Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Blog:8 GYM CANDY

November 24,2010

what is the effect on the audience of your IRB?


 The main effect that GYM CANDY has on the audience is a feeling of sportsmanship. For explain in the story Mick works hard at achieveing his goals in being a better football player. The story motivates you in never giving up. Even if you feel like all the hard work your doing isnt good enough in the end it will all pay off for the better. In the story Mick feels like he isnt the toughest player on his team so he starts taking steroids. You shouldnt take the short cut in becomming better at something because in the end all the work you have done will pay off.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Blog:7 GYM CANDY by Carl Deuker

Wednesday Novemeber 3,2010

Identify a theme in your IRB.  Describe events in your book that support this theme.

The book GYM CANDY has a theme. The theme in GYM CANDY is sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is shown in many ways. Mick Johnson worked hard at becomming a football player. He gave football is all and never let anyome bring him down.Mick shows sportsmanship when he compliments other teamates after a game. He also shows good sportsmanship when he does whatever it takes to become a better football player. He gives the game all his effort and fixes his mistakes. He shows great sportsmanship toward being a good football player by practiceing with is father Mike and going to the gym and working out with a personal trainer named PeterAt the end of the book being a good sportsmanship goes all down the drain.