JMS 2021-2022 RLA WITH COLONEL DANNER
  • Letter to Parents / Photos

​The Outsiders

Photo Copyright Warner Brothers Studios
A note from the prologue, by SE Hinton:
​Dear Reader,
            It is very difficult for me to write about myself, and especially The Outsiders, which was written at a horrendous time in my life, was published by a series of mind-boggling synchronicities, and has gone further than any author dared dream.  But I’ll give it a shot.
            I wrote The Outsiders when I was sixteen years old.  Actually I began it when I was fifteen, as a short story about a boy who as beaten up on his way home from the movies.
            But I didn’t just write The Outsiders, I lived it.  Looking back, I realize how important it was to me to have another life at that time.  To be someone else. To deal with the problems I had to face, and write my way to some sort of understanding and coping.  This is all in hindsight. At the time, I was mad about the social situation in my high school. I desperately wanted something to read that dealt realistically with teen-age life.
            I  knew I was going to be a writer.  I love to write. I began in grade school, because I loved to read, and liked the idea of making stories happen the way I wanted them to.  By the time I was in high school I had been practicing for years. So I was both elated and not surprised when I received my publishing contract on the day I graduated from high school.
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            Fans.  I receive letters from every state, from dozens of foreign countries.  From twelve-year-olds and forty-year-olds. From convicts and policemen, teachers, social workers, and of course, kids.  Kids who are living like those in The Outsiders.  Kids who can’t imagine living lives like those in The Outsiders.  Kids who read all the time.  Ones who never before finished a book.
            The letters saying “I loved the book” are good, the ones that say “I never liked to read before, and now I read all them” are better, but the ones that say “The Outsiders changed my life” and “I read it fifteen years ago and I realize how much it has influenced my life choices” frankly scare me.  Who am I to change anyone’s life? I guess the best reply is “It’s the book, not the author” and “It’s the message, not the messenger.”  A lot of the time I feel that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was chosen to write it.  It’s certainly done more good than anything I could accomplish on a personal level.
            If this sounds like I am overwhelmed by the decades of incredible response to what began as a short story I started when I was fifteen years old, well, I guess that’s the truth.

Stay Gold.

S.E. Hinton


THE OUTSIDERS novel in .pdf format
THE OUTSIDERS, in Spanish .pdf
Link to YouTube Audio

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The Outsiders:
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Resources, Calendar, and Assignments

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Monday, 28 March, 2022
Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
Thursday, 31 March, 2022
Friday, 1 April, 2022
  1. Novel Launch Day 1
  2. Survey and Create a Clique
  3. Write from the perspective of a character.
  1. Novel Launch Day 2
  2. Discuss created cliques ​
  3. Read and discuss Chapter 1
  • Character Pre-Analysis for Ponyboy
  • ​Read and Discuss Chapter 2
  • Examining Group Identity in The Outsiders
  • Read Chapter 3
​​1.  Quiz on Chapters 1-2
​Monday, 4 April, 2022
Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
​Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
​Thursday, 7 April, 2022
​Friday, 8 April, 2022
  • Character Pre-Analysis on a character of your choosing
  • Setting Analysis:  How does the setting affect your character?
​Read and Discuss
Chapter 4
​1.  Quiz on Chapter 4
2.  ​Begin Character
​      Analysis Essay
​Character Analysis Essay Due
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Start Greaser Tat Extra Credit
​​Read ​​Chapter 5
​​Review Conflict 
​Extra Credit Due​

Monday, 11 April, 2022
Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
Wednesday,
13 April, 2022
Thursday, 14 April, 2022
Friday, 15 April, 2022
  • ​​Conflict in The Outsiders -- Part 1
  • Read ​​and discuss Chapter  6
Library Day - Danner
Unit 6 Retest (Optional)
​Discuss ​Chapters 5 & 6
Quiz on Chapters 5-6​
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Library Day - Bowman
Student Holiday / Teacher Planning Day
Student and Teacher Holiday


Monday, 18 April, 2022
Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
​Thursday, 21 April, 2022
​Friday, 22 April, 2022
​"​Nothing Gold
Can Stay"
Analyzing Robert
Frost’s Poem
​Read and Discuss Chapters 7 & 8
Quiz Chapters 7-8
​Read Chapter 9

Read Chapter 10
Open Book Quiz Chapters 9-10
​Read and Discuss Chapters 11-12
Monday, 25 April, 2022
Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
​Thursday, 28 April, 2022
​Friday, 29 April, 2022
​Discuss Plot and Theme
Begin Plot Diagram
​Complete Plot Diagram
Blackout Poetry
​Review for Final Test on ​The Outsiders
​Library Day
Final Test on ​The Outsiders​
Monday, 2 May, 2022
Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
Exploring Literature in Different Mediums
Exploring Literature in Different Mediums​
Exploring Literature in Different Mediums

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