BOOK: friday night lights by H. G. Bissinger

This paper will be approximately 5-6 pages not including requires quotes and borrowed ideas or any work cited pages if needed

. The paper is not a traditional multi paragraph paper, but rather a series of sections that you will complete. In order to be prepared for writing the final paper, do the following while reading: Try to identify the thesis of the author as your read. For our class, think of the thesis as the main conclusion or point the author is trying to make. The author is writing about a specific topic. His or her thesis is the conclusion the author has come to after listing out the evidence and ideas presented in the book. Make notes with page numbers of specific evidence or events that support the author’s thesis. List out pros and cons about the book. What did you like, what didn’t work and so forth. Keep page numbers of examples to explain your reaction. What questions would you ask the author that are not explained in the book?

These might come in the middle of a section or after the book as a whole. What role or non-role does government (state or national) play or should play or would be better off not playing as related to specific events in your book. Overall as you write the final paper, be able to refer back to specific parts of your book to include in your paper as documentation to the answers above or other issues you will want to write about. However just to look ahead a bit at the format of the paper. This is not a traditional paper with an opening and closing paragraph and multiple paragraphs in between. This paper will consist of three separate parts. Part one is where you will focus on what the author is telling you in your book from the authors point of view. In parts two and three you will have a chance to critique the book from your own point of view. Part two will be in objective critique, while part three is a subjective critique. Remember do not start writing your paper until you have the complete instructions from part three module. But If you have finished reading your book and want to start working on ideas for the paper, you can start to think about these three categories and what parts of the book, meaning specific quotes and ideas from the book, you can use to show what the author’s point of view and purpose is and how you feel about the book both academically and personally.