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The Outsiders

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The Outsiders

This REVISED Secondary Solutions PDF/E-Guide for The Outsiders includes 118 pages of student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher guides aligned with seventh through ninth grade English / Language Arts content standards.  

This Guide includes:

  • Special articles on The Allure of Gangs, Social Cliques and Stereotyping, and Understanding and Dealing with Loss
  • Pre-Reading Preparation on author S.E. Hinton
  • Anticipation/Reaction Guide
  • Notes/Activity on Elements of the Novel
  • Allusions and Terms defined
  • Idioms and Expressions defined
  • Vocabulary List with and without Definitions
  • Note-Taking and Summarizing Chart for every chapter
  • Comprehension/Study Guide Questions
  • Assessment Preparation activities focusing specifically on: Sentence Combining, Sentence Completion, Context Clues, Denotation and Connotation, Analogies, Vocabulary Extension
  • Standards Focus activities focusing specifically on: Character Development, Analyzing Poetry (Nothing Gold Can Stay), Character Types, Bildungsroman, Plot Development and Conflict, and Theme
  • Vocabulary Review Crossword Puzzles
  • Reading Comprehension Quizzes every three chapters
  • Vocabulary Quizzes every three chapters
  • Two Final Exam versions (including one completely Multiple Choice version)
  • Teacher Guide including Sample Agenda and Notes for the Teacher
  • Novel Summary
  • Pre-Reading Activities
  • Post-Reading and Alternative Assessment Activities
  • Essay and Writing Prompts
  • Two Project Rubrics
  • Response to Literature Rubric
  • Complete Answer Key

Analyzing Poetry Sample Page

Cliques and Stereotyping Sample

Comprehension Check Sample

Theme Sample

Table of Contents

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(Use The Road Not Taken with Essay
Idea #1 on Page 101 of 
The Outsiders
Literature Guide.)

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

(Robert Frost: 1915)

 

About the Author
Susan Eloise Hinton was born on July 22, 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  A self-confessed tomboy, Hinton grew up wanting to be a cowboy or a writer.  She was an avid reader, but found the young-adult books she read rather unoriginal and unrealistic.  At age sixteen, aggravated with the social climate at her high school and frustrated with the quality of available reading materials, Hinton took pen to paper and wrote one of the most-read and loved books for young adults: The Outsiders.  This first edition, published in 1967, was an instant success, earning numerous awards.
     Hinton wrote The Outsiders under the pen name S.E. Hinton, after publishers expressed concern that a woman’s name on the book would keep boys, the target audience, from reading it.  The trick worked, and The Outsiders became an instant young-adult classic, enjoyed by boys and girls alike.

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