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. 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. Materials The lyrics and recordings of selected recordings; copies of S.E. Background For this lesson to be most effective, students should have read nearly half of the novel. Procedures “Heartbreak Hotel”: Discuss this song using the modified Rock Window. Evaluation In small groups, students are to select three modern songs. Selected Recordings Enrichment/Additional Resources Contributed by I MUSIC a.
Are these the biggest moments in journalism-blogging history? | Online ... Here’s another one for that book I’m working on – I’m trying to think: what have been the most significant events in the history of journalism blogging? Here’s what I have so far (thanks Mark Jones and Nigel Barlow): 1998: The Drudge Report breaks the Monica Lewinsky story. What have I missed? This is a horribly Anglo-American list, too, so I’d particularly welcome similar moments from other countries. Like this: Like Loading... 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. 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. This year, I'm trying something new for the final project for this unit.
What If Romeo And Juliet Were On Facebook? In case you’ve never really understood Shakespearian verse, you can revisit the classic story of Romeo and Juliet as told through Facebook. All it takes are some friend requests, relationship status updates, events, and groups to tell this tragic tale in full. Trace the whole drama of the Montagues and Capulets from Romeo ending his relationship with Rosaline (she comments “I effin h8 u”), to Tybalt and Mercutio’s event entitled “Duel,” and finally to the creation of the groups “RIP Romeo” and “RIP Juliet.” This is better than CliffsNotes. About SE Hinton
Small Town Sinners | Melissa Walker Does falling in love mean falling out of faith? “Lacey Anne Byer is a perennial good girl and lifelong member of the House of Enlightenment, the Evangelical church in her small town. With her driver’s license in hand and the chance to try out for a lead role in Hell House, her church’s annual haunted house of sin, Lacey’s junior year is looking promising. But when a cute new stranger comes to town, something begins to stir inside her. Ty Davis doesn’t know the sweet, shy Lacey Anne Byer everyone else does. With Ty, Lacey could reinvent herself. Read an excerpt. A few reviews: “Walker has written a credible and tender evocation of the moment when a young person’s beliefs begin to emerge and potentially diverge from the teachings of a family’s religion… Near the end, Lacey contemplates a verse from the prophet Isaiah: ‘Come now and let us reason together.’ Did you like this?
American Cultural History - 1960 - 1969 The purpose of this web and library guide is to help the user gain a broad understanding and appreciation for the culture and history of the 1960s. In a very small way, this is a bibliographic essay. While there is no way we can link to everything, we have attempted to find areas of special interest and to select information that we hold dear today - movies we watch, songs we sing, events that move us, people we admire. To see the whole picture, we encourage users to browse all the way through this page and then visit the suggested links for more information on the decade. We feel the best way to immerse oneself in a topic is to use both Internet and the library. Architecture in the sixties was undergoing a refinement of Modernism and a move to an even more streamlined contemporary look. As in the fifties, art in America of the sixties was influenced by the desire to move into the modern age or future which the space age seemed to forecast. Books that define the time: Books about books:
The Outsiders Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources | S. E. Hinton Teaching The Outsiders The Outsiders lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Inside you'll find 30 Daily Lessons, 20 Fun Activities, 180 Multiple Choice Questions, 60 Short Essay Questions, 20 Essay Questions, Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more. The lesson and activities will help students gain an intimate understanding of the text, while the tests and quizzes will help you evaluate how well the students have grasped the material. View a free sample Target Grade: 7th-12th (Middle School and High School) Length of Lesson Plan: Approximately 114 pages. Browse The Outsiders Lesson Plan: Full Lesson Plan Overview Completely Customizable! The Outsiders lesson plan is downloadable in PDF and Word. Lesson Plan Calendars The Lesson Plan Calendars provide daily suggestions about what to teach. Chapter Abstracts Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter of The Outsiders. Character and Object Descriptions Tests