The Outsiders Our Class Novel Study Learning Goals

The Outsiders Our Class Novel Study

Learning Goals • Demonstrate an understand of main ideas, event, or themes of a novel, story and other print • Explain the motivation of the characters in works of communication, providing evidence from the text of each work • Identify and explain connections between new ideas and information and their previous beliefs, values, and experiences • Revise and edit their work to improve content, organization, and effect to best suit their audience and purpose

Lesson 1: Outside Identity! • Define: identity, Class and race. • Provide an example of each. • In groups of 3 or 4, brain storm on a joint google doc these topics dealing with identity: – individuality, – Cliques – gangs

• Lets discuss what you’ve come up with? • https: //youtu. be/j 4 p. FHm. Su. HRQ – What can we learn about the novel by watching this trailer? – What is the different between individuality and belonging to a clique or gang identity?

Lesson 2: 1960 s Setting • Outsiders Journal – “What is your impression of the setting, including the time period and place? What clues helped you come to these conclusions? • Let’s take a look at what the 1960 s looked like.

• How do the 1960 s relate to 2015? • Magazine activity: • 1. Find two advertisements from your magazine. These ads must include representations of people. • 2. Exame how men and women are portrayed in the ads: How are differences shown? • What ideals are created? What identity is created?

Lesson 3: Who Am I? • • In pairs, write a name poem for Ponyboy P O N Y B O Y

• What do our name poems for Ponyboy say about him? • Choose a famous person who you feel shares similar identity and has the same values as you. Jot down in a paragraph or two why you feel the two of you have similar values or identities. You can choose to do someone who is oppose of you. • Share with your partner when finished.

Lesson 4: Clash of the Cliques • You have been given new Identity cards. This is your new identity for the rest of this class. • You will be given scenes to act out. Scenes and groups work on their scenes. Act them out at the end of class.

Lesson 6: Staying Gold • Why do you think Johnny killed Bob? Do you think you would have reacted differently? • https: //youtu. be/4 s. Ihtnq. TDKo • What could have been some alternatives? • If you were Ponyboy and Johnny, whom would you turn to for help? Why do you think they went to Dally? • Why do you think Ponyboy and Johnny’s situation prompted Ponyboy’s recitation of “Nothing Gold can Stay”

• https: //youtu. be/c. Ow. Pa. C 3 Za. QQ Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can stay.

• What do you think about this poem? • What could it mean about Johnny and Ponyboy?

Lesson 7: Are they Heroes? • Journal: finish the sentences: “The best thing about me is…” and “The worst thing about me is…” • Why did you chose things? • What’s the difference between Cherry the Soc and Cherry the Dreamer? • Why is Cherry going to say that Johnny acted in self-defense?

• Think about our super heroes today? • Are Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally heroes? Why or why not? • Create a google slide to show your answer.

Lesson 9: This just in! • Create a newspaper article from the point of view of either a Greaser or a Soc about one of the two following events: – Johnny’s stabbing of Bob, OR – Johnny and Ponyboy’s rescue of the children in the church fire Remember to look at the text, Chapter 4 and 6, for useful information to include and influence your article.

Lesson 10: Nothing Gold can Stay • Re-read the poem “Nothing Gold can Stay” • Read page 178 -179, Johnny’s letters to Ponyboy. • What changes Johnny’s outlook on death? • Is he happy to die? Proud? • https: //youtu. be/Y 9 u. TKBZl 5 aw • What is his advice to Ponyboy?

• Why do you think none of the Greasers told Jonny about Dally’s death? • “He mean you’re gold when you’re a kid, like green” – what was Johnny trying to say? • What is the significance of sunsets? It is discussed a few times throughout the novel, what could it symbolize? • Why does Hinton repeat the same lines at the end of the novel as she begins it with? • Why is this significant? • What does it tell us about Ponyboy? • What does the novel Gone with the Wind have to do with theme of the novel? The poem?

• Write a journal entry describing how you feel now that you’ve finished the novel. • https: //youtu. be/n. R 8 j. Mytow. K 4 • What feelings do you get when you watch this final scene?