DAILY LAYOUT
Date (6/24/14)
Title
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Write down the daily objective
Our notebooks may include vocabulary words
and definitions.
We will be doing various activities involving
reading skills.
Some days you may reflect on The Outsiders
through a journal prompt.
OUTSIDERS:
IDENTITY
October 21, 2015
6/24/14
“Chapter 1: Identity”
Journal: Based on the cover, I thought this book
was going to be incredibly boring and stupid.
After reading the first few pages, I am actually
kind of liking it. The part where Ponyboy gets
jumped and bites the Socs’ hand and blood gets in
his mouth was disgusting, but I couldn’t stop
reading!
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Chapter 1: Vocabulary
 madras
Use a line to separate activities
and keep your notebook
 cowlick
organized. Don’t skip several
 unfathomable
lines or leave empty space

on the page!
POWER WRITE: PERSONAL IDENTITY
Poweryou
would
Writing:
describe
yourself?
How
2 min
POWER WRITE: PERSONAL IDENTITY
How
would you
describe yourself?
POWER WRITE: PERSONAL IDENTITY
How
would
Power
you
describe
your group
Writing:
of friends?
2 min
POWER WRITE: PERSONAL IDENTITY
How
would you
describe your group
of friends?
IDENTITY
 the
fact of being who or
what a person or thing is.
CLASS
the
system of
ordering a society
in which people
are divided into
sets based on
perceived social or
economic status
RACE
a
category of
humankind that
shares certain
distinctive
physical traits
or a common
origin
shaggy dog
Corvair
Paul Newman
This was how
Steve Randall
held off 4 guys.
lynx
Ponyboy Curtis
On the Back
CHAPTER 1: CHARACTER IDENTITY
Johnny Cade
Sodapop Curtis
Darrel Curtis
Two-Bit Matthews
Steve Randall
Dallas Winston
CHAPTER 1: CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING
1.
Who is the narrator of The
Outsiders?
2. What two groups of teenagers does
Ponyboy describe? Compare the two
groups.
3. Why did the Socs beat up Ponyboy?
4. Why did Ponyboy have a hard time
with his oldest brother?
VOCABULARY: CHAPTER 1
Procedure:
1. Read each quote.
2. Predict the meaning
of the underlined
word based on the
sentence.
3. Cut and paste/tape
on the page 2 of
your notebook.
4. Add in definitions.
5. Succeed in life.
“It’s like the term ”greaser”, which is
used to class all us boys on the East
side. (page 2)
class: to assign to a particular
category.
 “He
had on a madras shirt. I can
still see it. Blue madras. (page 5)
madras: cotton, plaid material (for
clothing)
 “I
was smarting and aching and my
chest was sore…” (page 7)
smarting: a sharp, stinging pain
(hurting)
 “He
was always smarting off to the cops.
Everything he said was just so irresistibly
funny that he just had the police in on it
to brighten up their dull lives.” (page 10)
smarting off: showing off in a
sarcastic way, talking back
 “Sodapop
came loping back.” (page 7)
loping: to move or run with a long
bonding stride
 “I
drew a quivering breath and quit
crying.” (page 8)
quivering: to tremble or shake with a
slight rapid motion
 “Two-Bit
Matthews was the oldest of
the gang and the wisecracker of the
bunch.” (page 9)
wisecracker: someone who makes
jokes
Nice
hair.
Thanks, I
grew it
myself.
 “He
liked fights, blondes, and for
some unfathomable reason, school.”
(page 10)
unfathomable: incapable of
understanding
 “…but
here, organized gangs are
rarities - there are just small
bunches of friends who stick
together” (page 11)
rarities: things that does not occur
often
RARE
 “Nice
lookin’ bruise you got there,
kid.”
 I touched my cheek gingerly. (page
12)
gingerly: in a careful or cautious
manner
 “Me
and Darry just didn’t dig each
other. I never could please him.”
(page 13)
dig: understand
EYES CHALLENGE
greenish-gray eyes (wants gray eyes)
Two pieces of pale blue-green ice
Lively, dancing, recklessly laughing eyes
that can be gentle and sympathetic one
minutes and blazing with anger the next
Gray eyes and a wide grin
His eyes were blue, blazing ice cold with
a hatred of the whole world
EYES CHALLENGE
greenish-gray eyes (wants gray eyes)
Ponyboy
Two pieces of pale blue-green ice
Darry
Lively, dancing, recklessly laughing eyes that
can be gentle and sympathetic one minutes and
blazing with anger the next
Sodapop
Gray eyes and a wide grin
Two-Bit
His eyes were blue, blazing ice cold with a
hatred of the whole world
Dally
What does S. E. Hinton use
EYES as a symbol for?