L&G Articles listing

Below you will find a copy of the Non-Fiction text organizer, as well as the list of articles and podcasts you may choose from for your Summer Assignment.

NOTE #1: You do not need to print anything for this summer assignment - everything will be turned in on a special Google Classroom.

NOTE #2: Your due date for the Summer Assignment will be the second day of school. This is Friday, August 27.

Resources:

Non-fiction text organizer handout

Articles:

Notes: You may well find some of the topics or language used in the articles objectionable. There are many listed here so that you can choose another

Note: I have updated this list as of 7/28. If you found an article that has since been removed or changed, you may still use it!

• Say More Than Gay (about Florida's 'don't say gay' bill and LGBT-inclusive education)

• Inside the Culture of Sexism at Riot Games

• The Supreme Court Overturned Roe v Wade. What's Next?

• The Masculine Ideal is Killing American Men

• More Teens are Rejecting Gender Norms

• Black and White Women Far from Equal under Title IX

• Kids believe in gender stereotypes by age 10, global study finds

• The Persistence of Gender Stereotypes (article about student leadership at schools)

• Gender Stereotypes and Self-Confidence (from Harvard Business School)

• Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber (fascinating but very long article, about facing a culture of sexism in the tech industry)

• K-Pop Stars and Masculinity

• Cyntoia Brown Released After 15 Years in Prison for Murder (She was a victim of sex trafficking and shot a man when she was 16)

• Overcoming "Imposter Syndrome" (new!)

• Why Straight Women are Marrying Each Other

• Prosecuted For Standing Her Ground

• Toxic Masculinity and Wearing Masks in a Pandemic (from the Scientific American)

• Teen Girls and the Persistence of Gender Stereotypes

• The Makeup Tax

• How Can I Stop Freezing Up in Arguments?

• Pregnancy-Related Deaths Doubled in Texas After Abortion Clinics Closed

• How Doctors Take Women's Pain Less Seriously

• Toxic Masculinity is Killing Men

• Recovery from COVID-19 Must Address Gender Inequality in the Workplace (new!)

• Trapped in Tollbooths, and Targets of Harassment

• Most Medical Research is Done on Men. That's a Deadly Problem.

Podcasts

(note: listen to the podcast, do NOT just read the summary. Then, complete the organizer just as you did with the 3 articles.)

You're Wrong About

• Alpha Males - The whole concept of 'alpha males' comes from a weird and bad study that doesn't relate to either wolf or human behavior!!

• The Chicks vs. The Iraq War (The Chicks are a country band that were essentially "canceled" after speaking out against the Iraq War)

• The Dark Knight (discussion of toxic masculinity and problematic superheroes)

• Princess Diana (deep biography dive, this episode is 1 of 5)

• Marie Antoinette (the real story behind "let them eat cake")

Fresh Air (on NPR)

• How the Pandemic Revels Gender Inequality in the Household

• Girls and Sex

• The Supreme Court Ruling That Led to 70,000 Forced Sterilizations

• Single By Choice: Why Fewer American Women Are Married Than Ever Before

• Teen Girls and Social Media

Maintenance Phase

• The Twinkie Defense (an actually wild story of San Francisco's murder of Harvey Milk and corrupt cops)

• Diet Book Deep Dive "How To Take 20 Pounds Off Your Man"

• Anti-Fat Bias

Radiolab (link to site)

• Reasonable Doubt (rape case) - and the update

• The Girl Who Doesn't Exist

Reveal (link to site)

• Men in Women's Sports and Title IX

• Sexual Assault on the Night Shift

This American Life (link to site)

• Anatomy of Doubt (about rape and false reporting)

• Women and Internet Trolling and Media

• Once More, With Feeling (story about confronting men who catcall)

• Valentine's Day (stories about people going to extremes for love)

• Romancing the Phone

• If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS (about internet harassment)

Other This American Life Episodes (not for the assignment, but interesting)

• Harper High School, parts one and two (extended reporting from Harper High School in Chicago, where 29 current and recent students were shot in a year)

• How I Got Into College

• Is This Working? (episode about how teachers deal with discipline)