Introduction-Dear+Reader

Dear Reader,
===For my project I researched hockey, and The Boston Bruins. I had chosen this as my research topic for my project because hockey is one of my favorite sports. I have never played hockey and have never been a very good skater, but I love to watch it. I was always somewhat into hockey when I was younger, but I had became obsessed with hockey and the Bruins once they had gotten into the finals, and had won the Stanley Cup. === ===I had gone into the project thinking that I would just be reading facts and information that I already knew, because I thought I had known a lot about the Boston Bruins. Once I begun my research I instantly began finding new information and learning new facts that Bruins I had not known about. I was pleasantly surprised with this project, I enjoyed being able to learn new things about hockey and the Bruins. Before this project, I had thought Tyler Seguin, at age 18 going into the Bruins, was the youngest player who had played for The Boston Bruins. After some research I had found out that 1942 the Bruins sign 16 year old Bep Guidolin. Not only was he the youngest player to play for the Boston Bruins  //ever//  , but he is also the youngest player in NHL history. === === When we were given this assignment, it did not take long for me to choose my topic of interest. When I had found out it was a research project, I was very excited because hockey is just so interesting to me and I love reading the news papers or looking up online whats new in the NHL, I like being updated and know whats going on. This project was very enjoyable because I was assigned to learn about and research something I love! How cool is that! It was really cool being able to write a narrative from the point of view of a young teenage boy who plays hockey, and hopes to one day became apart of the NHL and maybe even play for the Boston Bruins. === === I was never really a good skater and never played hockey, looking back I really wish I had played. It was fun to write the narrative because I wrote it, how I would imagine myself if I had ever played hockey, and what my hopes and dreams would be. I portrayed myself as a 14 year old boy named Jimmy, and just wrote what I have always thought it would be like for me if I had ever played. Also for one of my genres, I had chosen to do A personal letter. My character Jimmy was away at a summer league hockey camp in Maine, and was writing his Mom a letter to let her know how things were going. When I was younger I went to a sleep away camp over the summer and I knew how much my Mom loved getting letters from me to hear how I was doing. For the personal letter Jimmy is writing to his Mom, and I was basing that off of how my childhood was. === === Finally, I chose writing a poem as one of the genres. It was about Jimmies hopes of one day becoming a professional skater in the NHL, and I had used my own hopes and thoughts to create the poem. I know I would never play in the NHL but I imagined what it would be like to be a 14 year old boy, who was extremely talented at hockey, and that hockey was is whole life and that there was a possibility he could one day be apart of the NHL. I very much enjoyed this project because I could express my thoughts and dreams threw my character, a 14 year old boy named Jimmy. ===