REFLECTIONS ON THE OUTSIDERS

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

     Level 1: Answer questions 1 and 2

     Level 2: Answer questions 1, 2 and 3 
     Level 3: Answer all 5 questions

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

OPTION 1:

1. During the trial, Ponyboy says the Socs only tell one lie. What is it?

2. What is the judge's decision on the trial?

3. Who wants to talk with Ponyboy about his grades?

4. What does Ponyboy have to do to earn a C?

5. What does Ponyboy do to the Soc that threatens him?

OPTION 2:

HOW IS THE SOCIAL DIVIDE IN THE OUTSIDERS LIKE THE SOCIAL DIVIDE TODAY IN NYC?  WHAT IS THE SAME? WHAT IS DIFFERENT?  THINK ABOUT WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN CLASS.

PONYBOY AT THE TRIAL

11/25/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

     Level 1: Answer questions 1 and 2

     Level 2: Answer questions 1, 2 and 3 
     Level 3: Answer all 5 questions

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. During the trial, Ponyboy says the Socs only tell one lie. What is it?

2. What is the judge's decision on the trial?

3. Who wants to talk with Ponyboy about his grades?

4. What does Ponyboy have to do to earn a C?

5. What does Ponyboy do to the Soc that threatens him?

PONYBOY IN DELIRIUM

11/24/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

     Level 1: Answer questions 1 and 2

     Level 2: Answer questions 1, 2 and 3 
     Level 3: Answer all 5 questions

 **All homework must be signed by a parent.** 

      Dear parent/guardian, 

      Please review and sign you child's homework daily. 

      Ms. Tyler

1. Whose picture does Ponyboy see in the yearbook?

2. Which Soc visits Ponyboy in the hospital?

3. After the Rumble and Johnny's death, what is Ponyboy still scared about?

4. What big lie does Ponyboy tell about Johnny?

5. What do his brothers yell at him for doing in the hospital?

"LOVE'S VOCABULARY" BY DIANE ACKERMAN

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

In Diane Ackerman's article, she says, "We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything.

OPTION 1: HOW DOES LOVE IN THE OUTSIDERS FIT THIS QUOTE?

OPTION 2: WHEN DOES LOVE MEAN ALMOST NOTHING IN YOUR OWN LIFE?  WHEN DOES LOVE MEAN ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING IN YOUR OWN LIFE?

 

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      Please review and sign you child's homework daily. 

      Ms. Tyler

PONYBOY IN THE AFTERMATH

11/20/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Answer questions 1 and 2

     Level 2: Answer questions 1, 2 and 3 
     Level 3: Answer all 5 questions

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1.What is Dally’s one worry about the Rumble?

2.What kind of weapons do they actually use in the Rumble?

3.Who shows up at the last second, right as the first punch is thrown at the Rumble?

4.How do Ponyboy and Dally get to the hospital fast?

5.What is the last thing Johnny tells Ponyboy before he dies?

11/19/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Answer questions 1 and 2

     Level 2: Answer questions 1, 2 and 3 
     Level 3: Answer all 5 questions

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1.In the hospital, what does Johnny want Ponyboy to read to him?

2.Who does Johnny refuse to let visit him in the hospital?

3.What does Dally ask Two-Bit to give him?

4.For whom does Dally want to win the fight?

5.What does Cherry Valence say she can see from the West Side? 

11/18/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Answer questions 1 and 2

     Level 2: Answer questions 1, 2 and 3 
     Level 3: Answer all 5 questions

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. Why are the policemen laughing?

2. What does the piece of timber do?

3. What does the newspaper say about these “Juvenile Delinquents”?

4. What is Ponyboy’s nightmare about?

5. What shocking thing does Ponyboy say about Randy? 

ARE THEY HEROES OR DELINQUENTS?

11/17/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

The events of chapter 6 provide a mirror image of the events of chapter 4. In murdering Bob, Johnny and Ponyboy make themselves criminals, and by saving children from a burning building, they make themselves heroes. What is Hinton’s message? Do you believe Ponyboy and Johnny are stereotypical Greasers or are they law abiding people?  Explain your answer.

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      Please review and sign you child's homework daily. 

      Ms. Tyler

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY.....

11/16/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

  **All homework must be signed by a parent.** 

      Dear parent/guardian, 

      Please review and sign you child's homework daily. 

      Ms. Tyler

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 to day

Nothing gold can stay.

Can you think of something in your life that lost its newness and beauty? How did that make you feel? Similar to the speaker? And how does the speaker feel, anyway?

VIDEO OF PONYBOY RECITING THE POEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJ-ppxCGPk

JOHNNY KILLS A SOC TO DEFEND PONYBOY

11/13/15

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

     
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

OPTION 1: EXPLAIN WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH JOHNNY'S KILLING BOB WITH A KNIFE BECAUSE HE WAS DROWNING PONYBOY? 

OPTION 2: DESCRIBE WHAT DO YOU THINK JOHNNY AND PONYBOY SHOULD HAVE DONE AFTER THE KILLING OF BOB?  SHOULD THEY HAVE GONE TO THE POLICE OR GONE ON THE RUN?  WHY DO YOU THINK THEY WENT TO DALLY?

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      Ms. Tyler

 

EMOTIONAL INTENSITY AMONG THE GREASERS AND EMOTIONAL VOID AMONG THE SOC'S

11/12/15

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

     
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

OPTION 1: CHERRY TALKS ABOUT THE SOC'S BEING ALOOF WITH EMOTIONAL VOID AND PONYBOY THAT THE GREASERS ARE VERY INTENSELY EMOTIONAL.  HOW ACCURATE IS THIS PORTRAYAL?  DO YOU AGAREE OR DISAGREE?

OPTION 2: PONYBOY WITH JOHNNY WANTS TO RUN AWAY AFTER DARRY HITS HIM FOR BEING OUT LATE.  DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE THAT THEY SHOULD RUN AWAY?

WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU SUGGEST?

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      Ms. Tyler

AT THEDRIVE IN...NEW INSIGHTS

11/10/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

     
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

OPTION 1: In chapter one, you learned that the Socs come off as faceless and cruel, but in chapter two you meet Cherry Valance, a Soc that is sympathetic and warm. Do you believe that most of the Socs are unpleasant like the ones in chapter one or are they more like Cherry? Explain your answer.

OPTION 2: Cherry tells Ponyboy that some of the Socs have problems, too. If you have money or wealth, does that mean you don't have problems?  Explain your point of view.

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      Ms. Tyler

INCIDENT BY COUNTEE CULLEN

Dear Students,

Read the poem below and answer the following questions in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Incident

by Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore,

Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,

I saw a Baltimorean

Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,

And he was no whit bigger,

And so I smiled, but he poked out

His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”

I saw the whole of Baltimore

From May until December;

Of all the things that happened there

That’s all that I remember.

1.      What might lead a child to insult another child this way?

2.       Look at the last stanza.

          Look at the title

          What is ironic here about the title? 

Dear Students,

Read the poem below and answer the following questions in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Incident

by Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore,

Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,

I saw a Baltimorean

Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,

And he was no whit bigger,

And so I smiled, but he poked out

His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”

I saw the whole of Baltimore

From May until December;

Of all the things that happened there

That’s all that I remember.

1.      What might lead a child to insult another child this way?

2.       Look at the last stanza.

          Look at the title

          What is ironic here about the title? 

** All homework must be signed by a parent.**

      Dear parent/guardian, 

      Please review and sign you child's homework daily. 

      Ms. Tyler