As a prereading activity, teach a lesson on figurative language and use. Ball dont lie is a book about a seventeen year old boy named sticky. With ball dont lie, wallace keeps technicals flowing. Iverson says ball dont lie, then asks for ball and scores duration. Your daily life span will probably be change when you full. Though travis reichard is the protagonists given name, his moniker is sticky. Music bleeding out of old rattling speakers from open to close. He has a passion for basketball and he sees it for his way out of his problems. Hes 6 3 tall, with a handsome chiseled and tan face and a few zig zag scars, and his home is the street. Rasheed wallace keeps technicals flowing with ball dont lie. Ball dont lie is a 2008 film directed by brin hill. With rosanna arquette, grayson boucher, ludacris, nick cannon.
Ball dont lie faculty book excerpt gotham writers workshop. Ball don t lie 2009 dvdrip xvid hq marvelous torrent download hit. A sad, sweet book about a young foster kid growing up on basketball and the. Shaquille oneal, isiah thomas, grant hill and tina thompson. A phrase commonly used by professional basketball player rasheed wallace. The analysis first explains how ball dont lie counters what can be called. This study guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of ball don t lie. As a prereading activity, teach a lesson on figurative language and use synectic boxes to learn about similes. Ball dont lie sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. Pagina ufficiale del torneo di basket ball dont lie latina. The book is a gritty comingofage story of a troubled throwaway named sticky his real name, travis reichard, is rarely used.
A skinny high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california burdened with early life tragedy callous foster care and obsessivecompulsive disorder, sticky manages to surpass his limits whenever he has a ball in his hands. The bulletin sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the. Dec 05, 2012 rasheed wallaces ball dont lie catchphrase suggests that the ball is the ultimate arbiter of oncourt justice, but recently those words have mostly meant punishment for him. Sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. Ball don t lie 2009 dvdrip xvid hq marvelous torrent.
Ball don t lie 2008 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. How a dark gym like lincoln rec is a different world. The film premiered at the 2008 tribeca film festival. Your typical young adult book is going to generally have a set of young characters, some element of romance, and your stereotypical coming of age story where the main protagonist grows and develops as a character. Retired basketball player rasheed wallace was the worlds foremost proponent of ball dont lie as a way of life. This study guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of ball dont lie. Ball dont lie 2008 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Sticky and anhthu were at the park, playing a game, when sticky yelled at her for talking about his mom. Ball dont lie plays out over one day in the life of sticky, a skinny 17yearold high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california. The protagonist sticky is a boy from the slums of california who spent a large portion of his life in an orphanage. Jan 29, 2014 ball dont lie is full of powerful imagery, metaphors, and similes.
Before he retired, he left behind this exemplum of the phrases use. Yahoo sports vanessa bryant gives first look at kobe bryants new novel, titled geese are never swans nba legend bill russell rips president trumps opposition to mailin ballots. As a pre reading activity, teach a lesson on figurative language and use. Ball dont lie is a collection of indepth, inyourface conversations examining an assortment of basketballs defining moments. Hes a white boy who always go to the rec center surrounded by black people who test him. Look for his other books, mexican whiteboy, we were here, i will save you, the living, which was named a pura belpre honor book, and the hunted, all available from delacorte press. The bulletinsticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. Ball don t lie is said when a player misses one, two or all three of his free throws after a questionable read as. Full of theft and dunk, smooth jumpers and fragile egos. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. He attended the university of the pacific on a basketball scholarship and went on to earn a master of fine arts in creative writing at san diego state university.
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Ball dont lie hardback or cased book item information. We have read through and i am sure that i will going to read once again once again in the future. Ball dont lie has these to ball dont lie is something of an oddity among books specific to the young adult genre. He attended the university of the pacific on a basketball scholarship and went on to earn a master of fine arts in creative writing at san diego state. From the very first sentence, this book grabbed me and didnt let go. It stars and1 mixtape team member grayson boucher, a. Ball dont lie is full of powerful imagery, metaphors, and similes.
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