Write Out Loud

Students, this week we are exploring the theme of friendship and how it applies to The Outsiders.
Please listen to the lyrics in the above video.
What is the story in the song? Be specific and detailed.
Can you find an example of friendship between two characters in the story so far where a connection to this song can be made?
Pull some of the lyrics directly from this song and tell us how they relate to someone or some events in the story.

Be sure that the song title is capitalized and enclosed within quotation marks. Any lines from the song that you use for discussion must be within quotation marks.
Three quality paragraphs

(From the movie Help!)

We are working our way towards the “What’s in your iDevice?” project with out first discussion on the theme of forbidden love in The Outsiders.

Can you tell me what your definition of forbidden love is?

Students please listen carefully to the lyrics in the above videos and then answer the following:
Why might the Greasers relate to Elvis Presley and the Socs to The Beatles?
Discuss how these two songs relate to the theme of forbidden love. What is each song about?
Can you explain the theme of forbidden love to two characters in the story so far?

Four quality paragraphs, please.

Students, I’m looking for creative, well-crafted paragraphs. No more than two.

I only mean that most greasers do things like that, just like we wear our hair long and dress in blue jeans and T-shirts, or leave our shirttails out and wear leather jackets and tennis shoes or boots. I’m not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that’s just the way things are (Hinton 3).

Students, what does it mean to be an outsider?

What does it mean to be an individual?

Is it more important to be part of the “group” than to be an individual?

When you meet someone your age for the first time, what do you notice?

If someone was meeting you for the first time, what three qualities would you want them to notice?

Please reflect on all these questions in a good quality paragraph. I expect all of you to be respectful of one another’s comments.

Happy New Year, students, and welcome back to school!

From the futuristic, dystopian life in Panem in The Hunger Games, we are headed back to the simple life of the sixties for The Outsiders. In preparation for the reading of this great story, I would like to know what you know, or would like to know about the sixties.

While this story focuses on the mid-sixties, 1964-67, the sixties as a whole was a decade that brought about the most change our world has ever come to know.

When I think of the sixties, I think of the Beatles and the British invasion that followed which changed the course of music forever.

This concert was at Shea Stadium, New York 1965. Can you imagine singing to that crowd? They wore no earphones piping in the music, that technology wasn’t around yet.

And oh, just so you know, I was sitting on the roof of my aunt’s house with some friends listening to the concert. It was the best seat in the house.

What do you know about the sixties or want to know more about?

Classic Supremes

The Dave Clark 5