unit4-A-Fan’s-Notes.pptVIP

Before Reading_5.1 Cerebral Palsy Maternal smoking, alcohol consumption, and ingestion of certain drugs can also contribute to the disease. Most cases are associated with prenatal problems and about 10% of the cases are thought to be due to oxygen deficiency during the birth process. The severity of the affliction is dependent on the extent of the brain damage. Those with mild cases may have only a few affected muscles, while severe cases can result in total loss of coordination or paralysis. Globe Reading.1.1 Globe Reading.2.1 I could bear to look at nothing else, so I stared at that smile, and it was so clear, so certain, it even cut through most of my doubts. But still, I wondered. This is Sarah Morris? She began shaking in her chair, emitting sounds. I thought she was coughing. Words and Expressions After Reading_5.1 After Reading_5.2 After Reading_6.1 After Reading_6.2 She was, instead, speaking. Her mother interpreted. “I want to show you something,” Sarah said. Lois rolled her up to an old desk on cinder blocks. On the desk was a computer. Next to it was a TV. Her mother fastened a head pointer around her daughter’s temples. Sarah leaned over the computer and used her pointer to call up a story on the Dodger Place website. Peck by peck, she began adding to that story. She looked up and giggled. I looked down in wonder — and shame. This was indeed Sarah Morris. The great Sarah Morris. I had contacted Sarah Morris months earlier looking for a fight. I realized now, watching her strain in this dark room to type words that perhaps no other soul will read, that I had found that fight. What was the author’s real purpose in answering sarah’s email in the beginning? Only, it wasn’t with Sarah. It was with myself. It is the same fight the sports world experiences daily in these times of cynicism. The fight to trust that athletes can still be heroes. In a place far from such doubt, with a mind filled with wonder, Sarah Morris had brought me back. What did the fig