I hope you had a wonderful and productive summer as much as I did. This summer I read The Boy in the Boat and I enjoyed Daniel James Brown’s details about every race the Washington crew had to do. Describing even the smallest features and creating suspense on what was going to happen. While I was reading, I thought of our physical education class and how the author’s description of perseverance and teamwork related to our discussions about sports. One lesson Brown describes is perseverance. Perseverance is the ability to do something and complete it even if it is difficult. In physical education there are times where the students have to complete certain activities like workouts in order to get a grade and sometimes they have to push thought