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Take your students on an unforgettable adventure with Ponyboy, Johnny, Dally, and the rest of the Greasers with this ready-to-use novel unit plan for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.
You want ready-to-use materials that require no prep but still engage your students in rigorous, standards-based content, and highly engaging creative activities.
You are a middle or high school English language arts teacher who will be teaching this novel.
who this unit plan is for.
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SO, WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE UNIT PLAN?
1. INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION
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The slideshow will hook students into reading the novel immediately, spark discussion, and provide students with useful information and practical context to prepare them to read.
It includes group discussion questions, an interactive class activity, an examining the cover and making predictions activity, author biographical information, a quick-check quiz, relevant background information on the novel, historical context, and 1960s slang used in the novel.
2. Chapter Summary Cards
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These 12 summary cards (one for each chapter of the novel) outline the most important elements of the plot. Simply print and cut, and you have a resource available that can be used by any student in the class.
• Use it as a teacher and student reference to locate events more quickly.
• Find quotations for an essay more easily.
• Help your struggling readers by letting them read the summary before reading.
• Use it for students to check their understanding of the novel.
3. READING QUIZZES
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These quizzes work well for a quick reading comprehension check after each chapter set. Each quiz includes six multiple-choice questions and two important quotes which show plot or character development. Students explain what was occurring at this particular part of the plot and what characters were involved.
This resource also includes a detailed answer key, which makes for quick and easy grading or class review.
4. VIDEO JOURNAL PROMPTS
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For each chapter set, students watch a short video clip that connects to a theme or an important topic of the novel. This allows students to make connections and consider how the content or themes from the novel connect to the world today.
After watching the short video clip, students will be given a writing prompt that bridges the gap between the video and their lives or the world around them. They will respond to that prompt in writing on the included response sheet.
5. VOCABULARY
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This resource was designed to give students the tools and practice they need to determine the meaning of new vocabulary words in context. They will examine quotes from the novel that include challenging words, use strategies to decode what they think the definition is, and check to see if their definition is correct. There is a ready-to-use student vocabulary booklet, a slideshow to teach students how to determine the meaning of words in context, and a slideshow to review the actual definitions with the class.
6. READING QUESTIONS
Help your students examine the text more closely with these reading questions. The questions were specifically designed for comprehension and analysis. The questions are divided into sections (comprehension, digging deeper, and literary terms). Included is a student handout with all the chapter questions and presentation slides that include all the answers to the questions for easy review with the whole class. The answer keys are detailed with text evidence and quotes for support to show students a strong response.
7. ANALYSIS NOTES
Help your students understand the most important literary elements of the novel with this 24-slide analysis notes presentation. The slides were specifically created to discuss some of the most important aspects of the novel, spark discussion, or help students explore elements beyond the literal text. The notes are organized by chapter sets and address important story elements, literary devices, and important ideas in the novel, like characterization, theme, conflict, and symbolism.
8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom
After reading chapters 1-2 of The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, students will participate in an interactive activity that will help them examine their own identity, choose a group that they identify with, and consider what stereotypes or misconceptions exist about their group. This activity for The Outsiders is designed to help students empathize with the characters in the novel and examine the complexities of the theme of identity in the novel.
The Outsiders Examining the Theme of Identity Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
After reading chapters 3-4 of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, students will participate in an interactive activity that will help them examine their own stereotypes and stereotypes made in the novel. This activity for The Outsiders is designed to help students empathize with the characters in the novel and examine the complexities of the theme of stereotyping in the novel.
The Outsiders Examining the Theme of Stereotyping Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
In chapter 5 of The Outsiders, Ponyboy recites the Robert Frost poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” Use this class activity to engage your students in examining and analyzing the poem. Included is a presentation, poster, brainstorming page, and poetry analysis activity.
Nothing Gold Can Stay Poetry Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Ponyboy tells the reader about being interviewed by reporters
while in the hospital visiting Johnny and Dally. Not much detail is provided on who is interviewed
and what questions are asked, but the reader gets more insight into this in chapter 8. Students will write a transcript of the interview Ponyboy gives to the reporters based on the newspaper article from the novel!
The Outsiders Interview Assignment
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Use this class activity for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton to engage your students in exploring the similarities and differences between the Socs and Greasers! Students will become either a Soc or a Greaser and work together to expose the similar hatred each group feels for each other. Next, they will do a comparison activity that shows that the two groups are not so different after all.
Socs vs. Greasers Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
In Chapter 1, students meet many of the main characters in the novel. Students will look for text evidence to share the characteristics, physical desriptions, personality traits, and important relationship connections of all the Greasers in Ponyboy’s gang. A detailed answer key is also provided.
The Outsiders Character Analysis
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Students will plan and write a headline article for a newspaper for the day after Bob is killed. They will incorporate text evidence and focus on the facts of the event.
Newsworthy Article Writing
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Playing on the Stay Gold quote from the novel, Students will find two quotes that they think are "golden." This means the quote is important to the theme, conflict, or characterization. They will write the quotes and explain why they are important to the novel.
The Outsiders Quote Analysis Assignment
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
After students have finished the novel, show them the film version with these intentional activities. Students will compare how the story is told in these two mediums by finding eight differences between the film and text versions. Then, they will write a movie review.
The Outsiders Movie Novel Assignments
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Use this assignment as a way for students to review the plot line of The Outsiders. The resource includes a blank student version of the plot diagram for them to fill out and a detailed teacher answer key that makes for easy review or grading.
The Outsiders Plot Diagram Assignment
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Skip the traditional character analysis with this fun alternative assignment! Have students give a Greaser two symbolic tattoos and explain their reasons with text support. Students will be required to show an understanding of symbolism as the tattoos must relate in some way to the greaser's personality or a theme that develops in the reading.
The Outsiders Tattoo a Greaser Assignment
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Students will create a “Wanted Poster” for a character from The Outsiders. They will use the graphic organizer to fill in the information before working on their final poster. They will also draw or insert a photo of the character.
The Outsiders Wanted Poster Assignment
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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15 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Outsiders to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
After students have read the novel, students can choose between the four final creative project options to respond to the novel. They can create a board game, develop an original soundtrack for the novel, record video diary entries from the perspective of a character, or rewrite a chapter from a different character's perspective.
The Outsiders Final Creative Project Options
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