas Center: Located on campus. Built within the last 10 years. Father Hoff’s dream. Students center is attached. Banquet Hall Room overlooks the court. Wedding Receptions, reunions and other events are held in the banquest room. On the otherside is the Joseph club. The Joseph club sits above the court too. It is all glass view onto the court. You can get speciality food and drinks in the Joseph Club. It takes a special ticket to get in. Suites are located on the sides of the center. Each suite holds about 25 people. It is like having a living room at the game.

    -Coaches: Sean Miller is the current coach. He was an assistant at Xavier before he got the head coach gig. Sean played basketball at Pitt University. He is famous for making the pass to Jerome Lane when he shattered the backboard with a dunk.

    Skip Prosser left Xavier for Wake Forest. Skip was a run a gun coach. His team’s like to push the ball. Skip had okay success in the NCAA Tournament. Skip was an assistant at Xavier before he went to Loyola, Maryland for a year. Skip was named head coach after Pete Gillian left. Skip suffered an untimely heart attack this past summer.

    Pete Gillan coached Xavier to several NCAA appearances before leaving for Providence University. Pete looked a lot like David Letterman. He was known for his funny comments.

    - Players: Byron Larkin is the leading scorer in Xavier history. He is analyst for XU right now. Byron is one of the elading scorers in NCAA history. He lead XU to an NCAA upset of Mizzou in 1990.

    Tyron Hill was a power forward at Xavier in the late 80s and early 90s. He was part of the team that beat Georgetown for a trip to the Sweet 16.

    David West was a star player in the early 2000s. West was a first round draft pick of New Orleans. He was named college player of the year.

    Writing Time
    Choose one item from your list to start writing about. You should write some key words that remind you of this topic. Then, in sentences, write everything you can about the topic.

  2. ohio state buckeys
    -uniforms:The colors are red,white,and gray.
    -coach:The coach of the ohio state buckeys is Jim Tressel.
    -players:Some players from the team is Troy Smith and Ted Ginn jr.

  3. In lesson #2, I wrote everything I knew about Xavier basketball. This lesson, I will list questions I have about Xavier basketball.

    Who is Sean Miller’s family?
    Who came up with the idea for the Cintas Center?
    What does Byron Larkin do now?
    Which player has the most points in school history?
    Who coached at Xavier longest?

    List any questions you have about your topic.

  4. how many years had jim coached?
    what was the best year for them?
    who was the best running back?
    who was the very first coach?
    who was the best WR?
    who was the best punter?
    what years were they champians?

  5. how many years had jim coached? 22 years
    what was the best peiried for them? 2002 14-0
    who was the very first coach? Alexander S. Lilley
    who was the best running back? Archie Griffin
    who was the best WR? David Boston
    who was the best punter?
    what years were they champians?

  6. how many years had jim coached? 22 years
    what was the best peiried for them? 2002 14-0
    who was the very first coach? Alexander S. Lilley
    who was the best running back? Archie Griffin
    who was the best WR? David Boston
    who was the best punt returner? David Boston
    what years were they champians? 1942,1954,1957,1961,1968,1970,and 2002

  7. The buckeys are in the tunnle in their pads and uniforms.You can almost hear them banging their gray and red hellmets.They are yelling in exitment.They are coming out on to the feild in their red and white uniforms.The crowd goes to the yelling and screaming.The crowd is all in red at the game.Their pants are grey with red stripes.

    Jim has coached for the buckeys 22 years.Jim used to coach for youngstown state,but he is coaching for ohio state now.Sometimes he gives good plays.Sometimes he doesn`t.Sometimes he calls the same plays.But he is pretty good at plays.

    Four players I know are Troy Smith,Ted Ginn jr,Cris Wells(Beany Wells),and Todd Beckman.They are all great players.Troy and Ted are in the NFL becuse they were really good.Troy is playing for the ravens and Ted is playing for the dolfins.Cris and Todd is still playing for the buckeys.I hope they have a great year.


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