Monday, December 21, 2009
250-300
Hi I have now finished my book. It was great. I learned so much from it. It was very inspirational. I totally recommend it to others. It ended by finalizing the results of his Olympic journey. It was a great book. It was about his swimming career. It was also about dreaming big, setting your goals very high and working hard to achieve them.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
200/250
If you could rewrite anything about your book what is it and why?
I wouldn't rewrite anything about my book.
Hi, today I'm gonna tell another story about Michael Phelps. I find it very interesting, hopefully you do to. Okay so it happened last year at the Beijing Olympics. Michael was about to go for his seventh gold medal in a single Olympics. This would tie Mark Spitz's record. The race he was about to be competing in was the 200 meter fly. This was actually the only race out of is 8 that he was not predicted to win. So you could say the odds were not on his side. What happened next, once the race started lowered is chances yet again. Once his head went under the water his goggles started to fill up with water. This is not a good thing at all. It completely blurred Mikes vision to the point where he had to close his eyes. I guess something was broken on his goggles and he hadn't realised it before his race. This has happened to him many times before but never in the most important race of his life! His coach Bob knew something was wrong, he could tell by Michael's swimming form. At this point he had to completely guess on how many strokes to swim because he couldn't see where the wall was. He still got first place under the world record time. This shows how much of an amazing athlete Mike Phelps is. It was most defiantly a scare for him, but his will to win and to be a champion plus all the work got him through it.
I wouldn't rewrite anything about my book.
Hi, today I'm gonna tell another story about Michael Phelps. I find it very interesting, hopefully you do to. Okay so it happened last year at the Beijing Olympics. Michael was about to go for his seventh gold medal in a single Olympics. This would tie Mark Spitz's record. The race he was about to be competing in was the 200 meter fly. This was actually the only race out of is 8 that he was not predicted to win. So you could say the odds were not on his side. What happened next, once the race started lowered is chances yet again. Once his head went under the water his goggles started to fill up with water. This is not a good thing at all. It completely blurred Mikes vision to the point where he had to close his eyes. I guess something was broken on his goggles and he hadn't realised it before his race. This has happened to him many times before but never in the most important race of his life! His coach Bob knew something was wrong, he could tell by Michael's swimming form. At this point he had to completely guess on how many strokes to swim because he couldn't see where the wall was. He still got first place under the world record time. This shows how much of an amazing athlete Mike Phelps is. It was most defiantly a scare for him, but his will to win and to be a champion plus all the work got him through it.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
146/200
Three questions and a summary... Do you think all the hard work has paid off? Could you have won the 8 golds without the support of your coach and family? Who inspired you to become who you are today?
Hi, today I am going to talk about some obstacles that Michael has overcome in is Journey to 8 Olympic golds. I will tell you an interesting story that I have learned so far by reading No Limits. Michael has done some really great things in his life, but as you know everyone makes mistakes, even Michael Phelps. In November of 2004, Michael made one of the biggest mistakes of his life. He and a good friend decided to go visit another friend in a college town in Maryland. Michael says that the friend made sure to tell him before the party no drinking and driving. Michael even made the comment "come on that's not me". During the party he decided to go get some food. At this time he had already had three beers. While on his way to get food he made the mistake of rolling through a stop sign. A cop car happened to be behind him and pulled him over. The trooper gave him a breathalyzer test. His blood-alcohol reading measured o.o8, precisely the Maryland state standard for driving under the influence. Not only did he get a DUI, he also got ticketed for under age drinking because he wasn't 21 yet. Michael's consequences were to pay 305 dollars in fines and court costs. He also had to attend a meeting of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and to speak at a number of schools about drinking, driving, and decision making. Michael said to one of the high schools. " The night that I got behind the wheel after drinking I had lost sight of my goals." "I was not thinking, as I should have been, about Beijing and 2008." " "In order to make good decisions, you really have to see the whole picture." "I guess you could say my head wasn't really on straight.. my goals were not in order when I got behind the wheel." Phelps goes on to say that no way that he would wish the experience, any of it on anyone, but he says it changed his life. It reminded him in the most direct way possible that no one is so important that he deserves to be treated any differently than anybody else. He says the experience also led him in one of those connections in life that, after it happens, seems like one of those things that was all along somehow meant to be. After this experience Michael realised what he was doing to his future and that he needed to kick it in gear if he wanted any chance at all of getting his 8 golds. From there on out for the next three and a half years He worked his butt off. By reading about this I have actually learned from Michael's mistake and know not to make the same mistake.
Hi, today I am going to talk about some obstacles that Michael has overcome in is Journey to 8 Olympic golds. I will tell you an interesting story that I have learned so far by reading No Limits. Michael has done some really great things in his life, but as you know everyone makes mistakes, even Michael Phelps. In November of 2004, Michael made one of the biggest mistakes of his life. He and a good friend decided to go visit another friend in a college town in Maryland. Michael says that the friend made sure to tell him before the party no drinking and driving. Michael even made the comment "come on that's not me". During the party he decided to go get some food. At this time he had already had three beers. While on his way to get food he made the mistake of rolling through a stop sign. A cop car happened to be behind him and pulled him over. The trooper gave him a breathalyzer test. His blood-alcohol reading measured o.o8, precisely the Maryland state standard for driving under the influence. Not only did he get a DUI, he also got ticketed for under age drinking because he wasn't 21 yet. Michael's consequences were to pay 305 dollars in fines and court costs. He also had to attend a meeting of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and to speak at a number of schools about drinking, driving, and decision making. Michael said to one of the high schools. " The night that I got behind the wheel after drinking I had lost sight of my goals." "I was not thinking, as I should have been, about Beijing and 2008." " "In order to make good decisions, you really have to see the whole picture." "I guess you could say my head wasn't really on straight.. my goals were not in order when I got behind the wheel." Phelps goes on to say that no way that he would wish the experience, any of it on anyone, but he says it changed his life. It reminded him in the most direct way possible that no one is so important that he deserves to be treated any differently than anybody else. He says the experience also led him in one of those connections in life that, after it happens, seems like one of those things that was all along somehow meant to be. After this experience Michael realised what he was doing to his future and that he needed to kick it in gear if he wanted any chance at all of getting his 8 golds. From there on out for the next three and a half years He worked his butt off. By reading about this I have actually learned from Michael's mistake and know not to make the same mistake.
Monday, December 7, 2009
104-146
Hi, now in my book it has been telling about many of Michael's swim story's through out his life. The book is kind of divided up into different sections, not really chapters. Each section tells about different swim races that Michael raced at the Olympics on his journey to 8 gold medals at a single Olympics. He tells a story about how another Olympic swimmer from another country named Ian Thorpe. Michael and Ian built a rivalry through out there swimming careers. Ian swims for the Australian team. Michael of course for the USA. Ian is one of the best ever for his country, Michael is one of the best for his. Michael tells about a time before the Athen's Olympics in 2004. I guess Ian or someone associated with Ian was bragging how Ian was so much better than Michael and Michael wasn't going to break Mark Spitz's record of 8 golds. This furiated Michael. Michael is the kind of guy where he uses anything he can for motivation. This defiantly motivated Michael. Michael got the words that were said about him and put them on paper, and put the paper in his training locker. He would look at it everyday before he trained and this would motivate him to work really hard. Thats pretty much all I have read so far.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
pgs1-104
Give a physical description as well as a description of each character's personality. Does the author use a direct or indirect method of revealing the character?
My book No Limits is written by Michael Phelps. Michael is a professional swimmer. In my book michael tells about his life and how he got started swimming. In the first couple chapters the book tells about how michael didnt like swimming at first when his mom put him in swimming classes at age five. He tells how his mom hired him a swim coach named Bob. Bob is Michael's coach still today. Bob has kind of been a father figure to Michael sense Michael's dad has not been a very big part of his life. Michael tells about how he was such an active youngster with a ton of energy. He was involved in many different sports, but later just narrowed them down to one sport. Swimming being that one sport. This was a tough decision for Michael because he loved sports, but he knew in all reality he didnt have the chance to be a professional in other sports that he did in swimming. Michael then goes on to tell about how he would write goals on a sheet of paper, and show them to Bob and even if the goals were not realistic Bob wouldn't tell Michael. People, not Bob, would tell Michael that he couldn't do something, that he wasn't good enough. This would motivate Michael. As the book goes on Michael starts telling about later in his life how he qualified for the Olympics for the first time. He tell's a bunch of storys of his first olympic expierence. He didnt achieve the goals he had in mind at this Olympic, this just motivated him to set higher goals and work hard to achieve them. The book tell's how During training Michael fell and broke a bone which took him out of training for awhile. It then tells about how he set a goal to win 8 gold medals at the next olympic's. This would be one of the greatest accomplishments of any swimmer ever if he could achieve this, this is where im at now.
My book No Limits is written by Michael Phelps. Michael is a professional swimmer. In my book michael tells about his life and how he got started swimming. In the first couple chapters the book tells about how michael didnt like swimming at first when his mom put him in swimming classes at age five. He tells how his mom hired him a swim coach named Bob. Bob is Michael's coach still today. Bob has kind of been a father figure to Michael sense Michael's dad has not been a very big part of his life. Michael tells about how he was such an active youngster with a ton of energy. He was involved in many different sports, but later just narrowed them down to one sport. Swimming being that one sport. This was a tough decision for Michael because he loved sports, but he knew in all reality he didnt have the chance to be a professional in other sports that he did in swimming. Michael then goes on to tell about how he would write goals on a sheet of paper, and show them to Bob and even if the goals were not realistic Bob wouldn't tell Michael. People, not Bob, would tell Michael that he couldn't do something, that he wasn't good enough. This would motivate Michael. As the book goes on Michael starts telling about later in his life how he qualified for the Olympics for the first time. He tell's a bunch of storys of his first olympic expierence. He didnt achieve the goals he had in mind at this Olympic, this just motivated him to set higher goals and work hard to achieve them. The book tell's how During training Michael fell and broke a bone which took him out of training for awhile. It then tells about how he set a goal to win 8 gold medals at the next olympic's. This would be one of the greatest accomplishments of any swimmer ever if he could achieve this, this is where im at now.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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