Name: _________________________________________ 6B- _____ Date: _________________________________ Reading: Guided Reading for The Outsiders: Chs. 1-3 Directions: USE PENCIL. After reading Chapters 1-3, answer the following questions in complete sentences, echoing the questions in your answers. Write at least 6 lines for each answer. Highlight your quotes. *Using Google Docs, you may work in groups (of no more than THREE people from any Butler 6 English class) on this assignment, dividing the questions equally among group members, editing and revising each other’s work in the process. If you decide do this, please type your answers, writing every group member’s first and last names on your final copy of the assignment. Each group member must then bring a typed copy of the assignment to class for credit. 1. Contrast the greasers and the Socs. Use specific details from the story to illustrate their differences. 2. Assign the best possible character trait (personality adjective) to each of the following characters. Then provide a text detail, with a page number, to support your trait. Your text detail may be a simple summary of an event; it doesn’t have to be a quote. Character Trait Supporting Detail Ponyboy (Pony) Curtis (pg. _____) Darrel (Darry) Curtis (pg. _____) Sodapop (Soda) Curtis (pg. _____) Dallas (Dally) Winston (pg. _____) Cherry Valance (pg. _____) Johnny Cade (pg. _____) (over) 3. First, provide at least two specific examples of behavior that seems to fit into a stereotype; name the stereotype for each (jock, geek, princess, etc.). Second, provide at least two specific examples of behavior that seems to defy, or challenge, a stereotype. In other words, choose a character who might appear to fit into a certain stereotypical group, and then find an example of this person acting “out of character,” doing or saying something that seems to defy your expectations for this type of person. 4. Provide a strong example of foreshadowing a hint about what will happen (often negatively) later in the story. When characters explicitly state what will happen next, this is not foreshadowing: “I didn’t study; I’m probably going to fail the test.” Instead, foreshadowing occurs when readers notice subtle clues that allow them to anticipate what will happen sometime in the future: Claire spends English class doodling hearts in her notebook, each one containing her initials paired with the initials of the boy she likes; as class dismisses, Claire’s dream date rushes past her desk, trying to catch up with the girl ahead of him, who happens to be Claire’s arch enemy. In the process, he accidentally tears Claire’s drawings, breaking one of the hearts in two. Use a QUOTE to name the example of foreshadowing, and then, based on this quote, make a prediction about what will happen later in the story. 5. Cherry and Pony talk about watching sunsets. If the sun is a symbol, what might it symbolize? Why? Explain your answer using details from the text. 6. Reflecting on his own relationship with Darry and on Johnny’s relationship with Johnny’s parents, Pony complains, “It ain’t fair that we have all the rough breaks!” Following this, he explains, through narration, what he means. React to Pony’s statement and his explanation. Based on your experience in and understanding of life, is he right? Wrong? Is this a reasonable statement for Pony to make? Or, as Cherry claims at the concession stand (at the end of chapter 2), are “things rough all over”? Explain your answer with text details and / or with examples from the real world that connect to the text. 7. Before leaving with the drunken Socs, Cherry says to Pony, “…If I see you in the hall at school or someplace and don’t say hi, well, it’s not personal…” What do you think of this statement? Is Cherry being reasonable? Do you respect her choice to ignore Pony in public? Why or why not? Explain your answer. 8. Write a definition or a synonym for the following words, either in your own words or copied from a dictionary definition. If you use your own definitions or synonyms, check them in a dictionary. Asset (p. 3): ______________________________________________________________________________ Loping (p. 7): _____________________________________________________________________________ Sympathetic (p. 8): ______________________________________________________________________ (next) 2 Unfathomable (p. 10): __________________________________________________________________ Rarities (p. 11): __________________________________________________________________________ Savvy (p. 17): ____________________________________________________________________________ Roguishly (p. 22): _______________________________________________________________________ Incredulous (p. 24): _____________________________________________________________________ Stalked (p. 25): __________________________________________________________________________ Nonchalantly (p. 25): ____________________________________________________________________ Shanghaiing (p. 28): _____________________________________________________________________ Incidentally (p. 28): _____________________________________________________________________ Feud (p. 29): _____________________________________________________________________________ Stricken (p. 32): _________________________________________________________________________ Vaguely (p. 33): _________________________________________________________________________ Rebellious (p. 34): ______________________________________________________________________ Law-abiding (p. 34): ____________________________________________________________________ Digested (p. 34): ________________________________________________________________________ Reform school (p. 35): __________________________________________________________________ Gallantly (p. 37): ________________________________________________________________________ Aloofness (p. 38): _______________________________________________________________________ Practically (p. 38): ______________________________________________________________________ Bleakly (p. 41): __________________________________________________________________________ Elite (p. 41): _____________________________________________________________________________ Reeling (p. 44): __________________________________________________________________________ Pity (p. 45): ______________________________________________________________________________ Soused (p. 46): __________________________________________________________________________ (over) 3 9. What theme(s) seems to emerging from this story? Explain your interpretation of the theme(s) using specific examples from the text. Pony, from Francis Ford Coppola’s film version of The Outsiders, smoking a cigarette… 4