The Outsiders
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What else?
1. You increase your reading tempo - handy for the exam in H5!
2. You travel to places and times that you otherwise never experience.
3. Reading improves your brain
So, now make a list of the reasons that reading can benefit YOU!
Lesson 2
Getting Started: The Outsiders
1. Read or listen to your teacher read the first 5 pages of iBoy
2. In pairs:
Student A will tell Student B a short summary of who the story is about and what happened
Student B will tell student A what kind of person the main character is, and what will happen next in the story
3. Now find words or sentences in the text that support this
Speaking about Books
For your speaking test, it is important to be able to describe how the main character changes from the beginning of the book and the end. This is called character development.
Another word for main character is protagonist.
The person or thing working against the main character is called the antagonist.
Character development
In The Outsiders, there are many challenges to develop Ponyboy's character.The person we meet at the beginning of the book changes in some way by the end of the book. The things that change the character are described by the events, people, or situations in the story. These all force the character to make choices and take action.
Why are the main character's actions so important
What do Darry's actions tell you about him in the way he goes after the gang members who hurt Ponyboy?
What do you think will change about Ponyboy at the end of the book?
Character Development
Lesson 3
Speaking about Books
This period you will practice speaking in groups called Literature Circles. Each student gets a different role:
Director: leads discussion, answers all the questions and explains
Creative: draws picture/cartoon, writes song/poem, acts
Connector: makes connections between book and own life
Predictor: imagines what will happen further in the book based on current events
Summarizer: gives description of what has been read in own words
Word Wizard: finds the meaning of ten words that are important to know and uses them in sentences
Each week the teacher will ask 1 group to do their speaking for the class for feedback they can use for the test.
Plot Development
For your speaking test, it is important to be able to describe what conflict of problem the main character has to solve in the story. The things that the main character does to solve the problem is called the plot development.
By solving all the problems and obstacles, the person changes. So plot development is related to character development.
Plot Development
Home/Environment
Knowing about his home in the West Side is very important to understand Ponyboys's personality at the beginning of the book, and his choices and actions later.
Not only has Ponyboy lost his parents, the home he shares with his brothers is in a poor, crime-ridden neighbourhood. In this neighborhood, the most powerful people were members of Gangs.
Preparing Literature Circles/Test
Plot Development: as you read, make notes in Team Notebook about the challenges that Tom experiences.
Setting : why is it important that the story is in this place? How would it be different in a rich neighbourhood, for instance?
Lesson 4
Speaking about books
Conflict drives the story development. The conflict can come from:
Other people
Himself (feeling conflict inside, guilt, worry, etc)
Organisations/authority (police, doctors, etc)
Nature (natural disasters like floods, electricity shortages, lightening, earthquake, etc.)
Crossing Borders
In The Outsiders, Ponyboy is born into a family and is part of a group that hates the Socs. Through the book, we see him fight the Socs and his friend even kills a Soc.
Darryl, Sodapop, and all of his friends keep telling him that he should hate the Socs. The Socs also have a negative opinion about the Greasers, and they see Ponyboy as a loser.
Which line did you choose?
What decision did the last person in the line have make?
Why did the last boy choose A even though he thought it was C?
What happens when we have a different opinion or answer than the rest of the group?
Why does the brain want to agree with the group?
Crossing Borders
But during the book, Ponyboy also makes friends with some of the Socs. He learns to see them as people, and think "outside of the box".
At the end of the book, things are different. Cherry has turned out to be a friend of the Greasers, and Ponyboy and Bob have a deep conversation in which they understand their similarities. They shake hands, even though they will never speak again.
Lesson 5
Genre: The Outsiders
The Outsiders is considered the first novel that was written specifically for teenagers. She started a new category, or genre, of books: Young Adult.
When S.E. Hinton was seventeen, she published The Outsiders, a story about the greasers and the rich kids in high school. Because she often writes from a boy’s point of view, she uses her initials S.E. instead of her name Susan Eloise. She explains, “I figured that most boys would look at the book and think, ‘What can a chick know about stuff like that?’”
When did the concept of 'teenagers' first appear historically?
Why was the League of Extraordinary Librarians organized?
What was the reason that the El Salvador immigrant children made their own gang?
What did Maureen Daily include in her book Seventeenth Summer which made it interesting for teens?
What changed about YA novels after 1967?
How did YA change with the publication of the Harry Potter series?
What is the current trend in YA literature?
What does YA provide its readers?
Which books have you read?
Lesson 6
Finding the Theme
The theme is the moral, message or life lesson the writer is trying to convey through his/her story. What do you think the writer is trying to tell you about life through this story?
It should be expressed in a sentence, such as, “True love will overcome everything in the end, even betrayal”.
It is not one or two words. That is the book's subject.
Coming of Age
In the Reader, you learn about
a type of story, Coming of
Age.
Watch the following short film, and
write down the beginning, problem,
struggle, big decision, and
ending.
What did you write?
Looking Forward
In Period 4 you will read a book which you will use in Period 1 HAVO 5 for your first PTA. You need to compare the character development and plot development between two books.
So be sure you understand all the literature concepts that we have learned this period!
But now you can review to prepare for the test!
What did NOT influence him to get out of the gang?
The police beating him
His mother worrying
His little brother's future
Alex's intervention group
Why did he want to become a member of MS-13?
Test Preparation - Review
How did he change his life when he moved to Colorado?
Let's see what you know
Why do you think the story is called "The Outsiders"?
Name at least 2 differences between the Socs and the Greasers
"Nothing gold can stay" What does this mean?
Why did Darry quit school?
Because he wasn't a very good student
Because he likes menial labour
Because he had to take care of Ponyboy
Because he was kicked out of school
Which of the following is a symbol in the story
violence
family
hair
honor and self sacrifice
How would you describe Johnny?
In the story, knives are a symbol. What do they symbolize?
What is described in the setting of a story?
The filmset
Time, place and environment of story
symbolism
the genre
What is the Genre of this story?
How do you think the test went?