The Outsiders Chapters, Questions and Projects

Some of you may need to catch up or just want to review text from time to time at home on your phone of other web-enabled device.  Below are the links to the chapters of The Outsiders. Enjoy!
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Discussion Guide pages 11-14, Questions #1-6
1. Cherry and Marcia let Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit take them home. What does this fact show
    about their attitude toward "Greasers?"
    Why does it cause trouble?
2. Why did Ponyboy come to believe that the Greasers and Socs are really very much the same?
      How does Cherry's view differ from Ponyboy's?
3. How does Ponyboy feel when Cherry tells him that she could never let herself be seen with him?
4. What similarities do you see between Ponyboy and Johnny in this section?
5. Why do you think Darry hit Ponyboy?
     How did Ponyboy react?  Why?
6. Why did Johnny say that he likes it better when his father hits him?
     Do you think Johnny's statement makes sense?  Explain.
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WHOA!! I didn't see that one coming.

Chapter Four
Discussion Guide
Page 16 - Foreshadowing

Questions from pages 16-18 (Each response should be at least three sentences long.)
1. What conflict arises in Chapter 4 for Johnny and Ponyboy? Why is it important to them not to show
    how afraid they are when the Socs show up at the park?
2. Why do you think Johnny actually Killed Bob? How was the fight at the park foreshadowed?
3. Why is it so hard for Ponyboy to believe that Dally could love anyone or anything?
4. Why do think Ponyboy told Dally not to tell his brothers where he was going?  Do you think this
    was a good decision? Why or why not?
5. What did Ponyboy mean when he said there are worse things than being a greaser?

Predictions
1. How will Ponyboy and Johnny hide? What might they learn about themselves while they are hiding?
2. Do you think the boys will get caught?  What will happen to them if they do?

Lit-related Writing -- Pick three of five to finish.

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Extra credit for those who type and email acrostics that meet specifications. Due by 11/26/13

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Chapters 3-5 Vocabulary
3. gallantly, sophisticated, aloofness, impersonally, ornery, elite, dumbfounded, bitterly, winced, passionately, cunning, resignedly, slouched

4. bluff, reeling, smoldering, desperately, unceasingly, quavered, bootlegging, lanky, apprehensive,

savage, defiance, contemptuously, self-preservation,ruefully, bewildering, sheepish, premonition

5. groggy, reluctantly, trademark, imploringly, sourly, drowsily, subsides, eluded, fiend, vital, 

darted, wistfully

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Full Text of Chapter Five


Discussion Guide

Questions
1. What did Ponyboy think about when he woke up in the church alone?
2. Why did Johnny buy Ponyboy a copy of Gone with the Wind? 
    What did this action show about Johnny?  
3. Describe Ponyboy's reaction to Johnny's plan to cut and bleach his hair? 
    Why do you think he felt so strongly about it?
4. Why did Johnny compare Dally to the Southern gentlemen the boys read about in Gone 
    with the Wind? 
    How did Ponyboy feel about Dally?
5. What happened to Johnny and Ponyboy's friendship during the time they spent in hiding?
    What common qualities did they find they shared?
6. What news did Dally bring the boys?
    How do you think the letter from Soda made Ponyboy feel? 

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Full text of Chapter Six

Discussion Guide

Questions
1. Why did Cherry want to help the Greasers, even though she was a Soc?
2. Why do you think Johnny decided to go back to the city so he and Ponyboy could turn 
     themselves in?
3. Why did Johnny insist on knowing whether his parents had asked about him? According
     to Ponyboy, how are Dally and Johnny different?
4. Why did Dally beg Johnny not to turn himself in?  What did Ponyboy realize from Dally's 
     words?
5. Why did Ponyboy and Johnny run into the burning church to rescue the children inside?
6. What did Ponyboy realize about Darry when he saw him at the hospital?


Predictions and Lit-related Writing
Predictions - Answer all three thoroughly.
Writing - Choose one of these three to amaze your audience.