PART I

Learning about Title IX Legislation

You Have the Right To Play video

Watch this video. Pull out what are the most important words about the Title IX legislation to you. Write them down in quotation marks. Then describe in 2-3 sentences why they’re significant.

Billy Jean King's Message

What three foundations did she found? Why did she found these three organizations?

Title IX information from the National Women's Law Center

Choose one article within the Title IX Information available from the Women’s Law Center. Summarize its argument and two supporting points. From what you learned in this article, how has Title IX made an impact on people in the U.S.?

Check It Out: Is the Playing Field Level for Women and Girls at Your School?

Read the article and the accompanying survey questions. Afterward, write 2-3 sentences that comment on the degree to which you think that your town and school offer a “level” playing field.

Girls' Bill of Rights Fact Sheet

Read the “Girls' Bill of Rights Fact Sheet.” Which of the survey results surprise you the most? Comment on those in 3-4 sentences.

Sports Illustrated: Title IX --- 40 Years of Change

Click through to the subpage with the various articles from “Sports Illustrated: 40 Years of Change.” Choose three articles. Respond to each of them by summarizing its argument and two supporting points. From what you learned in the article, how has Title IX made an impact on people in the U.S.?

PART II

Write an Original Short Story from a Female's POV

Your assignment:

Write a 150-250 word short story from the point of view of a young female who wants to participate in some kind of athletics that is denied to her. Use first person narration (i.e. “I,” “we,” “our”) only.

Begin by characterizing your protagonist: describe her physical appearance, behavior, the sound of her language, how others behave around her, how others talk about her. Write with feeling and voice. Allow your reader to journey along with you through the immediacy you create and the imagery you offer.

Then infuse a significant conflict, one that will require you to become involved as if you were she with her experiences. Don’t just cooperate with her but coexist with her. Share the objects, ideas, and actions of her life itself. Try to see and feel how your very being is wrapped with hers and in larger worlds than you are accustomed to think.

Conclude the short story with a resolution that answers our essential question, “How can sports be a mechanism to improve society?”