Hammond+Jerald

672 Saratoga Place Boston, MA 02120-3857

July 15,2012

Ms. Annette Banks 91 Kenwood Street Brookline, MA 02446-2412

Dear Ms. Banks

At our meeting this summer, we decided to dedicate one unit of instruction to John F. Kennedy. As you will recall, I was assigned the responsibility for proposing a curriculum for this particular unit of instruction.

The possibilities of what to include in this unit were unlimited. it was very difficult squeezing everything into a one-week unit. However, I enjoyed the challenge of trying to do so. JFK is one of my favorite Presidents: many of my childhood memories are centered around the few short years years that he was President.

What do you think of taking our classes on our tour of his birthplace? The home he was born in at Beals Street is now a National Historic Site. Wouldn't this be a great way to conclude our unit and impress upon our students that the 35th Presidentof the United States

Basketball is different from baseball, because basketball is a team sport and it teaches accountability on how to play basketball and the players pour their blood, sweat, and tears into the game of basketball. The only things that are the same is the balls are round, both sports are physical and inquires contact and both have to run and when you are fouled in basketball, you have to shoot free throws.

Baseball you hit the ball to get a homerun or you have to hit it out the foul ball area and to get a homerun you have to hit it over the fence and it tells you how far you hit it over. If the ball hit the ground into the out field it is a ground-rule-double or if you hit a foul ball you get a strike and hit another one thats strike two. Baseball is one person against the pitcher, the catcher, the infielders, and the outfielders so basically its you verses 11 or twelve people. Plus you get to chew sunflower seeds while playing too.

Basketball and baseball are the same shape but the basketball is bigger than the baseball. A basketball has these little beans as grips on the ball. The baseball has no grip just the seams on it. Both sports are very physical and have alot contact and running. you have to have mental toughness to play any sport period.

Basketball has an emotionally touching feeling on the player