Choice Board – Unit 2: The Outsiders
Graduation Standard 1: Read closely to analyze and evaluate all forms of the text.
All students are expected to read chapters 1-3 from The Outsiders in order to complete the activities.
a. Cite Evidence
b. Central Ideas with Supporting Details
Use the R.A.C.E. strategy to answer one of the following
questions:
 Ponyboy compares himself to Pip, the main
character in Dickens’s Great Expectations. People
think less of Pip because he is poor. Why does
Ponyboy compare himself to Pip?
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A flashback occurs in chapter 2 about Johnny
Cade’s past. Reread the scene that begins on pg.
30. What violence has Johnny experienced at
home and during the Soc attack, and how has this
violence changed Johnny?
Pony explains that people think of Greasers as
delinquents. Define delinquent. What do the
Greasers do to make people think of them this
way? Use the word delinquent in your R.A.C.E.
response.
e. Analyze details and how they relate; characterization
 Compare and contrast the Socials and the
aracterization
Greasers in a Venn diagram.
 List character traits of looks and personality
for each character in the t-charts.
 Write a poem using the biopoem format.
 Create a WANTED poster for a character.
 Complete the character analysis graphic
organizer
**If you want to show mastery without completing above
task(s), please schedule a conference with your teacher.
Choose one part from chapters 1-3 to summarize.
You have a choice from the following as to how you
summarize:
 Paragraph – topic sentence with supporting
details
 Comic strip – at least 5 squares with dialogue
bubbles
 Poem – at least 3 stanzas
 Song – option to use app called autorap
d. Vocabulary
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Complete one of the following for 6-8 words
that you are unfamiliar with from the
chapters.
o Frayer model for each word
o Word detective organizer for each
word
o Own the Word organizer for each
word
Vocabulary words:
1. gallant
2. elite
3. gingerly
4. roguishly
5. aloof
6. rivalry
7. sympathetic
8. incredulous
9. nonchalantly
10. suspicious
11.
ELA CHOICE BOARD | Standards addressed: ELACCRI4, ELACCRL6.4, ELACCRL7, ELACCRI6, ELACCW1b, ELACCW10