OBJECTIVE: Students apply their close reading skills to understand a societal issue as a context for various perspectives, positions, and arguments
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TEXT 1.1: “WHAT ARE PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS?”
Author: Luke Bauer; Source/Publisher: Odell Education; Date: December 5, 2013
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. How does the author describe performance-enhancing drugs?
2. What comparison is made between modern athletes and ancient Greek and Mayan athletes?
3. What “competitive environment” is being described that is responsible for increases in performance
enhancing drug usage among athletes?
TEXT 1.2: “HISTORICAL TIMELINE: HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS IN
SPORTS”
Author/Source/Publisher: ProCon.org; Date: Last Updated August 8, 2013
http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000017
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. In any year or era, what does the timeline’s text say happened regarding performance-enhancing drugs?
What might the impact of these events have been on people who lived during this time?
2. What evidence does this text provide that influences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
3. What is the earliest documented usage of performance-enhancing substances in athletics? Where did the
word “doping” come from?
4. In what sports have performance-enhancing drugs been used?
5. Which entries on the timeline indicate attempts to restrict the usage of performance enhancing drugs in
sports?
6. What evidence does this text provide that influences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
TEXT 1.3: “STEROIDS”
Author/Source/Publisher: Kids Health; Date: 2013
http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/sports/steroids.html
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. What are steroids?
2. In what forms can you put steroids into your body?
3. What reasons does the author provide for why “using steroids isn’t playing fair?”
4. What evidence does this text provide that influences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
TEXT 2.1: “HOW TO GET DOPING OUT OF SPORTS”
Author: Jonathan Vaughters; Source/Publisher: The New York Times; Date: August 11, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/how-to-get-doping-out-of-sports.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. What textual details support Vaughters claim that, “Achieving childhood dreams is a hard road.”?
2. What is the “2%” that Vaughters describes?
3. What does Vaughters mean by, “The answer is not to teach young athletes that giving up lifelong dreams
is better than giving in to cheating. The answer is to never give them the option.”?
4. What evidence does this text provide that influences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
TEXT 2.2: “PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS OUTSIDE OF PRO SPORTS”
Author: Kyung Lah; Source/Publisher: Anderson Cooper 360: CNN; Date: August 5, 2013
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/05/performance-enhancing-drugs-outside-of-pro-sports/
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. What evidence from the video helps explain Je"rey Life’s statement, “I’m not against aging. I’m against
getting old.”?
2. What are the long terms costs to using Human Growth Hormone described by Dr. Tom Perls from Boston
University?
TEXT 2.3: “PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS: A CHEAT SHEET”
Author: Katie Moisse; Source/Publisher: ABC News; Date: August 5, 2013
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/performance-enhancing-drugs-cheat-sheet/story?id=19871506
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. For any of the drugs detailed in the sections of this article, how do they work, what are the health risks,
and how often are they used by athletes?
2. What evidence is presented in this article that deepens your understanding of the issue surrounding
performance-enhancing drugs in sports?
3. What evidence does this text provide that inSuences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
Author: Luke Bauer; Source/Publisher: Odell Education; Date: December 5, 2013
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. How does the author describe performance-enhancing drugs?
2. What comparison is made between modern athletes and ancient Greek and Mayan athletes?
3. What “competitive environment” is being described that is responsible for increases in performance
enhancing drug usage among athletes?
TEXT 1.2: “HISTORICAL TIMELINE: HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS IN
SPORTS”
Author/Source/Publisher: ProCon.org; Date: Last Updated August 8, 2013
http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000017
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. In any year or era, what does the timeline’s text say happened regarding performance-enhancing drugs?
What might the impact of these events have been on people who lived during this time?
2. What evidence does this text provide that influences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
3. What is the earliest documented usage of performance-enhancing substances in athletics? Where did the
word “doping” come from?
4. In what sports have performance-enhancing drugs been used?
5. Which entries on the timeline indicate attempts to restrict the usage of performance enhancing drugs in
sports?
6. What evidence does this text provide that influences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
TEXT 1.3: “STEROIDS”
Author/Source/Publisher: Kids Health; Date: 2013
http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/sports/steroids.html
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. What are steroids?
2. In what forms can you put steroids into your body?
3. What reasons does the author provide for why “using steroids isn’t playing fair?”
4. What evidence does this text provide that influences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
TEXT 2.1: “HOW TO GET DOPING OUT OF SPORTS”
Author: Jonathan Vaughters; Source/Publisher: The New York Times; Date: August 11, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/how-to-get-doping-out-of-sports.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. What textual details support Vaughters claim that, “Achieving childhood dreams is a hard road.”?
2. What is the “2%” that Vaughters describes?
3. What does Vaughters mean by, “The answer is not to teach young athletes that giving up lifelong dreams
is better than giving in to cheating. The answer is to never give them the option.”?
4. What evidence does this text provide that influences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?
TEXT 2.2: “PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS OUTSIDE OF PRO SPORTS”
Author: Kyung Lah; Source/Publisher: Anderson Cooper 360: CNN; Date: August 5, 2013
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/05/performance-enhancing-drugs-outside-of-pro-sports/
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. What evidence from the video helps explain Je"rey Life’s statement, “I’m not against aging. I’m against
getting old.”?
2. What are the long terms costs to using Human Growth Hormone described by Dr. Tom Perls from Boston
University?
TEXT 2.3: “PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS: A CHEAT SHEET”
Author: Katie Moisse; Source/Publisher: ABC News; Date: August 5, 2013
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/performance-enhancing-drugs-cheat-sheet/story?id=19871506
Text-Dependent Questions (to drive closer reading and discussion):
1. For any of the drugs detailed in the sections of this article, how do they work, what are the health risks,
and how often are they used by athletes?
2. What evidence is presented in this article that deepens your understanding of the issue surrounding
performance-enhancing drugs in sports?
3. What evidence does this text provide that inSuences your understanding of the issue/problem of
performance-enhancing drugs in the US?