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Friday Night LightsCulminating Task

Central Question

How do high school athletics reflect American society?

Task Question

  1. How does Bissinger portray high school athletic culture at Permian High School?

Write an expository essay in which you state your response and logically and sufficiently support your response with claims. Support your claims with relevant textual evidence, including direct quotations with parenthetical citations. Apply correct and effective words, phrases, syntax, usage, and mechanics to clearly communicate your analysis.

To demonstrate your understanding of the text, be sure to do the following:

  • Choose one of the aspects discussed in class—fandom, race, gender, and values—as your focus for describing Bissinger’s portrayal of high school athletics in Friday Night Lights.