1. By now you’ve encountered some of the most telling, important or poignant points of the book. Do your best to quote those points (or parts of them) in a blog post. You might consider following the format we’ve talked about in regards to body paragraphs of essays – that is, context, quote, citation, and commentary. Shoot for three quality quotes and explanations of major events, important moments/character descriptions, or repeated themes/theses. Explanations may include your personal opinion and,,, reaction to how you interpreted the given section.
2. Find another classmates’ blog and respond/react to something they’ve done so far – a question, a picture, a quote. Then, in your blog, introduce what you’re asked to do here and copy and paste your response into your this blog post from their blog. (It is easier to grade them this way, thanks for your understanding.)
1- Quote summary:
Odessa is primarily based around football; it's their everything. “Those lights become an addiction if you live in a place like Odessa, the Friday Night fix.” (pg. xiv); this addiction happens to a select few of players at our high school and basically to none of our fans, unfortunatly. Football seems to be just a sport in Carbondale but that's not right. It shouldn't be that way! Football NEEDS to be a way of living. It is definately undermined.
Racism has always been at problem in this town, and no one refers to blacks other than n******s on the other side of town, they don't believe in mojo magic, which "like everything else in Odessa has never been extended across the railroad tracks" (pg.102). The tracks somewhat act like a race town divider, this is no wonder why Odessa is Permian's biggest rival. They think of Permian as a bunch of n*ggers but as this book goes to show, they are much better than that.
Old railroadWith the losses Permain had in the 88' season, their chances of making it to the playoff were slim, there was a three way tie so it all came down to a coin toss. "If the nickel came up tails, Permian was out of the playoffs, and the chorus of complaints and criticism against him would only intensify to the point that it might become unbearable for his family to remain in town. If it came up heads, it simply meant that three men would have to line up in a row and make jackasses of themselves once again in front of live television cameras." (pg.258). The coin toss was aired at 1 a.m. Resulting in heads, which sent Permian and Midland Lee into the playoffs.
Coin Toss
2- I commented on Jalen Jackson's blog:
Brandon Rishel said...