State - Melissa Isaacson

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Résumé :
A powerful first-person story of the 70s: an unlikely group of high school girls who came together to win one of their state?s first-ever girls? basketball championships, told by trailblazing sports journalist Melissa Isaacson and set against the backdrop of radical social change ushered in by the passing of Title IX in 1972.

Biographie:
Melissa Isaacson is an award-winning sportswriter, author, and public speaker. In more than thirty years on the job, she has covered every major US sports championship as well as the Olympics. She has written for numerous publications, including long tenures at such institutions as ESPN and the Chicago Tribune. She was the Tribune’s first woman columnist and beat writer on the Bulls and Bears, and she covered the Michael Jordan–led Bulls over their six NBA titles. She is currently on the faculty of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and lives in the Chicago area. Teacher resources for State can be found here.

Sommaire:
Prologue Chapter 1: Our Coach Chapter 2: ?Well, I guess I?ll go try sports? Chapter 3: Grovers and Wooders and Billy Schnurr Chapter 4: Inappropriate Cheering and the Half-Court Shot Chapter 5: ?Son, son, get up!? Chapter 6: New Beginnings, New Rituals Chapter 7: Shirley?s Arm, Bridget?s Face, and Mighty Hinsdale South Chapter 8: Dark Secrets Chapter 9: Fun with Concussions and those Weird Lumps Chapter 10: Addition by Subtraction Chapter 11: Having It All Chapter 12: The Mighty Susies and Other Technicalities Chapter 13: The Ultimate Slap Chapter 14: Saturday Night Fever and a Champaign Hangover Chapter 15: Big Whip Chapter 16: Safe Haven Chapter 17: Earl?s Girls Chapter 18: Dreidl, Dreidl, Dreidl Chapter 19: Let It Snow Chapter 20: Perfect Shmerfect Chapter 21: Joy Is . . . Chapter 22: Why Not Us? Chapter 23: April Fools Epilogue