Curate Collections: Unit Two, (Inter) National Sports and Identity

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?

Rubric

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

“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