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The Outsiders Student Journal Due Date Discussion Date

Introduction Pages 2–4

Chapters 1–2 Pages 5–6





Chapter 12 Pages 15–16

The Exchange

Assessment

The Outsidersby S. E. Hinton

What can life teach us that school cannot?

Student Journal page 2 of 16 © Hampton-Brown

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Getting Started

What If?You just graduated high school and need to make a decision about your future. Do you go to college or take a year to travel? Your parents really want you to go to college right away. But you do not know where you want to go or what you want to study. You need some time to think about it.

You have always wanted to see Europe. You might even do some volunteer work in another country. But you know you have to convince your parents that school can wait a year while you take some time to see the world.

Make notes about how this would affect you.

• How do you convince your parents to let you go?• What would be the consequences of delaying college for a year?• What could traveling teach you that you could not learn in college?

Connect to The Exchange Question Discuss how this situation could relate to The Exchange question: What can life teach us that school cannot? Summarize your discussion.


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Introduction

Read the Introduction on pages 7–9 in The Outsiders. The Introduction will help you understand key concepts in the book. Knowing them will help you discuss and write about the book.

The Introduction includes information about

• the greasers and the Socials—two rival groups in the story• gang violence in the 1960s• why the author wrote the book

After you read the Introduction, answer these questions to check your understanding.

1. How are the greasers and the Socials different? How are they alike?

2. What experience with gang violence led Hinton to write this book?

3. By writing The Outsiders, how did Hinton break the stereotype of female writers in the 1960s?


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Introduction: Key Concepts

Word Web

Study the Word Web for delinquent. What words does delinquent make you think of? Write a sentence using the word delinquent.

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Key Conceptscircumstancedelinquentrivalsocialterritory

On a separate sheet of paper, create a similar Word Web for each of the Key Concept words. Write a sentence for each one.

Word Web

violence youth

trouble crime

Key Conceptdelinquent


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Respond to Chapters 1–21. Personal Response Darry must be a parent to Ponyboy. He thinks

that the best way to discipline Ponyboy is to yell at him. If you were Darry, how would you discipline Ponyboy?

2. Conclusions Ponyboy explains that people think of greasers as delinquents. What do the greasers do that make people think ofthem this way? Use the word delinquent in your response.

3. Allusion Ponyboy compares himself to Pip, the main character in Dickens’s Great Expectations. People think less of Pip because heis poor. Why does Ponyboy compare himself to Pip?

4. Generate Questions Write a question about this section for someone else reading this book. Exchange questions with them. Do you agree with their answer?


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Respond to Chapters 1–2, continued

5. Character In Chapters 1–2, Ponyboy introduces Johnny. Write what you know about Johnny. Use the Details Web to answer the question.

Details Web

How is Johnny unlike the typical greaser? Why do you think he chose to be a greaser?

Johnny


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Respond to Chapters 3–41. Personal Response Ponyboy thinks that he would feel free and safe

in the country. In what place do you feel the most comfortable? Why?

2. Comparisons Ponyboy realizes he and Cherry have things in common, even though they are from rival groups. How are Ponyboy and Cherry alike? Use the word rival in your response.

3. Cause and Effect Why does Darry react so angrily when Ponyboy stays out late with Johnny? What effect does Darry’s discipline have on Ponyboy?



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5. Plot In Chapters 3–4, Ponyboy and Johnny get into trouble with the Socials. Write the effects of the characters’ actions in the Effects box.

Cause and Effect Chart

Causes Effects

How might the story have been different if Ponyboy and Johnny had teased the girls along with Dallas?

Dallas teases Cherry and Marcia.

Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit walk the girls home.

The Socs start a fight with Ponyboy and Johnny.

The boys ask Dallas for help.


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Respond to Chapters 5–61. Personal Response Ponyboy is proud of his hair. He feels like it

is part of his identity. What part of your identity are you the most proud of? Why?

2. Summarize The Socials and greasers decide to fight to determine territory. What happens to the greasers’ territory if they win? If the Socs win? Use the word territory in your response.

3. Irony Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dallas are heroes for rescuing the children. Why is it ironic when Jerry Wood says they were sent from heaven?



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5. Character In Chapters 5–6, Johnny and Ponyboy accidentally start a fire. List the events in the order in which they happen.

Sequence Chart

Dallas does not help the boys save the children from the fire, but saves Ponyboy and Johnny. What does this show about Dallas’s loyalty?

Next:

Last:

First: Johnny and Ponyboy smoke cigarettes in the church.


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Respond to Chapters 7–81. Personal Response The local newspapers call Ponyboy, Johnny, and

Dallas heroes. Who is your hero? Why is he or she heroic?

2. Inference Reporters fill the hospital to interview the boys. What about the boys’ social background might make the reporters so interested in the story? Use social in your response.

3. Comparisons Randy tells Ponyboy about Bob’s home life. How is it similar to and different from Johnny’s home life?



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5. Comparisons In Chapters 7–8, visitors come to see Johnny at the hospital. Describe what Johnny says and does and what this reveals about him.

Character Description Map

Johnny likes hearing Ponyboy read about the southern gentlemen who rode off to war, knowing that they would die. How is Johnny similar to a southern gentleman?

Character What the Character Does

What This Shows About the Character

Johnny


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Respond to Chapters 9–111. Personal Response What character or event do you relate to the

most in this part of the book? Why?

2. Character’s Point of View At the rumble, Darry faces a former classmate and teammate, Paul Holden. Why are Darry and Paul rivals? Use the word rivals in your response.

3. Cause and Effect What causes Ponyboy to be worried that he might not have asked for Darry while he was ill?



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5. Opinions In Chapters 9–11, Johnny and Dallas die. List details about each character’s actions in the T Chart.

Do Johnny and Dallas die as greasers or heroes, or both? Explain.

T Chart

Dallas Johnny


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Respond to Chapter 121. Personal Response Ponyboy writes his theme about greasers

because he thinks they are misunderstood. If you had to write about a social group in your school, which group would you choose? Why?

2. Comparisons How are the circumstances of Ponyboy’s life better by the end of the story? How are they worse? Use the word circumstance in your response.

3. Dialogue After Soda runs out of the house, the three brothers have a talk about their relationship. What does their conversation tell you about how the boys feel about each other?

What If?4. Connect Look at your notes on Student Journal, page 2. Think about what might

happen if you had to make a decision about life, and school could not teach you the answer. Compare this to The Outsiders. What does life teach Ponyboy that school does not?


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Respond to Chapter 12, continued

5. Author’s Purpose In Chapter 12, Ponyboy wants to write about the greasers for his English class. List the details of Ponyboy’s theme in the Five Ws Chart.

Five Ws Chart

Why does Hinton end the book this way?

What Is It?

Who Is It About?

Where Is the Setting?

When Does It Take Place?

Why Does He Write It?

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