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The document explores the life and legacy of baseball legend Babe Ruth, detailing his rise to fame, record-setting moments, and interactions with fans. It discusses his contributions off the field, highlighting his charitable efforts and lasting impact on children’s lives. Additionally, the document provides a checklist for revising writing, using examples from a personal narrative to guide students through the revision process. It encourages self-reflection and offers strategies for enhancing reading comprehension and writing skills, making connections between Ruth’s heroism, generosity, and the characteristics of a well-crafted narrative.

Contents

• Pages 1—19: “Babe Ruth biography”
• Pages 20—41: Babe Ruth’s philanthropy.
• Pages 42—66: Writing revision checklist

This section of the document discusses the life of Babe Ruth, a baseball legend. It introduces his background, rise to fame, and characteristics that made him a hero. The document includes details about Ruth’s childhood, his time playing with the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox, and his trade to the New York Yankees. It also touches upon his record-setting moments and interactions with fans. The theme of heroism and the traits associated with heroes are explored within the context of Babe Ruth’s life. The document provides guided questioning, visualizing exercises, and strategies for understanding literal and nonliteral meanings in the text.

This section of the document discusses Babe Ruth’s contributions off the baseball field. It mentions how he visited children’s hospitals to lift spirits and helped raise money for St. Mary’s school, inspiring many children. It highlights that Babe Ruth’s childhood struggles motivated him to help children in need. Despite his fame and success in baseball, Babe Ruth never forgot his roots. Additionally, it shares that Babe Ruth established the Babe Ruth Foundation, a charity dedicated to helping American children. Babe Ruth’s impact on baseball and his charitable efforts have left a lasting legacy, as baseball fans worldwide still remember him.

The section of the document provides a checklist for revising writing, focusing on elements like strong beginnings and endings, the use of time clues, sentence variety, and more. It also includes examples from a personal narrative by Kelly Belson related to swimming experiences. Students are guided on how to revise and proofread their drafts using the checklist. Additionally, there are questions posed to students about the narrative to enhance their understanding of revising techniques. The document ends by encouraging self-reflection and offers suggestions for choosing readers for further reading practice.