b) Sports, Consumerism, and Gender Identity

Carousel Sharing"Cheerleading and the Gendered Politics of Sport," by Grindell and West(see attachments section at bottom)"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" Game (see attachments section at bottom)Deconstruction: Please write a paragraph in response to the following prompt:

“How might a single mom feel if her two + children asked to go to see a ballgame at Fenway Park?”

Discourse Analysis Modeling

"The Children's Shirt Place: Don't Worry if You're Not Good at Math --- There's Always Shopping," from consumerist.com

Discourse analysis texts found at espnW

Kaillie Humphries Again Finds New Life on Bobsled Track"

"Danica Patrick Files for Divorce"

"Shannon Miller Pregnant after Cancer"

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"Answering Harvard's question about my personal life, 52 years later," by Richman

Writer's Workshop:

Brainstorming/ Planning/ Organizing for the paper due next week: "My Sports Autobiography"