Hoops is a great young adult novel for exploring the themes of friendship, trust, and resisting temptation with your students. Seventeen—year—old Lonnie is a prodigiously talented basketball player who dreams of NBA stardom, but can he avoid the myriad temptations and dangers of life in Harlem? Can his coach, Cal, overcome his addictions to gambling and alcohol and become the mentor Lonnie needs? Basketball fans will love this gripping, suspenseful novel.
With this Hoops Response Journal, you’ll have an amazing selection of writing prompts for every chapter in the book right at your fingertips.
Help your students form and express their own opinions with these personal writing prompts and essay topics.
This Response Journal will help you:
- prepare dozens of fun, ready-made journal topics that students will love;
- start every day with a quick reading response activity;
- give your students the perfect opportunity to develop good grammar habits.
Great teachers help their students focus on writing. With Prestwick House’s Response Journals, your students will:
- Learn to develop their own unique writing voice;
- Become confident in voicing their opinions;
- Build a personal connection to literature.
This is the pdf downloadable version of this Response Journal.
For the print booklet version, click here.