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