(Inter) National Sports and Identity
How is sport a reflection of society?
How can sport be a mechanism to improve society?
"In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more than that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?"
- Jesse Owens
Need a good resource for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics?
Mentor Texts: Non-Fiction Journalism
Go to NBC Olympics, which has the U.S. broadcasting rights..
Question One: What is a Point of View? How can understanding "Theory"help us to understand the intersection of international sports and worldviews?
Mentor Text: Visual Images
Question Two: What is the language of international sports in popular culture? Onomatopoeia and Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis TheorySamples of Onomatopoeia
Sage Kotsenburg's Gold Medal Slopeside Run
Meryl Davis, Charlie White Flawless
Rubric for Sports Onomatopoeia Poems
Group 1: PowerPoint abo
ut Theory and "Frames" close reading (see attachments)Group 2: Discourse Analysis-- Template (see attachments) and
Fill-in-the-Blank Template for Synthesis, Discourse Analysis (see attachments)
Quizlet for Discourse Devices Define "discourse."
Discourse includes all ways in which we as humans communicate with each other. When we engage in discourse analysis, we study the way versions of the world, society, events, and identities are produced in the use of language and discourse. Discourse analysis helps us to become critically literate when we step back from topics and attempt to determine their social construction within various forms of knowledge/power. Semiotics, deconstruction, and narrative analysis are forms of discourse analysis.
Mentor Texts: Non-Fiction/ Journalism
U.S. Gold Medalist's 'stoked,' 'sick,' technical lingo lost in translation?Teen Skater has Look of Olympic Champion"Opening Ceremony Brings Out Good Side of Nationalism""Sochi Games Held Up as a Symbol of Olympic Waste and Extravagance," from The Guardian newspaper
Question Three: What is "identity?" What is "nationalism?"
How are sports, identity, and nationalism intertwined?
C Period URL's
Bringing the Iditarod to our Classroom
Question Four: "How do sports transmit values about culture?"
Homework for All Students
View this PowerPoint and write 2-3 sentences that answer the driving question.
Homework for Honors Students
Identify the Values: Preparation for the Unit Two Curated Collection of Texts
"Red Sox Have No Problems at All," by Dan Shaughnessy--- Read it
Discourse Analysis Template and Quizlet--- Complete the template
A Curated Collection of Sports Texts: (Inter) National Sports and Identity
What patterns of identity do we see across national and international sports?
What values emerge as connecting ideas among national and international sport and identity?
What is the impact when nationalism is challenged or shaken, such as in the case of sports loss?
One non-fiction print text to read
One set of visual images to view
One composition to listen to
One literature print text to read
"Mapping the 2014 Torch Relay" from the American Society for Innovation Design in Education
"Trying to Explain Easter to Hideki Okajima"
Top Ten Reasons Why Americans Should Watch Formula One Racing
12H: Sporting Life: Its Political, Social, and Educational Aspects (read one section of your choice)
"Hilary Knight on U.S.-Canadian Rivalry: 'Hatred's Pretty Good'"
"NBC's Meredith Viera to Become First Woman to Host Primetime Olympics Solo"
"New Jersey Teachers Take Opportunity to Build Lessons around the Olympics"
12CP: Weak Results for Romania at Winter Olympics
12CP: The Indian Road in the 2014 Sochi Olympics
"Meet the US Women's Bobsled Team"
"Twenty-Four Sixty at International Sports Meeting 2013"
"International Sports Karate Association"
"U.S. Snowboarder Arielle Gold Shares Gnarly Crash that Kept Her Out of the Olympics"
"Breuhl Rooster Interrupts Israeli Soccer Game, Outwits Security"
Countries Participating in the 2014 Winter Olympics
"Does the Country Hosting the Olympics Always Win More Medals?"
"A Muggle's Dream: Quidditch as a NCAA Sport," from NPR
"International Sports Festival"
"Jamaican Bobsled Team has Catchy Reggae Theme Song"
"Sports Minute: Jaegar and Tanaka Debut," by Boomer Esiason
"Sports Minute: Doug Gottlieb Talking about Richie Incognito and NFL Mental Health Needs"
"Sports Minute: Tanking in the NBA," by Boomer Esiason
12H: "Nationalism, Internationalism, and Global Sport" (pick a 10 minute segment)
"Johnny Gomes Talks about Retiring the Beard"
"BBC--- Cultural Calendar: Futbol"
"A History of Baseball in Taiwan with Author Andrew Morris"
“Two Left Feet, Two Left Hands, and Too Left on the Bench”
“First Position”
“Finishing Blocks and Deadly Hook Shots”
“Finding High-Jump Fame: As Shorts Story”
“Line Drive”
“Riding the Century”
“On Being Written In”
12H: "My Old Man," by Ernest Hemingway (attachment at bottom of page)
12H: "Baseball," by Paul Morgan
“Bombardment,” by Joseph Bruchac
12H: "At the Tug of War," by Henry Lawson