Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Origins of Basketball

HANDWRITE a KWO for this.

The Origins of Basketball

James Naismith invented basketball in 1891. Naismith was a physical education teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts. His school asked him to create a sport that students could play indoors during the winter. The first basketball game had peach baskets as the goals. That is why the sport was named basketball. The metal hoop was not invented until 1906.

Basketball quickly became popular throughout the United States. Both men and women started playing basketball at the college level in the early 1890s. The first professional basketball league in the United States was formed in 1898. The National Basketball Association (NBA) started in 1949. It is the main professional league in the United States today.


The Basic Rules for a KWO (Key Word Outline)

• Always read the entire source text first to understand the content as a whole.

• Write the complete title at the top of a separate piece of paper.  

• Work through the source text sentence by sentence.

• Decide which of the words make up the main idea of each sentence. 

• Next write down those key words for each sentence. Only three words per sentence are allowed, although abbreviations, numbers, and symbols are “free” (they don’t count as one of the three key words).  

• Be sure to number the sentences and skip a line between each. 

Label each paragraph (P1, P2, P3, etc.).

This is an example of the way you should set up your HANDWRITTEN KWO:

Complete Title @ Top

P1

1

2

3

4

5

6


P2

1

2

3

4

5


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