- Assignment & Essay Formatting
- Course Grade Sheet: Spring 2026 (Sections 9 & 10): Track your grade this semester
- Course Grade Sheet (Section): Track your grade this semester
SPORTS & SOCIETY
Sports as a Microcosm of Life Graphic
NBC Sunday Morning with Willie Geist: 9/11: Sports after the 9/11
Attack
ESSAYS & ASSIGNMENTS
Sports Poetry Analysis (Spring 26, Sections
9 & 10)
- PowerPoint Notes - Introduction for Writing a Game Story
- Audience Sheet
- Column Formatting for Game Story
- Description Exercise: Ovechkin video
- Notes for Covering/Watching a Sporting Event
- Interviews
- Organizing a Game Story
- Reading Questions for Sports in Literature Pieces (See syllabus)
- Sports Journalism Pieces by Justin Cisewski
Essay 1 - Evaluation Essay (Movie Review - The Grizzlies) Not for Spring 2026
- Taking Notes for a Movie Review
- PowerPt Slides - Introduction for Evaluation Essay
- Audience Sheet
- IMDb Site for The Grizzlies
- Native Americans Origins of Lacrosse
- Article on the Canadian residential schools
- Video news report on residential schools in the US
- 60 Minutes report on residential schools (Heads up--this piece can be emotional to watch)
- Column Formatting for Movie Review
- Birds of Prey Review (For educational/classroom use only)
Essay 1 - Personal Narrative Not for Spring 2026
- PowerPt Slides - Introduction for Narrative Essay
- Audience Sheet
- Seton Hall Covid Personal Narratives
Assign 2 - Formal Sentence Outline for a Literary Analysis (about Sports) Not for Spring 2026
- Power Point Notes
- Power Point Notes
- Audience Sheet
- Biographical Info - T. C. Boyle (For educational/classroom use only)
- Copy of "Doe Season"--PDF (Download this copy and then you should be able to rotate it. You can also print it.) (For educational/classroom use only)
- Copy of "56-0"--PDF (You can print this.)
- Notes on thesis statement, outline, and quotations
- Sample Outline ("The Thrill of the Grass" is in SL if you wish to look at/read the story)
- Notes on Reading and Writing about Fiction (TSGW, Ch 10)
- Page One
- Page Two
- Stories for 101-23
- "56-0"
- Class Notes 11/24
- Slinkers
- Class Notes (11/17)
- Brokeback Mountain
- Class Notes (12/3)
- Babylon Revisited
- Class Notes (11/17) Also see Brokeback Mtn notes
- "56-0"
PowerPt Slides - Introduction
Essay 2 - Personal Sports Narratives (Spring 26, Sections 9 & 10)
- PowerPt Slides - Introduction for Personal Sports Narrative Essay
- Reading Questions from Sports in Literature
- Bannister: "The Four-Minute Mile"
- Audience Sheet
- Notes on thesis statement, outline, and quotations
- Sample Formal Sentence
Outline Based on "In the Swim": Note: This outline is an
incomplete draft
Assign 1 - Group Project: Comics & Culture, Comic Strip Analysis Not for Spring 2026- Power Point Notes
- Collaboration: Theory and Practice
- Example of text using headings, single spaced, justified left
- Example of text using headings, single spaced, centered
- Sample Comic Strip for
Class Analysis
- Power Point Notes
- Example of text using headings, single spaced, justified left
- Example of text using headings, single spaced, centered
- Sample comic strip (You cannot write your essay using this strip)
Essays/Assignments Comparison Chart
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Not for Spring 2026 SemesterEssay 2 - Evaluation Essay
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Macbeth
Other Genres Evaluating a TV Series (FNL Pilot Episode) about Sports
Summary of play--Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Summary of play + additional resources--Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare online: See menu top left for plays--oodles of info on Macbeth
Audience Sheet- Audience Sheet
- Friday Night Lights TV Series Cast
- Friday Night Lights Movie (2004)
- Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream, H. G. Bissinger