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July 24, 2018October 10, 2020Teaching Strategies

Reading Billy Collins’s “More Than a Woman” and David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster”

Part I:  Charming Billy I first came across the contemporary American poet, Billy Collins, in a workshop around the time he was named the United States Poet Laureate in 2001. […]

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Exigence and Women’s Soccer

The US Women’s National Soccer Team #USWNT triumphantly defeated the Netherlands to take the trophy for the fourth time in recent history. The sport is currently mired in controversy, however, with a class action lawsuit action against the United States Soccer Federation alleging that the USSF pays female players less than male players in violation of the US Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

This set of lessons addresses the exigence, or urgency, of players to speak out for gender equity but also to use their platform for a variety of causes.

 

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