This picture over exaggerates but shows a good point of how terrified the other teams are of Ivory. He is a great player who plays with hate. He has potential but he does not believe it himself.

Thinking Question #3

Grades at the Permian High School are very low. The kids don't even care about school. What could a school do to get their kids more interested and get their grades up?

"Black" Can i come to your school?

"white" No!

This is a picture that shows the racism at Permian High School.

This Picture shows a main event in the book "Friday Night Lights" When Boobie, a top player from the team Panthers of Odessa, Texas. broke his leg. that effected the team.

Summary of Chapters 4-6

The town of Odessa and Permian High School have had a lot of problems with racism. The blacks and whites had seperate schools until the 1970's. Permian was an all-white school. Even when they allowed black to attend Permian there was still lots of racism. The blacks were still treated like they weren't good enough. The coaches were happy to have the black kids on their football team. The football field is the only place where black actually got any respect. Off the field they were just a black person again. The fans cheered for all of the football players, even the blacks. There is only six black players on the Permian High School team. Every one of them started. The whites only respected them becuase they were football players. As soon as they left the field they were mistreated again.

Thinking question two

In odessa there was apparent racism all around the town. Do you think racism is as prevalant now as it was in the 80s? Do you think nationalities are treated different when it comes to sports?

Summary of Discussion

We discussed how Odessa is located in the middle of no where on an oil field. The town started out of the oil boom and rush to make it rich. The towns population fluctuated greatly. This town grew to be large in a considerably short period of time. We discdussed what it would be like if there was still Racism like there was in the 80's. We discussed bobbie miles and his cocky nature and his need for attention after all he was the star of the team. Boobie believed he could fill the large Shoes of sean Crow who was the RB the previous year, they made it to the statechampionship and lost. As this book starts we have learned a many things, but the most important being that Permian high school and Odessa cared about one thing and one thing only, Football. Football was the Tradition of the town for years and years. When Friday night came around Everyone in the town of Odessa headed to the football field. The grandstands rumbled with the roar of thousands of fans as the panthers took the stage beneath the Friday Night Lights. It was game time.

Summary of Chapters 1-3

The beginning starts off with explaining the history of Odessa to us. Odessa is a town that is in the middle of nowwhere in Texas. It is a boomtown so its population goes up and down. Odessa had nothing until people discovered all of the oil in the town. Odessa has a huge tradition in following high school football. The whole state of Texas follows high school football. Odessa's high school is the Permian Panthers. Permian has a tradition of being one of the top football teams in all of Texas. It is the beginning of the 1988 football season and Permian has thousands of supporters. Their star player is their running back Boobie Miles. He can do anything on the football field. Everything in his life revolves around football. He isn't very good in school but he has scholarships to play at the Division 1 football level. It is his senior year. In a preseason game he hurts his knee and the doctor said it is a serious injury. It could cost Boobie a shot at playing college football. What is Boobie going to do if he can't play football?......

Thinking Question #1

In the beginning of the book the star player Boobie Miles is injured. The doctor said it is a serious injury in his knee. Have you ever been badly injured that it has kept you from participating in events?