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Summer Reading Training Materials (Staff): Foul Trouble

Foul Trouble

Title & Author

Foul Trouble by John Feinstein

Themes

  • Payment of student athletes

  • College

  • Trust and manipulation

Essential Questions

Examples:

  • Text to text

  • Text to self

  • Text to world

  • Excerpts

  • Discussion questions

  • Page numbers

  • Etc...

  • The NCAA has a very strict set of rules when it comes to college athletes and recruiting. Do you agree with these rules? Why/why not?

  • Compare and contrast the two main characters.

  • What does Terrell learn from his dealings with Eddie J?

  • What does Terrell learn about his “friends” as the novel progresses?

  • How do you feel about the college choices that Danny and Terrell make at the end of the novel?

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