Assignment:
Frontline's League of Denial
Watch the Frontline documentary titled League of Denial. As you watch the film, listen for the overriding premise of the argument. What are the documentarians out to prove? In otherwords, what is their argument concerning football and concussions?
1. As you watch and absorb the information, note how the filmmakers go about constructing their argument. What specific examples do they offer viewers as a way to persuade us that their argument is logical, rational, based on data?
2. Choose 2 areas of the documentary that really caught your attention and write a short response revealing why these areas made an impact on you.
3. Look at the visual rhetoric offered. Did any particular image sway you, persuade you, cause you to move in one direction more than another for or against the argument?
4. In a short essay, respond to the argument presented in the documentary. Personal comments are encouraged, specific personal examples are encouraged as well.
5. If you played football or currently have children who are at an age to play football would you allow them to do so even after viewing the documentary?
6. Write your responses in a clearly composed essay of about 600 words. Write in Standard
Written American English and use conventional punctuation and capitalization.
7. When you make a personal statement of opinion you must use a specific image, section of the documentary or words, phrases, sentences or several lines of dialogue to support your thoughts. In other words, you must say that you feel the way you do in response to information presented to you in the documentary. Be sure to refer to the filmmaker, the narrator or any of the professionals by name and position held.
8. Essays must be typed in 12 point font, double spaced and have your name, Eng 100, the date, my name and the name of the assignment, League of Denial.
HINT: THE MORE EXAMPLES YOU USE THE MORE DEVELOPED YOUR OPINIONS.