SEVENTH GRADE RESOURCES

7th graders- here are the articles and news clips that you will want to access in order to complete your essay:

 

Focus Two Resources:  From http://www.engageny.org/resource/grades-7-ela-building-evidence-based-arguments-unit

 

Text Set 1 Background Informational Texts

1. What is a Performance-Enhancing Drug? http://odelleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/What-is-a-PED.pdf
2. Historical Timeline: History of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000017
3. Steroids http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/fit/steroids.html

Text Set 2 Additional Background Informational Texts

4. How to get Doping Out of Sports http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/how-to-get-doping-out-of-sports.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
5. Performance Enhancing Drugs Outside of Pro Sports http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/05/performance-enhancing-drugs-outside-of-pro-sports/
6. Performance Enhancing Drugs: A Cheat Sheet http://abcnews.go.com/Health/performance-enhancing-drugs-cheat-sheet/story?id=19871506
7. The Future of Cheating in Sports http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-future-of-cheating-in-sports-138914769/
8. Athlete Guide to the 2013 Prohibited List http://www.usada.org/prohibited-list/athlete-guide/ (This link is the 2014 list)
9. The Beam in Your Eye http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2005/04/the_beam_in_your_eye.html

Text Set 3 Political Cartoons

10. Why the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs by Great Athletes Still Bothers Us http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2011/12/13/why-the-use-of-performance-enhancing-drugs-by-great-athletes-still-bothers-us/

Cartoonists on Baseball and Steriods http://www.newsday.com/opinion/cartoonists-on-baseball-and-steroids-1.4437630#1

Text Set 4 Seminal Arguments

1. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings Urges the National Basketball Association to adopt a Zero-Tolerance Drug Policy http://cummings.house.gov/sites/cummings.house.gov/files/documents/press/05may19a.htm
2. Speech by Dr. Jacques Rogge President, International Olympic Committee to World Confernence on Doping in Sport http://www.olympic.org/Documents/Reports/EN/en_report_1253.pdf
3. Why It’s Time to Legalize Steroids In Professional Sports http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2012/08/24/why-its-time-to-legalize-steroids-in-professional-sports/
4. Confessions of a doper: Lance Armstrong’s former teammate Jonathan Vaughters talks about why some athletes use steroids http://quizlet.com/23110934/athletes-and-steroids-flash-cards/

Text Set 5 Additional Arguments

5. No Place in High School Sports for Performance-Enhancing Drugs http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/21/3577329/no-place-for-performance-enhancing.html
6. Did Lance Armstrong Cheat? I Don’t Care http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?id=6135037
7. Lance Armstrong Had Little Choice But to Dope http://ideas.time.com/2012/10/12/lance-armstrong-had-little-choice-but-to-dope/
8. *There Are No Sound Moral Arguments Against Performance-Enhancing Drugs http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/magazine/there-are-no-sound-moral-arguments-against-performance-enhancing-drugs.html?_r=0
9. Legalize PEDs and We’ll Prosper, Says Ethicist http://www.smh.com.au/sport/legalise-peds-and-well-prosper-says-ethicist-20130216-2ejvc.html

April 28th to May 2nd

 

May 14-18 2014: Once again, a sideways schedule!

6th grade parents: Today your student will bring home an essay that we've been working on for quite some time. The 6th graders have had this essay edited by me, an 8th grade expert, and they made several changes themselves: Now it's YOUR turn! So often you see the final product marked up by me, without having seen the full work in progress. Over the break please make YOUR edits to your student's paper. Do not re-type it for them, but mark up the copy your student has brought home to you. They will then produce the final copy to be graded.

Have an amazing BREAK!