Football fans and ready readers will enjoy a instructional activity based on H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights. Focusing on chapter 4, the instructional activity encourages tenth graders to examine Mike's character development as it relates to the season opener and how it helps to establish his point of view.

Concepts

reading comprehension, literary analysis, character development, central ideas, literary themes, point of view, textual evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Encourage young writers to complete a journal entry about how sports has affected their lives or how another hobby or interest informs their personality
• Assign the whole novel to advanced or older readers

Classroom Considerations

• The lesson is the eleventh out of a 14-part series that focuses on literary development
• Includes the preface and fourth chapter of the novel as the primary focus of the lesson

Pros

• The excerpt is engaging and applicable to the lives of teenagers
• Provides a graphic organizer for collecting relevant quotes

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.9-10.3 RI.9-10.6 W.9-10.9.a W.9-10.9.b SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.1.d L.9-10.3.a L.9-10.4.a