Warm-Up: Kids Soccer Coach

Hey Coach---Yep, that's YOU!

You are all grown up now, played soccer your whole life and you really love the game. You were totally excited when you were asked if you would coach the 7 and 8 year old soccer team. And, what a great bunch of kids you have on the team--truth is they are AWESOME!

Just watch them in action:

Having played the game for almost your whole life, you know exactly what you want to do. You have had GOOD coaches that you liked; GOOD coaches that you didn't like---and BAD coaches that you never liked.

In your program you are going to take the best of each of these GOOD coaches and apply them to your new team. You expected your team to be great, the parents expected your team to be great--last year the same kids never lost a single game--just wait until the first game, your going to be great!

PROBLEM: Things did not go as planned...your team, your kids lost the very first game. In fact, your team failed to score a single goal. In order to be encouraging you have decided to send each player an email, and one player a personal email. This one little guy had a chance, he was lined up and the goalie was out of position, but his kick went wide. Kayden, felt as if he had let down the whole team---that's a lot of weight for a 7 year old. So, you want to give him some personal encouragement.

Write the text of two emails. Write a generic email to the team, that is encouraging and designed to lift their spirits and realize that success is still ahead.

TO: Team
From: Coach
Content:

Write the second specific email to that one player that was really feeling responsible for the loss. Encourage him, and help him to learn that a game is a game and losses happen. He will still be successful.

TO: Kayden
From: Coach
Content:

Write each directly into your BLOG, no need to embed.


Language Objective: Student will identify the difference between generic and specific through examples and by definition