DOL—February 2, 2011
1. Get out your essay. Put it in the following
order:
Top: Final Draft
Middle: Rewrites
Bottom: On-Demand
2. Describe what an “outsider” is and write
your answers in sentence form using
parallel structure.
DOL—February 3, 2011
1. Get out your handout from yesterday
about The Outsiders.
2. What are the three main social classes?
Write your answer using parallel
structure.
Absent-mindedly
Definition: unaware of surroundings;
preoccupied
Sentence: “I absent-mindedly watched Darry
as he searched the icebox for chocolate
cake” (Hinton 97).
A’woofin’
Definition: kidding or teasing
Sentence: “’Ain’t you about to freeze to
death, Pony?’ ‘You ain’t a’woofin’,’ I said,
rubbing my bare arms between drags on
my cigarette” (Hinton 49).
Blade
Definition: short for switchblade, a type of
pocketknife
Sentence: “’Look!’ He showed me the
handkerchief, reddened as if by magic.
‘Did they pull a blade on you?’” (Hinton
10).
Bopper
Definition: rumbler, or fighter, to the Brumly
gang
Sentence: “I mean, you take a guy that calls
a rumble “bop-action,” and you can tell he
isn’t real educated” (Hinton 122).
Bum
Definition: used as an adjective to mean
wretched, worthless
Sentence: “’And even if you are mad at us,
that’s no reason to go walking the streets
with these bums’” (Hinton 41).
Crocked
Definition: drunk
Sentence: “He was pretty well crocked,
which made me apprehensive. If Dally was
drunk and in a dangerous mood…” (Hinton
54).
Dig
Definition: understand, appreciate
Sentence: “Like the way you dig sunsets,
Pony. That’s gold” (Hinton 154).
Fuzz
Definition: police
Sentence: “’How’s Sodapop? Are the fuzz
after us? Is Darry all right? Do the boys
know where we are? What…’” (Hinton 71).
Gallantly
Definition: brave
Sentence: “Two-Bit gallantly offered to walk
them home—the west side of town was
only about twenty miles away—but they
wanted to call their parents and have them
come get them” (Hinton 35).
Heater
Definition: gun
Sentence: “I didn’t know about the Brumly
boys, but I knew Shepard’s gang were
used to fighting with anything they could
get their hands on—bicycle chains,
blades, pop bottles, pieces of pipe, pool
sticks, or sometimes even heaters” (Hinton
122).
DOL—February 7, 2011
1. Write parallel sentences for who won the
Super Bowl (Green Bay Packers) and
who lost the Super Bowl (Pittsburg
Steelers).
2. What is parallel about MY number one
above?
3. NO ESSAY!!!
Icebox
Definition: refrigerator
Sentence: “I hunted through the icebox and
found some eggs” (Hinton 92).
Madras
Definition: a light, cotton fabric of various
weaves, used for shirts
Sentence: “He had on a madras shirt. I can
still see it. Blue madras” (Hinton 8).
Pickled
Definition: drunk
Sentence: “Five Socs were coming straight
at us, and from the way they were
staggering I figured they were reeling
pickled” (Hinton 50).
Reformatory
Definition: a correctional institution for
minors
Sentence: “If Johnny got caught, they’d give
him the electric chair, and if they caught
me, I’d be sent to a reformatory” (Hinton
59).
Savvy?
Definition: “Understand?”
Sentence: “…It’s just because you’re the
baby—I mean, he loves you a lot. Savvy?’”
(Hinton 19).
Snooker
Definition: a game that is a variant of pool,
played with 15 red balls (with a point value
of 1) and 6 balls of other colors (with point
values from 2-7)
Sentence: “’Gonna go play a little snooker
and hunt up a poker game…’” (Hinton 43).
Tuff
Definition: different from “tough” which
means rough; “tuff” means “cool, sharp”
Sentence: “Tough and tuff are two different
words. Tough is the same as rough; tuff
means cool, sharp—like a tuff-looking
Mustang or a tuff record. In our
neighborhood both are compliments”
(Hinton 14).
Turf
Definition: territory
Sentence: “Once we even found Tim
Shepard, leader of the Shepard gang and
far from his own turf, reading the morning
paper in the armchair” (Hinton 93).
Weed
Definition: cigarette
Sentence: “Two-Bit grinned and lit a
cigarette. ‘Anyone want a weed?’” (Hinton
29).