"Dreaming of Heroes" Chapter 4 work

Today we will:

• select an effective strategy for generating; ideas and planning writing
• gather, analyze, synthesize and organize information from the excerpt
• select specific details relevant to the topic to extend ideas or develop elaboration
• (this will be done using our Friday Night Lights Comparison and Contrast Worksheet)
• use this worksheet as a graphic organizer, and use the accompanying outline to write an essay

WHATEVER WE DO NOT FINISH IN CLASS, WILL BE HOMEWORK!!DUE TOMORROW!

***This will be practice for our in-class writing assessment which will be done on Tuesday (in place of a quiz)--BOTH WILL count as essay grades.****

Agenda:

• Review the last set of reading (from Tuesday)
• Read Ch. 4 as a class
• Fill out our comp/contrast worksheet together
• Begin drafting our essays--we can all use the same introduction (and transition sentences if need)

      Mike Winchell                                                               Billy Winchell

Words	Actions	Words	Actions
Appearance	Reputation	Appearance	Reputation

Don Billingsley (son)                                                                       Charlie Billingsley (father)

Words	Actions	Words	Actions
Appearance	Reputation	Appearance	Reputation

Commentary: What do you think Bissinger wanted his readers to learn about fathers and sons from his discussion of Mike and Billy and Charlie and Don? (Write at least two sentences)

While Friday Night Lights appears to be just a book about Texas football, it has much more to say about the different fathers and sons who both play and love the sport (JUST LIKE THE LAST TWO STORIES BY AMY TAN HAD TO DO WITH MOTHER/DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS)

Introduction:

            It was football that "had brought the two of them together in the first place, and it seemed destined to keep them together" (Bissinger 9). This quote shows one of the central ideas in H.G. Bissingers book, Friday Night Lights. In a chapter he entitles "Dreaming of Heroes," Bissinger describes two very different fathers and sons. He does this to show us how each son's relationship with his father, shapes who he is and how the world sees him.