HSINZ.T2.TG.Outsiders. Home - Outsiders - LibGuides 220 at Barrington 220 Schools. The Outsiders - Norwalt - Outsiders - LibGuides at Rundlett Middle School. The Outsiders. The Outsiders was first published by American author S.E.
Hinton in 1967, though she wrote it in 1965. Now here's the juicy part – she, Susan Eloise Hinton, was a fifteen-year-old high school student at the time! And it gets even better. Hinton's book contract came through on the day she graduated high school (source). That has to be one of the best graduation presents ever! Because Hinton was a "tomboy," had many male friends, and saw a need for more literature for boys, she chose to focus almost entirely on male characters in The Outsiders and in her later works. The Outsiders is the story of the orphaned Curtis brothers. Hinton has won numerous awards for this and other books, including the American Library Association's Best Young Adult Books. One quick look around your school cafeteria will confirm it: people are cliquey creatures. In a way, we can see why cliques exist. The Outsiders deals with this same phenomenon. More than likely, though, that's not exactly news to you.
Ela7through12stpaul / The Outsiders Weekly Planner. STI Lesson 48 - Getting Inside The Outsiders Through Music. Rationale In order for students to understand S.E.
Hinton’s novel The Outsiders completely, they must understand the music of the time and how it relates to the novel’s main characters. In the novel, different groups of characters emerge and Hinton distinguishes these groups by associating them with musicians of the time. She realtes The Beatles to the Socs, Elvis Presley to the Greasers, and Hank Williams, Sr. to a rougher subculture of Greasers. Unfortunately, many students are not familiar enough with these early popular music artists to grasp Hinton’s use of them in her novel. Objectives Students will be able to: Recognize themes in The Outsiders and popular music.Recognize social ostracism in their own lives.Recognize different genres of popular music. Audience This lesson is designed for middle school students (seventh and eighth grade) reading S.E. Time Frame In order to promote healthy class discussion, this lesson should be completed in roughly three fifty-minute class periods.
The Outsiders Vocabulary Ch. 1-4. Academy of Discovery - Outsiders Literary Analysis. The Outsiders S. E. Hinton Study Guide, Lesson Plan & more. When Hinton published The Outsiders in 1967, she used her initials so that readers would think she was a man.
It was assumed by publishers, in that pre-young adult era, that readers would not believe that a woman could write realistically about the urban street world that Hinton’s first novel depicts. It is a sign of how far the genre has evolved since 1967 that The Outsiders seems so tame today. The novel is set in a small southwestern city (similar to Tulsa), but in some ways it could be any city in the United States, for the novel is vague and dreamy in form. There are few adults, and the world of The Outsiders is divided into wealthy “Socs” (short for “socials”) and “greasers,” the tough gang members who dress in their early-1960’s uniform of long hair, blue jeans, and T-shirts. The action in this short novel is, as in most young adult fiction, simple and straightforward and covers only a few days.
How can the characters recognize this “family of man” that they all share? S.E. Hinton.com. Untitled. The outsiders. Teaching The Outsiders - Some Novel Ideas. It was a tough day in language arts class today.
I showed "The Outsiders" today. There are so many things that make this day bittersweet each year. First of all, Patrick Swayze is no longer with us. The boys all look so young and invincible in the movie, and now one of them is dead. That's hard to take. But, I digress. As I have previously posted, I use guided inquiry as the base for all of my units of study. 1. 2. After introducing the guiding questions, we do a peer relationships opinionaire. The book can be split up easily: six sets of two chapters. Another great activity to do with this book/unit is a grid activity I've adapted from the wonderful book Speaking Volumes: How To Get Students Discussing Books and Much More by Barry Gilmore (Heinemann, 2006).
Tomorrow, we're writing six word memoirs on peer relations, using this book as our guide: Thanks to Anne at Read...Write...Talk for turning me onto this book and activity. I'll try to post some of these next week, too.