TEACHING RESOURCES

Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Light's, shows the dying seconds of the State Championship game. 

Teaching Ideas

  • The way the scene is shot can be great for again encouraging the children to build suspense. 
  • They can use similes and metaphors to describe the tackles and movements of the players. 
  • It is also a great way for children to show their empathy for characters by writing recounts of those final moments and the agony of defeat as the game finishes.
  • They could interview players about how they feel after the game.
  • They could write a newspaper report about the defeat.

What I particularly like about the above clip is that it isn't a happy ending. The team lose, I like to see how well the children could empathise with that. How often do children really get to follow that pattern? Where there isn't a happy ending?