OUTSIDERS Unit Teaching Package (by S.E. Hinton)

OUTSIDERS Unit Teaching Package (by S.E. Hinton)

NOVEL: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
LEVEL: middle school (junior high), high school (secondary)
TOTAL: 169 slides/pgs in lesson plan unit
Pacing Guide & Answer Keys

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CONTENTS:

* Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit.
* Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities in the classroom.

· Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
- answer thematic questions to get students thinking

· Plot Chart Organizer Diagram
- organize 6 parts of the plot

· Character Organizer
- analyze main characters

· Conflict Organizer
- analyze 6 types of conflict

··· Setting Organizer
- analyze 6 main settings

· Slang Used in the Novel
- discuss definitions of the slang

· Independent vs. Subordinate Clauses
- practices the difference between the 2 different types of clauses

· Sentence Structures
- practices the difference between the 4 different types of sentence structures: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex
- compelling bottle-smashing practice PowerPoint game

· 12 Comprehension Pop Quizzes
- a 5-question pop quiz per chapter (answer keys)
- The purpose of these is so students who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and students who didn’t read recently would not do well.

· Vocabulary List & Rumbles (Quizzes)
- 3 20-word exercises
- 3 quizzes (Rumbles) (keys)
- 2 versions: one with definitions & words matching and one which requires students to with the traditional match definition with the word and one which requires students to recognize the meaning of the word and how it fits in a sentence from the novel

· Poem Study - “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
- Students study poem and meaning

· Sodapop’s Cake Recipe Non-fiction Doc
- Information Document Recipe

· Drive-In Movie Theatres Non-fiction Doc
- Information Document Movie Times

· Subject & Verb Agreement PowerPoint & Worksheets
- Teaches & assesses agreement rules using lines from text

· Quickwrite Journal 10 Writing Prompts

· Movie vs. Novel Comparison
- compare & contrast movie and novel

· 3 Essay Topics & Rubrics
- 3 essay options for students to choose from (Narrative, Persuasive, Response to Literature)

Enjoy The Outsiders! And Stay Golden!