The Outsiders Literature Guide--Activities and Worksheets Aligned With the Content Standards

The Outsiders

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The Literature Guide for The Outsiders contains 40* pages of student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher guides aligned with seventh through ninth grade English / Language Arts content standards. This Guide includes:

Author biography
Pre-reading activities
Vocabulary activities
Reading comprehension activities
Study-guide questions
Graphic organizers
Literary analysis
Critical thinking activities
Essay-writing activities
Extension activities
Summary of the novel
Quizzes
Unit tests
Alternative assessment
Complete answer keys
and much, much more!

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Analyzing Poetry Sample Page

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)

(Use The Road Not Taken with Essay/ Writing Ideas #4 on Page 33 of The Outsiders Literature Guide.)

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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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