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Lesson 5

We will compose a response to the following questions for the Section 3 Diagnostic: How does Bissinger portray the impact of gender on the students and athletic culture of Permian High School? How does Bissinger’s perspective compare to those of the authors of the other section texts?

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 texts and topics, support claims, and develop ideas?
  • Determine Meaning and Purpose: How well do I use connections among details, elements, and effects to make logical deductions about an author’s perspective, purpose, and meaning in texts?
  • Compare and Connect: How well do I recognize points of connection among texts, textual elements, and perspectives to make logical, objective comparisons?

Writing

  • Form Claims: How well do I develop and clearly communicate a meaningful and defensible claim that represents a 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?
  • 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

  • Unit Reader
    • “Women and Men in Sports: Separate is Not Equal,” Laura Pappano and Eileen McDonagh, The Christian Science Monitor, 2008
  • Digital Access
    • “Who Says Girls Can’t Play Football? Certainly Not 13-Year-Old Auburn Roberson,” Melissa Isaacson, ESPN, November 9, 2016
  • Tradebook
    • Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger, Da Capo Press, 1990

Materials

Tools

Reference Guides

Editable Google Docs

Activity 1: Read

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

Step 1

Alone or with a partner, review the Section 3 Diagnostic Checklist, as well as your completed Evaluating Ideas Tool and the responses and notes kept in your Learning Logs.

As you review these documents, consider the claims about gender Bissinger makes in Friday Night Lights, Isaacson makes in the video "Who Says Girls Can't Play Football? Certainly Not 13-Year-Old Auburn Roberson," and Pappano and McDonagh make in the article "Women and Men in Sports: Separate is Not Equal."

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 3 Diagnostic Checklist as a guide, draft your response to the Section Diagnostic prompt:

  1. How does Bissinger portray the impact of gender on the students and athletic culture of Permian High?

  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, revise, and edit your paragraphs, paying attention to how clearly you have communicated your ideas. Use the Section 3 Diagnostic Checklist to guide your revision.

Activity 4: Write – Discuss

We will reflect on our work 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.

Activity 5: Read

For homework, we will read the first three parts of chapter 11 in Friday Night Lights.

Read and annotate the first three parts of Chapter 11 in Friday Night Lights, paying attention to how Bissinger describes the actions of the citizens of Odessa and Midland during the oil boom and bust of the 1980s and how he uses this description to reflect their values.

Write down new or interesting words in your Vocabulary Journal.

Write down sentences that stand out to you as interesting or that represent a strong example of a particular concept you have learned in your Mentor Sentence Journal.