The Sports Nationalism Challenge!
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International Sports Television Magazine
Students will create a half-hour television news magazine show on the topic of nationalism. The show can take any format and any tone (hard news, tabloid, satirical) that students choose, and the personnel assignment will reflect authentic news magazine show production.
The show should address the following themes:
- What is nationalism?
- How does nationalism affect a person’s identity?
- What does nationalism mean in a country where, for the most part, we are all immigrants?
- What does nationalism represent today?
- What did nationalism mean to the supporters of 2014 Sochi Olympics?
- What past events in Olympic history have been important to national identity?
- What international sports reflect the national identity of their country’s fans, and why?
Challenge 1: The Sports News Magazine Teams
The class will be divided into two groups, equal by honors/ college preparatory track, to produce their international sports news magazine show. Each group will need writers, a director, technology designers, hosts, and guests. All students will be involved in research. Each student must be assigned a specific and detailed role on your team.
Each student will be graded individually, so each student should identify exactly what contributions (s)he made to their final group presentation.
Students who have elected the Honors track will be expected to serve as team leaders; their participation will be assessed at a full grade higher expectation than students who have elected the college preparatory track.
Challenge 2: What elements should we consider as we plan for our International Sports News Magazine? Each team must….. · Produce a half-hour international sports news magazine show; Click here for a sample international sports new magazine show from Israel
· Create a news magazine show that draws on appropriate conventions of the genre (in other words, it must look like a news magazine show on television
· Break up the half hour into a series of segments that provide content; the content answers as many of the essential questions as possible
· Teach your audience: Don’t tell them a series of facts! Remember what Mark Twain said: “Don’t tell them, ‘The lady danced.’ Bring her on, and let her dance!”
· Take on particular points of view, using “theory” and “critical discourse” analysis as interpretation
· Introduce the program with the themes of “nationalism” and “identity” by defining each visually and verbally
Challenge 3: The Production Elements of the International Sports News Magazine
Each team must incorporate many, many examples of multimodal texts and technology
· digital
· audio
· video
· visual
Each student should post his/ her segment on his/ her personal Google website and identify exactly which contributions she/ he made to the overall production effort.
Nationalism Challenge Checklist
- Did you adequately complete Challenge 1: Specific and Detailed Roles for each group member--- Honors students as team leaders with responsibility for deeper analysis?
- Did you fully complete Challenge 2: Fulfilling each Element? Did you check off each item --- just to be sure?
- Did you complete each step of Challenge 3:The Production Elements of the International Sports News Magazine
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