Vince Papale joined the track team at his high school but was recruited by a rough-touch football league at the same time. He got a scholarship for college because of his track experience, but eventually graduated from college with hopes of being a PE teacher and coach. He got his wish, and became an excellent coach that turned a run-down track program into an award-winning one. 

So, I've started reading Invincible, and it's really interesting. Vince Papale started out as a poor kid in the bad side of town, but he was a fast runner. His mom suffered with a brain issue, something about delerium, and his father worked a lot. He was really small, but athletic and he was really competitive. I've not gotten to past his childhood, so I'll blog when I have read more.

TEOGROMITMM

Well, this play is certainly... interesting. It's realistic fiction, which is easier to read than Romeo and Juliet, but also harder when I'm always visualizing how it looks in the present. All I can say is; what a confusing family! Some things make a lot of sense, like about their father, but other things don't- like how the mother is acting like a teenager herself. I mean, why would she be hitting on the teacher when she should be taking care of Nanna and her daughters. It's not exactly that it doesn't make sense as much as it just frustrates me... Anyway, this play is interesting enough to keep my attention.

Romeo and Juliet

I love this book! It is brilliant... I love how everyone speaks so poetically and beautifully. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of concentration to read, so when I'm reading I have to think as well... :)

Romeo and Juliet act 1

So far the characters are kind of confusing... I'm not exactly sure who's on what "side", but I can pretty much get  what's happening. As for the language; OH MY GOODNESS!!!! It's like a whole different dialect! They use such different words, they could be talking about something completely different than what they actually are... It is mostly confusing, but it seems like there is a tiny glimmer of understanding interspersed throughout. I really like it so far, it's much better comparreed to the Odyssey, plus I really enjoy reading it in script form, as we are learning about theatre terminology in theatre class at school.

Act 2

actor/actress:
Thoreau- Johnny Depp
Lydian- Meryl Streep
Bailey- Channing Tatum
Thoreau's protest seems like a total failure in the end because no one was listening to him.

The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail; Act 1

"Our own school, John. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All we need is the sky!"
Definition of transcendalism: any system of philosiphy, esp that of Kant, holding that the key to knowledge of the nature of reality lies in the critical examination of the processes of reason on which depends the nature of experience. --dictionary.reference.com
This quote is practically the definition of transcendalism. Henry is wanting to be able to expand the thought "walls" of the students' minds to beyond that what they are currently. Reality is what is happening right now, and Henry wants the students to realize that. He also wants them to experience nature at it's finest, to go to what is natural, to be free. For their knowledge and minds to be free of the dismal classroom, where imagination is "boxed" and confined  and stifled.