Mrs. Porter’s Class Plays Mayan Basketball

Springville Junior High eighth graders learned how to play basketball a different way in Mrs. Porter’s US history class. In Mayan basketball you can not use your hands or feet, but you can use your body to play,and it was intense. If you lost they would kill you as a human sacrifice; it  was huge in that time. You also had to get the ball in rings, and the ball had to weigh nine pounds. Mrs. Porter, a US and Utah history teacher who has been at the school for two years, taught her students to play.         

Mrs. Porter likes history because when she was in high school she had an awesome  history teacher, and it made her think “I wanna be a history teacher!” History is her favorite subject.  Mrs. Porter said she likes the Mayan basketball because it gets students to do something, and not just stay in their desks, and it would makes them remember how to play and enjoy a day outside. She also enjoyed watching her students play.

Jake Konse, a student in Mrs. Porter’s class, said, “I love playing!  It was different and fun to play. I think Mrs. Porter is funny and cool, and I would it again. It was fun.” Justice Farr, another of Mrs. Porter’s students, said she liked it, but not as much as she liked watching other people play. “I like Mrs. Porter. I like how she can joke around and still teach us.”