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Lesson 6

We will compose a response to the following questions for the Section 2 Diagnostic: How does Bissinger portray how factors of race and socioeconomic status affect high school football in Odessa? How does Bissinger’s perspective compare to those of the authors of the other section texts?

Lesson Goals

Reading and Knowledge

  • Analyze Relationships: How well do I recognize and interpret important relationships among key details and ideas in Friday Night Lights?
  • Gather and Organize Evidence: How well do I gather and organize relevant and sufficient evidence from Friday Night Lights and the additional texts to demonstrate an understanding of the theme of race and socioeconomics, and to support claims and develop ideas?
  • Compare and Connect: How well do I recognize points of connection among texts, textual elements, and perspectives to make logical, objective comparisons?
  • Determine Meaning and Purpose: How well do I use connections among details, elements, and effects to make logical deductions about Bissinger in Friday Night Lights, as well as the authors of the supplemental texts?

Writing

  • Form Claims: How well do I develop and clearly communicate meaningful and defensible claims that represent valid, evidence-based analysis of the texts we are reading?
  • Organize Ideas: How well do I sequence and group sentences and paragraphs and use devices, techniques, descriptions, reasoning, evidence, and visual elements to establish coherent, logical, and well-developed narratives, explanations, and arguments?
  • 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

  • Tradebook
    • Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger, Da Capo Press, 1990
  • Unit Reader
    • “The White Flight from Football,” Alana Semuels, The Atlantic Media Co., 2019
    • “Unchecked, Unchallenged and Unabashed: Is Racism in High School Sports Being Tolerated?,” Ivey DeJesus, PA Media Group LLC, 2014

Materials

Tools

Reference Guides

Editable Google Docs

Activity 1: Read

We will prepare to draft our response to the Section Diagnostic.

Step 1

Review the Section 2 Diagnostic Checklist as well as your completed Learning Logs and tools.

As you review these documents, consider the claims about race and the socioeconomic status Bissinger makes in Friday Night Lights, DeJesus makes in "Unchecked, Unchallenged and Unabashed: Is Racism in High School Sports Being Tolerated?" and Semuels makes in "The White Flight from Football." 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.

Review your Mentor Sentence Journal. Select at least one technique that you plan to use when writing your response to the Section Diagnostic

Activity 2: Write

We will complete the Section Diagnostic.

Using your notes and the Section 2 Diagnostic Checklist as a guide, draft your response to the Section Diagnostic prompt:

  1. How does Bissinger portray how factors of race and socioeconomic status affect high school football in Odessa?

  2. How does Bissinger’s perspective compare to those of the authors of the other section texts?

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 revise your paragraphs, paying attention to how clearly you have communicated your ideas. Use the Section 2 Diagnostic Checklist to guide your revision.

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:

  1. How well did you take necessary action to prepare for the task?

  2. What went well for you during the completion of this task?

  3. What did you struggle with during the completion of this task? How did you push through that struggle?

  4. How well did you actively focus your attention during this independent task?

  5. How well did you develop and use an effective and efficient process to maintain workflow during this task?

  6. 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.