Lesson 7
Based on our understanding of the first four chapters of Friday Night Lights, we will each write a response to the following question:
How do the fans in Odessa impact the players of the Permian football team?
Lesson Goals
Reading and Knowledge
- Gather and Organize Evidence: How well do I gather and organize relevant and sufficient evidence to demonstrate an understanding of the core texts and the topic of fandom?
- Analyze Relationships: How well do I recognize and interpret important relationships among the culture of Permian and fandom Bissinger describes and the people of Odessa?
- Determine Meaning and Purpose: How well do I use connections among details, elements, and effects to make logical deductions about Bissinger’s perspective, purpose, and meaning in Friday Night Lights?
Writing
- Form Claims: How well do I develop and clearly communicate meaningful and defensible claims about how the fans of Permian football impact the players represented by valid, evidence-based analysis?
- Develop Ideas: How well do I sequence and group sentences and paragraphs and use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual elements to develop coherent, logical, and well-developed narratives, explanations, and arguments about the football players of Permian High School?
- Uses Conventions to Communicate Clearly: How well do I apply correct and effective syntax, usage, mechanics, and spelling to communicate ideas and achieve intended purposes?
Texts
Core
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- Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger, Da Capo Press, 1990
Materials
Tools
Reference Guides
- Avoiding Plagiarism Reference Guide
- Claims Reference Guide
- Connecting Ideas Reference Guide
- Conventions Reference Guide
- Integrating Quotations Reference Guide
- Organization Reference Guide
- Style Reference Guide
Editable Google Docs
Activity 1: Read
We will get ready to complete the Section Diagnostic.
Step 1
Alone or with a partner, review the Section 1 Diagnostic Checklist, as well as your completed Character Note-Taking Tool, Attending to Details Tool, Claims Reference Guide, Forming Evidence-Based Claims Tool, and the responses and notes kept in your Learning Logs.
As you review these documents, consider the claims about fandom Bissinger makes in Friday Night Lights. Ensure you have documented these claims clearly in order to use them in your response to the Section Diagnostic.
Step 2
Review your Vocabulary Journal. Identify a significant word or words that you would like to use in your response to the Section Diagnostic.
Activity 2: Write
We will complete the Section Diagnostic.
Using your notes and the Section 1 Diagnostic Checklist as a guide, draft your response to the Section Diagnostic prompt:
How do the fans in Odessa impact the players of the Permian football team?
Activity 3: Write
We will revise our content and ideas to ensure that our work is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience. This will help us develop our work.
Review and edit your paragraphs, paying attention to how clearly you have communicated your ideas. Use the Section 1 Diagnostic Checklist to guide your revision.
Submit your revised response to your teacher.
Activity 4: Write – Discuss
We will reflect on our work on the Section Diagnostic and assess how prepared we are for the Culminating Task.
Step 1
Choose at least three of the questions below and respond to them in your Learning Log:
How well did you take necessary action to prepare for the task?
What went well for you during the completion of this task?
What did you struggle with during the completion of this task? How did you push through that struggle?
How well did you actively focus your attention during this independent task?
How well did you develop and use an effective and efficient process to maintain workflow during this task?
What would you do differently during the next Section Diagnostic?
Step 2
Review your Culminating Task Progress Tracker. Think about all you have learned and done during this section of the unit. Evaluate your skills and knowledge to determine how prepared you are for the Culminating Task.
Add or refine any skills and content knowledge required for the Culminating Task.
Evaluate how well you are mastering skills and knowledge required for the Culminating Task.
Engage in a reflective whole-class discussion if time allows.