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Introduction and Reading Tutorial
Unit 1 – The First Lap: Introduction to Sport Litreature

Unit 2 – Sprints: Reading Short Fiction

Unit 3 – Team Games: Hockey Literature, Canadian Identity, and Aging Athletes

Unit 4 – Subbing In: Sport Literature as an Alternative Approach to Sport History

Unit 5 – Going Multisport: Reading Sport Lit to Write Sport Lit

Unit 6 – Writing Whose Body in Motion? Race and Gender in Sport Literature

Unit 7 – The Last Length

Writing Assignment 5: Short Story Featuring Sport

Writing Assignment 6: Final Essay

Unit 1

Bullet Journal. www.bulletjournal.com
Abdou, Angie. Introduction. Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 3–10.
The Sweater. Directed by Sheldon Cohen, narrated by Roch Carrier, National Film Board of Canada, 1980. https://www.nfb.ca/film/sweater/

Watch this short animated video in which Carrier narrates his story The Hockey Sweater.

Unit 2

MacLeod, Alexander. "Miracle Mile." Light Lifting, Biblioasis Press, 2010, pp. 9–44.

Used with permission of Biblioasis Press, from Light Lifting, Alexander MacLeod, 2010; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Davis, Laura K. "Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod's 'Miracle Mile.'" Writing the Body in Motion, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 153–166.
Kinsella, W.P. “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa.” The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories. Penguin, 1982, pp. 427–439.
Mason, Fred. "W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe: The Fairy Tale, the Hero's Quest, and the Magic Realism of Baseball." Writing the Body in Motion, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 11–24.

Unit 3

Maggs, Randall. "Neither Rhyme nor Reason." Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, Brick Books, 2008.

The poem is available at the top of this linked site, before the Abdou blog.
Abdou, Angie. "How a Poet Tells Time." Brick Books, www.brickbooks.ca/week-18-randall-maggs-presented-by-angie-abdou/. Accessed 18 August 2021.

This is an interpretation of Maggs's poem, which precedes the article.
Dopp, Jamie. "Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston's The Good Body." Writing the Body in Motion, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 139–152.
"Why Fans of The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Should Read The Good Body by Bill Gaston." The Next Chapter, CBC Radio, www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-july-20-2019-1.4814229/why-fans-of-the-art-of-fielding-by-chad-harbach-should-read-the-good-body-by-bill-gaston-1.4817089. Accessed 18 August 2021.

Unit 4

Dopp, Jamie. "From Tank to Deep Water: Myth and History in Samantha Warwick's Sage Island." Writing the Body in Motion, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 139–152.
Abdou, Angie. “Why Read Historical Fiction About Sport?” Routledge Handbook of Sport History, edited by Murray J. Phillips, Douglas Booth, and Carly Adams, Routledge, 2022, pp. 74–81.
"Argument." The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. writingcenter.unc.edu/tip-and-tools-argument/. Accessed 18 August 2021.
"Writing an Academic Blog." The Writing Center, Hamilton College. https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/centers/writing/writing-resources/writing-academic-blogs. Accessed 18 August 2021.

Unit 5

"Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story." OpenCulture, www.openculture.com/2015/04/kurt-vonneguts-8-tips-on-how-to-write-a-good-short-story.html. Accessed 18 August 2021.
RedglassPics. "George Saunders - On Story." YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-1xNNrABw8. Accessed 18 August 2021.
"Fiction Writing Basics." Purdue OWL, owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/fiction_writing_basics/index.html. Accessed 18 August 2021.

Unit 6

McKegney, Sam, and Trevor J. Phillips. "Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: Ambivalence and Apotheosis in Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse." Writing the Body in Motion, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018.
"Tribute to Richard Wagamese." The Next Chapter, CBC Radio, www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/monica-mazigh-and-remembering-richard-wagamese-1.2015814/shelagh-rogers-remembers-richard-wagamese-1.4022275. Accessed 18 August 2021.
"Richard Wagamese on His Novel Indian Horse." CBC, www.cbc.ca/archives/author-richard-wagamese-on-his-novel-indian-horse-1.4673401. Accessed 18 August 2021.

Unit 7

"Sport Literature." The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sport-literature. Accessed 18 August 2021.
"MLA Sample Paper." Purdue OWL, owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_paper.html. Accessed 18 August 2021.

Writing Assignment 1: Sports Article and Reflection

Vlasic, Kimberley. "Elk Valley Dolphins Fin-ish Winter Season on a High." The Free Press [Fernie, BC], 3 May 2019, www.thefreepress.ca/local-sports/elk-valley-dolphins-fin-ish-winter-season-on-a-high/. Accessed 18 August 2021.