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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?
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
"Mapping the 2014 Torch Relay" from the American Society for Innovation Design in Education
"Trying to Explain Easter to Hideki Okajima"
Top Ten Reasons Why Americans Should Watch Formula One Racing
12H: Sporting Life: Its Political, Social, and Educational Aspects (read one section of your choice)
"Hilary Knight on U.S.-Canadian Rivalry: 'Hatred's Pretty Good'"
"NBC's Meredith Viera to Become First Woman to Host Primetime Olympics Solo"
"New Jersey Teachers Take Opportunity to Build Lessons around the Olympics"
12CP: Weak Results for Romania at Winter Olympics
12CP: The Indian Road in the 2014 Sochi Olympics
"Meet the US Women's Bobsled Team"
"Twenty-Four Sixty at International Sports Meeting 2013"
"International Sports Karate Association"
"U.S. Snowboarder Arielle Gold Shares Gnarly Crash that Kept Her Out of the Olympics"
"Breuhl Rooster Interrupts Israeli Soccer Game, Outwits Security"
Countries Participating in the 2014 Winter Olympics
"Does the Country Hosting the Olympics Always Win More Medals?"
"A Muggle's Dream: Quidditch as a NCAA Sport," from NPR
"International Sports Festival"
"Jamaican Bobsled Team has Catchy Reggae Theme Song"
"Sports Minute: Jaegar and Tanaka Debut," by Boomer Esiason
"Sports Minute: Doug Gottlieb Talking about Richie Incognito and NFL Mental Health Needs"
"Sports Minute: Tanking in the NBA," by Boomer Esiason
12H: "Nationalism, Internationalism, and Global Sport" (pick a 10 minute segment)
"Johnny Gomes Talks about Retiring the Beard"
"BBC--- Cultural Calendar: Futbol"
"A History of Baseball in Taiwan with Author Andrew Morris"
“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
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