Challenge Activities- America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
Day 1:
What adjectives does a sports writer use to describe a sports event? How do the words add to the excitement or drama of the event?
1. Make a list of six adjectives sports writers use to describe various sports events.
action in a positive or negative way.
Day 2:
Make a list of people who were the first to do something. Which person do you most admire?
Your questions should focus on what this person was the first to do, why they
Wanted to be first, and how the goal was reached.
Day 3:
How is a sports report in a newspaper different from a fictional story about sports? From an expository nonfiction article about a sport?
Day 4:
Why do people try to break records? What records in the Guiness Book of World Records do you think can be broken?
1. List five unusual feats that have been listed as world records.
2. Search the internet with the keyword Guiness World Records and Amazing Feats
to get information.
3. Choose your favorite feat and tell why you think it can be broken..
Day 5:
Why do we need heroes?
1. Make a list of three people you think are heroes.
2. Choose a hero and write a paragraph about why heroes, and this one in
particular, are important.