Blog Post #9: Teaching Geopolitics SOAPSTone and Rhetorical Precis and summary

S: Someone who believes that Fantasy Football and other sports phenomenons are influencing our culture and education immensely
O: Teacher Eric Nelson figures out a new way he can use the idea of Fantasy Football to educate his students Geopolitics
A: Teachers, School Administration, parents, and students
P: To show a new perspective on Fantasy Football by using world countries
S: Toppo inserted many quotes and statistics to show how effective Nelson's teaching style was
T: Informative, Exciting,the author is excited about this idea and thinks that sports can continue to impact our culture and education
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Rhetorical Precis

In Greg Toppo news article "Teaching Geopolitics: Fantasy Football as a Learning Game"  his purpose is to show a new perspective on Fantasy Football by using the world countries to educate his students. The author first displays this by showing how strategically Nelson chooses his players in his own real Fantasy Football league, he then shows how you have to go deep into detail to choose the countries to get the most points, and to conclude he portrays that the students learn more from this activity and are more likely to participate in a fun manner. His purpose is to show how you can you use a system linked to sports in order to teach children at all levels. He seems to have a persuasive and informative audience in mind because he shows how he turned fantasy football into a teaching activity.


Summary and Analyze:

The general argument made by the author of fantasy football helping teach geopolitics in his work
"Teaching Geopolitics: Fantasy Football as a Learning Game", is that students can still learn but have fun at the same time. He writes that using specific strategy of choosing your countries and doing research just like you would when choosing players will help you win the most points. In this article, Greg Toppo suggest that if you can incorporate something that the children are intrigued by learning will be more fun and easy for the children. All of the children in Mr. Nelson's class would teach the class almost with all of their individual research that they found. In conclusion, Toppo's belief is that Nelson uses a great strategy to teach his high school students about Geopolitics.


In my view Toppo's is right because I agree that if you incorporate something the children are interested in and can link to the activity it will make it easier for them to have the motivation to carry on. More specifically, I believe that using this system was a great idea because it keeps the students in the game the more they learn making them want to learn more. I maintain that Nelson used a great strategy to teach the students about history and geography through such an intense game, which made the students strive to learn the most. Therefore, I conclude that using Fantasy football as a learning system could influence many children to stay active in the class room and participate more than usual now that they are linked to something they like.