Excerpt from "Playing the Enemy"

Sports and politics are often a good mix. John Carlin shows how this is true in his nonfiction account of "Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation."

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 7 Unit 3's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Tangerine, A stunning tale of escape, To an Athlete Dying Young, Biography of Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Landmarks of Nelson Mandela's Life, Invictus, Playing the Enemy, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech