1) Unit One: How Is Sport a Reflection of Society and a Mechanism to Improve Society?

How is sport a reflection of society?

How can sport be a mechanism to improve society?

Homework: College Prep: Syllabus Sign-Off (with all three signatures) Honors/ Extra Credit CP: Syllabus Sign-Off plus complete template from today's class for this YouTube...

LESSON TWO: VIDEO TEXTS, SPORTS, AND POPULAR CULTURE

By the end of class, you will be able to... analyze how extreme sports represent new cultural shifts and audience demands.

Let's Get Started! Please take out your printed syllabus sign-off. Please take out your Name Card and display it prominently. Honors: Discuss the significance the the You Tube you watched last night for homework.

Getting to Know You:

Demographic Survey with Survey Monkey

Sports Media Survey with Survey Monkey

A Google Drawing about your Sports Identity

Create a Google Drawing that shows, in images and captions, your sports, play, and fan affiliations. Make sure you have many captions that describe your pictures in connection with your sports, play, and fan identity. Here's Dr. Carolyn's Sample Sports Drawing:

Homework: Finish your Google Drawing, if you did not do so today in class.

LESSON FOUR: PERSONAL GOOGLE WEBSITES AS ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS

By the end of class, you will be able to... design a website and load an image about your sports and play identity as your Home Page symbol.

Let's Get Started!

Dr. Carolyn will lead you, step by step, through a process in which you create your own personal Google website. Students who already have a personal Google website will help you to be successful. (Note: Students who already have a personal Google website for English class must move all their pages so that they fall under one of two headings: English 12CP/H and Sports and Popular Culture). If you need extra help, go to How to Construct a Google Website instructions.

Download your Google Drawing of your Sports and Leisure Identity onto your Home Page of your new personal Google website. Afterward, write 2 sentences above it that invite your viewer to look at the various pages of your website.

Complete the Google Form for registering your Google website with Dr. Carolyn for future grading purposes.

Create pages for each of our units:

• Sports as a Reflection of and Mechanism to Improve Society
• Sports Scandals
• Consumer Culture and Sports
• The Role of Race in Sports
• Sex, Gender, and Identity in Sports

Homework: Finish any parts of your website design that you did not complete today.

LESSON FIVE: SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHY

By the end of class, you will write a personal sports narrative that connects your identity to physical exertion, play, and competition.

Please click through to the Sports Autobiography page for today's assignment. Please look for the Rubric on this document.

Here is Dr. Carolyn's Sports Biography as a model.

Be ready to share your Sports Autobiography in small groups and on your personal Google website at the beginning of our next class.

Homework: Finish your Sports Autobiography.

LESSON SIX: RESPONDING TO SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

By the end of class, you will be able to apply a procedure for textual analysis in a way that highlights how sports intersects with the larger society in which we live.

Let's Get Started! Please pull up your Sports Autobiography on your Google Docs.

Put your Sports Autobiography on your personal Google Website: Copy and paste it on your personal Google website by highlighting and copying your entire text (no real names, please). Go to your Google apps and open Sites. Click through to your personal Google website. Create a new page titled "Sports Autobiography" under Unit One.

(optional) Revise your Sports Autobiography.

LESSON SEVEN: NOT JUST A GAME...

Now, let's view and respond to various segments of this documentary film. We'll stop after each section and discuss its major points.

• In the Arena... we'll begin with the Pat Tillman story, which we didn't see in the homework viewing.
• Like a Girl
• Breaking the Color Barrier
• The Courage of Athletes

Here is the transcript from the film.

Day 1 Homework: CP: None. Honors/ Extra Credit CP: Here is a study guide for the film from the Media Education Foundation. Choose one of the Assignments. Complete it, and be ready to share it tomorrow at the beginning of class.

Honors/ Extra Credit Students share their Homework assignments.

Homework over February vacation: None. Relax and rejuvenate. But, you can do the extra credit below, titled LESSON EIGHT.

If you were absent for the film, please log into You Tube and watch as many segments as you can.... You'll need it for our post-vacation activities.

LESSON EIGHT: A CURATED COLLECTION OF TEXTS

By the end of class, you will be able to define multimodal texts and apply value labels to a collection of texts.

Click below to access the instructions for....

The Process and Ideas for Composing

Here is the Template to complete for the Curated Collection of Sports and Popular Culture Texts.

Identify some ways that professional sports are a mirror of society. What messages about society do sports texts tell us? What ideas are contained within each of the texts that you have chosen? Why?

Exemplary student compositions for Unit One

Rubric

As a reminder, our course has two essential questions:

How is sport a mirror of society?

How can sport be a mechanism to improve society?

Summary of Unit One:

We are interested in looking at the way that social practices and cultural meanings are produced and circulated through the processes and practices of the world of sports and the texts that represent them.

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