The American Academy

Join the new genre of athletic spectators - readers!Sports Literature focuses on various genres of challenging work about sports by a wide variety of great writers, from Wordsworth to Updike and many, many more. Readings and activities will include essays, journalism, poetry, movies, short stories, and books of non-fiction. Students will write analytical essays, personal essays, journalistic pieces, short stories, and poetry. Students will learn to value, appreciate, and demonstrate literacy through expressive and receptive language skills, and to understand and investigate the self, others, the culture, and the environment. Reading continues to be taught, emphasizing literary analysis/criticism, historical commentary, political statements, and culturally and historically significant literary works with the intent of preparing students to enter the world of work or higher education. Writing to learn emphasizes cause and effect, analysis and refutation of opposing opinions, and important text connections as well as investigate the self, others, the culture, and the environment.