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by Michele Israel
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"Boxing is drama on its grandest scale." Perhaps American sports journalist Howard Cosell best captured the sport's rigor, which Cuban schoolboys and champion boxers earnestly pursue and demonstrate. What drives this passion, and how is it manifested and rewarded? What impact does it have on young Cuban boxing hopefuls? And what do these young people understand of their role in Cuban society? How do they negotiate their determination and raw emotion, especially with the sport's "promise" of an exciting future? In this lesson, students examine the connection between boxing and Cuban society, as well as explore boxing's lure and influence.
Grade Level: 7-8, 9-12
Subject Matter: World History, Behavioral Studies, Economics, Geography
Time Allotment: Each activity has a suggested time frame (based on 50-minute class sessions).
As a result of completing the lesson, the students will be able to:
- outline the relationship between boxing and Cuban society (government, economy, politics)
- determine the rewards and downsides of Cuban boxing
- predict the future of Cuban boxing as it relates to the nation's future
STANDARDS
McREL: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
http://www.mcrel.org
Level III (Grades 7-8)
Level IV (Grades 9-12)
Behavioral Studies
- Standard 1: Understands that group and cultural influences contribute to human development, identity, and behavior
Benchmarks:
Level III: 5. Understands that various factors (e.g., wants and needs, talents, interests, influence of family and peers and media) affect decisions that individuals make
Level IV: 7. Understands that family, gender, ethnicity, nationality, institutional affiliations, socioeconomic status, and other group and cultural influences contribute to the shaping of a person's identity
Level IV: 10. Understands that the decisions of one generation both provide and limit the range of possibilities open to the next generation
Economics
- Standard 1: Understands that scarcity of productive resources requires choices that generate opportunity costs
Benchmarks:
Level III:
1. Understands that scarcity of resources necessitates choice at both the personal and the societal levels
2. Knows that all decisions involve opportunity costs and that effective economic decision making involves weighing the costs and benefits associated with alternative choices
3. Understands that the evaluation of choices and opportunity costs is subjective and differs across individuals and societies
Level IV:
4. Understands that investing in new physical or human capital involves a trade-off of lower current consumption in anticipation of greater future production and consumption
5. Understands that technological change and investments in capital goods and human capital may increase labor productivity but have significant opportunity costs and economic risks
Geography
- Standard 4: Understands the physical and human characteristics of places
Benchmarks:
Level III: 1. Knows the human characteristics of places
Level IV: 1. Knows how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places
World History
- Standard 45: Understands major global trends since World War II
Benchmarks Level IV:
2. Understands causes of economic imbalances and social inequalities among the world's peoples and efforts made to close these gaps
3. Understands connections between globalizing trends in economy, technology, and culture and dynamic assertions of traditional cultural identity and distinctiveness
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