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what did he read, what did he observe? How long did his research take? What did he choose as the main narrative thread of his book, and what effects does that strategy create for readers?
2. Why is Odessa's economic history relevant to Bisssinger"'"s book, ostensibly about football? What does the history of town"'"s economy have to do with its attitudes towards school and football, towards its enculturation of boys as men and girls as women? What do its attempts at integration suggest about the town"'"s attitudes towards race and class?

3. Education theorist Michael Apple has written of the '"'hidden curriculum'"': that which becomes a routine, ritualized part of what the students learn, but is not found in any textbook or lesson plan. Insofar as you can tell from Friday Night Lights, what do the students of Permian High School learn as a result of its '"'hidden curriculum'"'?

4. Permian High School"'"s football team has a full-time head coach, a number of assistant coaches...

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