https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux Becoming Kareem Growing up on and off the court en-us 2018-12-03 18:06:52 UTC 2019-01-23 21:18:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Basketball.png duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314936196 Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Becoming Kareem: Growing up on and off the Court. 
Hachette Book Group,
2017.

]]> 2018-12-16 04:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314936196 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314936564 - when Kareem was a child he had a bully by the name of Cecilia. She would beat, and chase him at the play ground and even after baseball practice. " More than once she chased me around the playground near our house. I'd try to outrun her but she was fast and relentless." Pg.4]]> 2018-12-16 04:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314936564 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314937603 - When Kareem was in third grade his classmate Michael brought a Polaroid camera to school and the class took a picture with it, after snapping the photo and letting it develop he noticed how his skin color looked so different from the rest of his classmates no matter which angle he looked. Tilting the glossy photo int he harsh classroom light didn't change anything. I was still black." Pg.6 ]]> 2018-12-16 04:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314937603 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314937834 - I attended a strict catholic school." Pg. 6 where the boys had to wear basic white shirts, blue ties, and navy blue slacks, and the girls wore jumpers and knee high socks. ]]> 2018-12-16 04:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314937834 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314938081 _ He would pull occasional pranks such as pulling chairs from under people.  " I was still Lew who played occasional pranks at school, mostly slapstick stuff i saw the Three Stooges do on TV." Pg. 7-8]]> 2018-12-16 04:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314938081 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314938288 - Johnny was Kareem's best friend , they didn't let anyone pick on each other, they were in little league together, and they would always build toy models with one another. " As far as both of us were concerned, we were both each other's brother. Color didn't matter." Pg. 8]]> 2018-12-16 04:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314938288 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314939352 - Kareem's parents always wanted him to do good but mostly in school, where they would make him read and do homework all the time. "My parents taught me that education was the key to success, and they did their best to act as cheerleaders to my studies." Pg.10-11]]> 2018-12-16 05:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/314939352 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317721189 when Kareem was in fourth grade his parents sent him to a all black boarding school, during his time there he had a bully. The particular day Sylvester thought it was funny to dump marbles out his dorm window, Kareem later told on him and Sylvester beat him up. 
" I told them the truth. They punished Sylvester, but he punished me much worse." Pg. 26]]> 2019-01-07 02:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317721189 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317721948 after Kareem got back to New York from boarding school he deiced to join little league again, but there was one problem he had to ride his bike through a neighborhood that wasn't so excepting. " So when they saw me biking through their their neighborhood in my uniform with my baseball glove, they would chase after me hollering.." Pg. 34]]> 2019-01-07 02:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317721948 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317722557 The counselors took the kids to a George Washington high school so they could go swimming, while having fun splashing in the water Kareem noticed that he hadn't seen his best friends little sister for a while so he took a look around and because he was so tall he spotted her right away drowning in they pool, but he was right in time and saved her. "I quickly waded over to her, snatched her up by the arms, and dragged her to the side of the pool. She coughed up pool water but otherwise she was okay." Pg. ]]> 2019-01-07 02:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317722557 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317723241 In sixth grade Kareem felt as if Johnny was drifting apart from him he was starting to hand out with his other friends. "After a while, we barely nodded to each other in the hallway." Pg. 36]]> 2019-01-07 02:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317723241 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317724443 one day during seventh grade in the lunch room Lew(Kareem) was joking with a friend about twilight, after sharing a few comments they shared a few nudges and Lew pushed a little to hard and his friend bumped into Johnny( former best friend) and Johnny got up, and long story short they had a little fight. ]]> 2019-01-07 02:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317724443 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317726233 Coach Hopkins had a college boy by the name of George Hejduk, help Lew(Kareem) work on his basket ball game, and George taught Lew how to do the Mikan drill. ]]> 2019-01-07 03:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317726233 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317726654 By seventh grade Lew was no longer a bench warmer and he was actually contributing to the team. During the seventh grade season the team got new uniforms and they got to choose what number they wanted so Lew choose number 33 because that was the number of New York Giants fullback Mel Triplett. ]]> 2019-01-07 03:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317726654 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317727320 After his first month at his new high school he earned a spot on the honor role. ]]> 2019-01-07 03:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317727320 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317727955 Lew had the need to change the view of one of his peers by giving him knowledge about what his ancestors had to go through just to get into America. ]]> 2019-01-07 03:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317727955 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317728188 Lew was having a horrible migraine so he stumbled into the closest closet he could find and sat there until it went away, during that time he realized he was having those really bad headaches because of physical threats such as when he went to holy providence, and when he sees racism happening in the south. ]]> 2019-01-07 03:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317728188 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317729536 Lew and his friend Wes were at a basketball event when they seen Wilt Chamberlain, Lew had been idolizing him for a long time so when him and Wes walked over to Wilt and introduced themselves he felt great, But even better when Wilt had heard of him and complemented on his height. ]]> 2019-01-07 03:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/317729536 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/322447467 He applied to work for the heritage teaching program, to help kids stay off the streets and learn about their heritage. ]]> 2019-01-20 03:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/322447467 duckwjai000 https://padlet.com/duckwjai000/c9wikubau4ux/wish/322447785 During his freshman year of college he made one of his closest life long friends Jimmy Johnson, and just like him he shared an interest in poetry, jazz, and basketball, both of them even ended up playing on the Milwaukee bucks and the Los angles Lakers. 

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