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.
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.
About SE Hinton 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