DOL—February 2, 2011

1. Get out your essay. Put it in the following order:

Top: Final Draft

Middle: Rewrites

Bottom: On-Demand

2. Describe what an “outsider” is and write your answers in sentence form using parallel structure.

DOL—February 3, 2011

1. Get out your handout from yesterday about The Outsiders.

2. What are the three main social classes? Write your answer using parallel structure.

Absent-mindedly

Definition: unaware of surroundings; preoccupied

Sentence: “I absent-mindedly watched Darry as he searched the icebox for chocolate cake” (Hinton 97).

A’woofin’

Definition: kidding or teasing

Sentence: “’Ain’t you about to freeze to death, Pony?’ ‘You ain’t a’woofin’,’ I said, rubbing my bare arms between drags on my cigarette” (Hinton 49).

Blade

Definition: short for switchblade, a type of pocketknife

Sentence: “’Look!’ He showed me the handkerchief, reddened as if by magic. ‘Did they pull a blade on you?’” (Hinton 10).

Bopper

Definition: rumbler, or fighter, to the Brumly gang

Sentence: “I mean, you take a guy that calls a rumble “bop-action,” and you can tell he isn’t real educated” (Hinton 122).

Bum

Definition: used as an adjective to mean wretched, worthless

Sentence: “’And even if you are mad at us, that’s no reason to go walking the streets with these bums’” (Hinton 41).

Crocked

Definition: drunk

Sentence: “He was pretty well crocked, which made me apprehensive. If Dally was drunk and in a dangerous mood…” (Hinton 54).

Dig

Definition: understand, appreciate

Sentence: “Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold” (Hinton 154).

Fuzz

Definition: police

Sentence: “’How’s Sodapop? Are the fuzz after us? Is Darry all right? Do the boys know where we are? What…’” (Hinton 71).

Gallantly

Definition: brave

Sentence: “Two-Bit gallantly offered to walk them home—the west side of town was only about twenty miles away—but they wanted to call their parents and have them come get them” (Hinton 35).

Heater

Definition: gun

Sentence: “I didn’t know about the Brumly boys, but I knew Shepard’s gang were used to fighting with anything they could get their hands on—bicycle chains, blades, pop bottles, pieces of pipe, pool sticks, or sometimes even heaters” (Hinton 122).

DOL—February 7, 2011

1. Write parallel sentences for who won the Super Bowl (Green Bay Packers) and who lost the Super Bowl (Pittsburg Steelers).

2. What is parallel about MY number one above?

3. NO ESSAY!!!

Icebox

Definition: refrigerator

Sentence: “I hunted through the icebox and found some eggs” (Hinton 92).

Madras

Definition: a light, cotton fabric of various weaves, used for shirts

Sentence: “He had on a madras shirt. I can still see it. Blue madras” (Hinton 8).

Pickled

Definition: drunk

Sentence: “Five Socs were coming straight at us, and from the way they were staggering I figured they were reeling pickled” (Hinton 50).

Reformatory

Definition: a correctional institution for minors

Sentence: “If Johnny got caught, they’d give him the electric chair, and if they caught me, I’d be sent to a reformatory” (Hinton 59).

Savvy?

Definition: “Understand?”

Sentence: “…It’s just because you’re the baby—I mean, he loves you a lot. Savvy?’” (Hinton 19).

Snooker

Definition: a game that is a variant of pool, played with 15 red balls (with a point value of 1) and 6 balls of other colors (with point values from 2-7)

Sentence: “’Gonna go play a little snooker and hunt up a poker game…’” (Hinton 43).

Tuff

Definition: different from “tough” which means rough; “tuff” means “cool, sharp”

Sentence: “Tough and tuff are two different words. Tough is the same as rough; tuff means cool, sharp—like a tuff-looking Mustang or a tuff record. In our neighborhood both are compliments” (Hinton 14).

Turf

Definition: territory

Sentence: “Once we even found Tim Shepard, leader of the Shepard gang and far from his own turf, reading the morning paper in the armchair” (Hinton 93).

Weed

Definition: cigarette

Sentence: “Two-Bit grinned and lit a cigarette. ‘Anyone want a weed?’” (Hinton 29).