KrissiLambertEnglish


 * Lesson Topic and Description:** //The Outsiders// group characters posters

**__Focus on Concepts__**

 * direct and indirect characterization
 * supporting details and evidence
 * symbolism
 * extracting meaningful quotes and citing them
 * narrator - 1st person point of view and unreliable narrator (Ponyboy)

**__Provision for Acceleration and Compression of Content__**

 * complete majority of reading at home
 * spend much more time on supplemental materials than just on the actual reading/text
 * reading related non-fiction texts
 * have discussions with big overall questions and have the discussions be student-led; teacher just offers support/guidance when necessary

**__Enrichment__**

 * students can also become the characters and behave and interact as the characters paying attention to their personalities, vocabulary, interests
 * have a Social/Greaser: Outsiders day
 * reading related non-fiction texts, clips, songs, etc

**__More Advanced Reading and Vocabulary__**
--- literature circles with one of these texts or a multitude of others!
 * The Catcher in the Rye
 * The Giver
 * The Crucible
 * wuthering heights
 * in-depth exploration of song lyrics
 * poetry lessons

**__Use of Primary Sources, Artifacts, and Real World Objects__**

 * slang from the 50's and 60's
 * pictures of life in the 50's and 60's
 * newspaper articles from the time period
 * letters from orphans
 * siblings raising siblings article
 * clips from Party of Five

**__Interdisciplinary Connections__**

 * 50's and 60's
 * art - their drawings
 * music and the depth of lyrics/songwriting
 * social studies - studying the historial setting/era

**__Includes In-Depth and Critical Analysis__**

 * in-depth character analysis/character study
 * characters' motives and purposes

**__Fosters Creative Expression__**

 * artwork
 * music
 * acting
 * taking the image they have in their heads of the characters and how they look and creating their own visual renditions

6 Questions for Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. List the character's name, age, physical description 2. Locate and describe meaningful quotes said by character and explain why quotes are meaningful. 3. 4. compare/contrast two characters from the Greasers and then compare/contrast a Greaser and a Social 5. Interpret the song lyrics of the character's theme song they selected and justify why that theme song/lyrics fit the character 6. Visualize and generate a poster that visually represents your assigned character

or ended up paralyzed in a wheelchair - think about how it would affect Ponyboy, Dally (would he still be alive), Johnny's family life, the gang and their roles in it
 * hypothesize what would have happened if Darry had never slapped Ponyboy causing Pony to run away and meet Johnny which led to the altercation in the park and so on... would the conflict betweeen Pony and Darry ever have been resolved or improved?
 * hypothesize about what would have happened if Johnny wouldn't have died
 * what evidence in the novel shows that kindness is more prevelant among the poor than the rich?