AP Unit 6 - Sports and Play

How do the values of sports affect the way we see ourselves?

• From The Art of Styling Sentences: Ch. 5 – The Twenty Patterns – In Print; Appendix
• LC - Talese – “The Silent Season of a Hero” (1966 example, narration)
• LC - Roosevelt – “The Proper Place for Sports” (1903 )
• LC - McMurtry – “Kill ‘Em, Crush ‘Em, Eat ‘Em Raw!” (1971 example, compare/contrast)
• CA - Koppett – From Sports Illusion, Sports Reality (1994 analysis)
• LC - Vervaecke – “A Spectator’s Notebook” (1998 example)
• CA - Nevius – “The Cost of High Stakes on Little League Games” (2000 cause-effect)
• CA - Rowe, Rowe, and Streeter – “The High School Basketball Coach” (2000 narrative/memoir)
• CA - Gable – “What to Do with Title IX” (2002 argument)
• CA - Hogshead-Makar – “The Ongoing Battle over Title IX” (2002 argument)
• LC - American College of Sports Medicine – “Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes” (description)
• LC - National Eating Disorders Association – “Enhancing Male Body Image”

• Film – “Hoop Dreams” (1994)
• Short-Form Formal Essay – Argument/Research: Select a text from the unit and defend, challenge, or qualify the author’s assertion. (Research may be required for you to produce a “full” response to the prompt.)
• Short-Form Formal Essay peer response, editing activities, focused revision, polished final draft, reflection
• Timed Formal Response – Timed write; annotation/dissection of an AP prompt; analysis of AP essay scoring guidelines; investigation of anchor student essays; instructor keyword: boxing (sans)
• Graded Socratic Seminar – Timed Formal Response Prompt
• Revision of and reflection on Timed Formal Response – for grade submission
• Multiple Choice Mock Exam – Individual and group work with rhetorical devices and author’s purpose