Freewrite:
How do you choose
your friends?
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
Have you… or would you ever…
Join a gang?
Be able to live in a household without
parents, with only your older
brothers to take care of you?
Get in a physical fight to “handle” a
problem?
Run away?
Have you… or would you ever…
Enjoy a sunrise or sunset with a
friend?
Stand up for what you think is right,
even though all those around you
don’t agree?
Write a book about your life?
The 1960s
The Beatles
Elvis Presley
More of the 1960s
MADRAS
MUSTANGS
Corvairs
Social Classes
Greasers
• poor
• like Elvis
• emotional; show
their feelings
• feel too violently
Socs
• have money
• liked the Beatles
• sophisticated and
cool without feeling
• fight coldly and
impersonally
IDENTITY
What is it?
How do you identify others?
Can you form your own identity?
Can you change your identity?
Freewrite:
Which character
thinks most like
you?
Setting
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Movie house (1)
Paul Newman (1)
Beer blast (2)
“I reckon” (3)
Mustangs and Corvairs (4)
Blades (4)
Hair grease (5)
Madras shirts (5)
English Leather shaving
lotion (5)
• “here in the Southwest” (11)
• “how about y’all” (14)
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“it only costs a quarter” (20)
Dime store (24)
Fifty-cent piece (30)
Elvis & The Beatles (37)
Ponyboy
• Gray eyes, long hair (1)
• GREASER (1)
• Loves going to movies alone
(2)
• Loves his brother Soda (2)
• Gets good grades (4)
• doesn’t use his head (4,50)
• Tried to hold back crying after
being jumped (8)
• Doesn’t like Dally, but respects
him (11)
• Thinks he can’t please Darry
(13)
• Sometimes he hates Steve (14)
• Likes Soda’s girlfriend, Sandy
(15)
• Thinks he can’t please Darry
(13)
• Sometimes he hates Steve (14)
• Likes Soda’s girlfriend, Sandy
(15)
• Looked down on by soc girls
(15)
• Greasers deserve what they get
sometimes (16)
• Thinks about the difference
between greasers/socs (17)
• “Darry doesn’t love anyone or
anything” (18)
• “I lie to myself all the time. But
I never believe me.” (18)
• “that kind of kicks just doesn’t
appeal to me (21)
• “too sweet to scare anyone”
(26)
• Doesn’t care for girls yet (31)
• Could talk to Cherry (39)
• Reads a lot (40)
• “he thinks I’m a pain in the
neck” (42)
• “it ain’t fair” (43)
• Dreams about the country (48)
• “Don’t yell at him” (50)
• Darry hits Pony (50)
Darry (Darryl)
• Works hard and long
• Didn’t have enough
hours (1)
money for college (16)
• Rough without meaning to • Getting old before his
be (6)
time (43)
• Muscular (6)
• Hits Pony (50)
• Cold eyes (7)
• Doesn’t understand
anything that is not plain
hard fact (7)
• Scolds Pony (13)
• Was captain of the
football team (16)
Soda
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Sixteen (2)
Understands everything (2)
Very handsome (7, 18)
Gets drunk on life (8)
Comforted Pony when he was
hurt (8)
Makes everyone smile (8)
Sticks up for Pony (13)
“When Darry hollers at
you…he don’t mean nothin’”
(17)
Tells Pony Darry loves him
(17)
Wants to marry Sandy (17)
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Drop out (23,43)
Comforts Johnny (33)
Mickey Mouse (39)
“I’m tired of hearin’ you
sticking up for him” (50)
Two-Bit
• rusty-colored side-burns (9)
• Always cracking jokes (10)
• Famous for shop-lifting (10)
• Couldn’t help himself from
smarting off to the cops (10)
• Liked fights and school (10)
• Eighteen
• Called Socs names (12)
• Scared them at the movies
(27)
• “he acts boozed up
sometimes” (28)
• Jokes with Marcia (28)
• “nothing wrong with
throwing a few
punches” (29)
• Understood things (30)
• Broke a bottle and pulled
out a switch (45)
• “I’m a little soused” (47)
Steve
• Soda’s best friend (4)
• Held off four guys with a
busted pop bottle (4)
• Seventeen (9)
• Stole hubcaps (9)
• Knew all about cars (9)
• Doesn’t like Pony (9)
• Points out that Pony didn’t
think (13)
• Hated his father (43)
Dallas
• Cold, hating eyes (10)
• Arrested at the age of 10 (10)
• Tougher, meaner, colder than
the rest of the gang (10)
• Only had Socs to hate (11)
• Everything BAD (11)
• In the “cooler” (12)
• Out for good behavior (12)
• Stole two packs of cigarettes
(19)
• Trying to break laws (20)
• Talked dirty at the movie to
the girls (20)
• Stole two packs of cigarettes
(19)
• Stole two packs of cigarettes
(19)
• Trying to break laws (20)
• Talked dirty at the movie to
the girls (20)
• Didn’t tell Dally Winstone
what to do (24)
• Punched a guy in a dime store
(24)
• “Dally’s ok” (26)
• Looked sick when he saw
Johnny beat up (33)
• “Dally had jumped people”
(34)
Johnny
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Sixteen (4)
Cried after being jumped (4)
Really rough home life (4)
Like a puppy who had been
kicked too many times (11)
Greased, jet-black hair (11)
Nervous, suspicious eyes (11)
Everyone’s “kid brother”- the
gang’s pet (12, 25)
Abused by his father; ignored
by his mother (12)
Only knew love from the gang
(12)
“always nervous around
strangers” (24)
• “Leave her alone Dally” (24)
• “worshipped the ground
Dallas walked on” (25)
• “too sweet to scare anyone”
(26)
• Got jumped (32, 33)
• “I got scared” (33)
• “a nervous wreck from getting
belted” (33)
• “had never been a coward”
(34)
• Most law-abinding (34)
• Carried a switchblade (34)
• “Nobody was ever going to
beat him again” (34)
Johnny….continued
• He was trembling (41)
• “you ain’t wanted at home
(42)
• “we couldn’t get along
without you (43)
• “I’ll kill myself or
something” (47)
• “gotta be someplace wtihout
greasers or Socs” (48)
Cherry
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Got mad at Dally (21)
“leave us alone” (22)
cheerleader (23)
Threw a Coke at Dally (24)
“I kind of admire him” said
about Dally (27)
“Not all of us are like that”
(34)
“We have troubles you’ve
never even heard of” (34)
“Things are rough all over”
(35)
“It’s not money, it’s
feeling” (38)
• Watches sunsets (41)
• “we couldn’t let our parents
see us with you all” (46)
• “I could fall in love with
Dallas Winston” (46)
Free write:
Who are you? What makes you
unique? (physical
characteristics, personality
traits) What factors influence
who you are? Why?
Character Activity
• Get into groups
• You will be assigned a character from The Outsiders
• You will create a poster that contains the following
information about your character:
– Physical characteristics
– Personality traits
– Relationship to other characters
– Any other relevant information about your character
– Pictures or drawings to help “show” who your character
is
Tomorrow we will share our posters with the class!
Assignment to write in your
notebook:
How is the character that you
identified similar to or different
from you? Does he/she remind
you of someone you know?
Assignment to write in your
notebook:
Application to your life
Write about a particular event
that has impacted your life and
shaped who you are.
(experience, injury, death, trial,
etc.)
Free write:
• Why do you think Johnny killed
Bob? Do you think you would
have reacted differently?
• If you were Ponyboy and Johnny,
whom would you turn to for help?
Why do you think they went to
Dally?
Figurative Language
• Figurative language is used to
make writing more interesting
and meaningful to the reader.
• A metaphor is a type of
figurative language
Metaphor
• States that one thing is another, and
makes a comparison between two
unlike things.
• “His eyes were blue, blazing
ice…”
– Dally’s eyes are being compared to ice
because he looks at people coldly and
with hate.
Metaphor examples:
1. “Her words were sugar” is a
metaphor. Her words are
being compared to sugar.
What is being said about her
words?
2. “It’s
raining cats and
dogs.” The rain is being
compared to cats and
dogs. What is being said
about the rain?
3. “He is my fortress”. To
what is “He” being
compared? What is
being said about him?
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
by Robert Frost
• Frost uses the metaphor to
communicate his message about young
people.
• He begins by writing that nature’s first
green, things such as new plants, trees,
grass, and especially young people, are
gold.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
by Robert Frost
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.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”:
Gold is a precious, and
expensive, metal. What
comparison can be made
between “nature’s first
green” and gold?
Another metaphor in
Frost’s poem is “Her early
leaf’s a flower.” Explain
how nature’s “early leaf,”
or someone’s youth, can be
like a flower.
How is the youth of
someone’s life “gold”?