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The Outsiders S.E. Hinton

Ms. Samson 8th Grade Language Arts Arts and Technology Academy

   

Page numbers for chapter divisions:

Chapter 1, 1-18 Chapter 2, 19-36 Chapter 3, 37-52 Chapter 4, 53-67 Chapter 5, 68-84 Chapter 6, 85-99

Chapter 7, 100-118 Chapter 8, 119-130 Chapter 9, 131-149 Chapter 10, 150-160 Chapter 11, 161-166 Chapter 12, 167-180

The Outsiders Vocabulary

In your notebook, make a vocabulary web for each vocabulary word on the Chapters 1-2 list. Use the format below for your webs.

Vocabulary Words: Chapters 1-2 (pages 1-36)

1. acquire 2. appeal 3. conscious 4. incredulous 5. perspiration 6. rebellious 7. savvy 8. suspicious 9. sympathetic 10. unfathomable

   

Vocabulary Words: Chapters 3-6 (pages 37-99) LIST A

1. apprehensive 2. clobbered 3. conviction 4. defiance 5. elude 6. gingerly 7. pleading 8. promptly 9. stagger 10. stricken 11. sullen 12. testify

LIST B 1. aloofness 2. bewildering 3. contemptuously 4. disguise 5. doggedly 6. gallant (adjective form, not the noun) 7. imploringly 8. indignant 9. ornery 10. premonition 11. ruefully 12. smoldering

Vocabulary Words: Chapters 7-12 (pages 100-180) LIST A

1. amplifier 2. bleak 3. conformity 4. delinquent 5. delirious 6. desperate 7. editorial 8. flinch 9. gripe 10. juvenile 11. quivering 12. recurring 13. vacuum 14. vast

LIST B 1. acquitted 2. contempt 3. detached 4. discipline 5. exploit 6. faltered 7. leery 8. liable 9. manslaughter 10. ornery 11. palomino 12. stupor 13. taut 14. veer

   

Chapter 1 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. How are Greasers different from Socs? Describe each group.

2. Why is the 'gang' important to Johnny?

3. How does Ponyboy react to what Sodapop tells him about Darry?

4. Do you think Darry loves Ponyboy? Why does Darry treat Ponyboy the way he does?

5. What happened to Ponyboy on his way home from the movies?

   

Chapter 1 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. Choose one quote from this chapter that reveals something significant about one of the characters. Write the quote and what the quote reveals about the character. What does Ponyboy mean when he says, "I lie to myself all the time"? Do you ever lie to yourself? Why?

   

Chapter 2 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.  

1. Who are Cherry and Marcia? Why were they alone?

2. Why doesn't Ponyboy like referring to Sodapop as a dropout?

3. Ponyboy describes Two-Bit "grinning like a chessy cat" on page 27. What does that mean?

4. According to Two-Bit, why don’t Socs fight fair? How is this different than the Greasers?

5. What are the two Greaser rules according to Two-Bit?

6. What happened to Johnny prior to the time of this story?

7. What do you think might happen with Johnny’s knife?

   

Chapter 2 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. Why did Cherry respond differently to Pony than she did to Dally when they first met? What is a Greaser’s definition of friendship? Is your definition of friendship the same or different? Give an example of something one of your friends has done for you that proved his/her friendship.

   

Chapter 3 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. The blue Mustang is a symbol. What do you think the blue Mustang symbolizes?.

2. What does Cherry explain as the difference between the Socs and the Greasers?

3. What reason does Pony give for the separation between Greasers and Socs?

4. Why does Johnny like it better when his father is hitting him?

5. What caused Pony to "run away"?

6. At the end of the chapter, how does the author foreshadow that bad things are to come?

   

Chapter 3 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. What does Ponyboy mean on p. 39 when he says "Johnny and I understood each other without saying anything"? Why is this important to each boy?

What will happen in school on Monday? What does this show us about Cherry and Pony’s situation? What would you do if you were in Cherry’s place?

   

Chapter 4 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. What does Pony mean when he says the Socs were "reeling pickled" on page 54? How might this affect the events to come?

2. Describe the major event that happens in this chapter.

3. Put yourself if Pony’s place. How would you feel about your situation? EXPLAIN IN DETAIL.

4. Why did Johnny and Pony go to Jay's Mountain?

   

Chapter 4 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. The boys immediately turn to Dally for help after the incident with Bob. Why is he the logical choice? What would your advice be to Johnny and Ponyboy if they came to you for help? Explain.

   

Chapter 5 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. Why does Pony have a problem with Johnny's idea to disguise themselves?

2. Why does Pony realize he doesn't like Dally? Can you explain what he means by this?

3. What's a 'heater'? Why does Dally have one? What does this tell the boys about the situation at home for the Greasers?

4. Why are the Socs and the Greasers going to fight in the vacant lot? What is at stake?

5. Who's the spy for the Greasers? Does this surprise you? Why or why not?

6. What was Johnny's favorite part of Gone with the Wind? Of whom did it remind him?

   

Chapter 5 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. Examine Robert Frost's poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay. What do you think the poem is saying? How might this apply to the characters in the novel? On page 78, Johnny compares Pony and his brothers to their parents. Which one of your parents are you most like? What similarities do you share?

   

Chapter 6 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. Why doesn't Dally want Johnny to turn himself in?

2. What "other side" of Dally is revealed in this chapter?

3. What happened when Johnny, Pony and Dally returned to the church?

4. Why do you think Johnny wasn't scared, despite the obvious danger, on page 92?

5. Describe Johnny's relationship with his parents.

   

Chapter 6 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. Why do you think Johnny decided to turn himself in? What's your definition of a hero? Do any of the three boys prove themselves to be heroes, according to your definition? Explain.

   

Chapter 7 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. What do you think the relationship between Pony and Darry will be like now? Give a specific example from this chapter to show how it is changing.

2. Explain what Pony means when he says Soda "reminds me of a colt" on p. 101.

3. What condition is Johnny in after the fire?

4. Pony thinks "Maybe people are younger when they are asleep" (p.104). What does this mean?

5. What additional problem did the three brothers face after Pony's return?

6. Why would Two-Bit think Johnny, Dally, and Pony were heroes all along, even before they saved the kids?

7. What does Pony mean when he thought it was better to see Socs as "just guys" on page 118?

   

Chapter 7 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. What was Bob's 'real' problem, according to Randy (p.116)? Do you think this was the real reason behind his actions? Why would being crippled be worse for Johnny than someone else? How would you feel if you woke up from a traumatic experience and you were in Johnny’s condition?

   

Chapter 8 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. How does the doctor’s statement on page 119 foreshadow Johnny's condition?

2. Describe Johnny’s attitude towards death.

3. When Johnny's mother came to visit him at the hospital, what was Johnny's reaction?

4. What does Two-Bit mean on p. 123 when he says, "We could get along without anyone but Johnny"?

5. What does Dally ask Two-Bit for? What do you think he will do with it?

6. If Darry didn't have Soda and Pony, why would he be a Soc?

   

Chapter 8 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions.

What do you think Pony means when he thinks, "We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason" (p.121)?

Put yourself in Johnny's place. If you knew that you were going to die in the near future, how would you feel? What would you want to do with the time you had left?

   

Chapter 9 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. What is the difference between Tim Sheppard's gang and Ponyboy's? Explain how Pony feels this difference might give his group the upper hand?

2. What are the rules of the rumble? (pp. 140-142).

3. Briefly describe the different boys' reasons for fighting. (Darry, Steve, Soda and Two-Bit)

4. Why does Darry hate Paul Holden so much?

5. What advice did Dally give to Pony on the way to the hospital after the rumble?

   

Chapter 9 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. Even though Pony does not want to be a greaser and does not like many of the things that greasers do, the rumble allows him to be proud to be a greaser. Explain this contradiction. What were Johnny's last words to Ponyboy? What do you think they mean? What does he want for Pony? If you could leave your friends with one piece of advice, what would it be?

   

Chapter 10 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. Why was Johnny's dying so difficult for Dally to handle?

2. What happened to Dally? Why do you think he wanted this fate?

3. Of what did Pony try to convince himself on the way home from the hospital?

4. What did Pony decide was the reason Dally couldn't take Johnny's death?

5. Why did Pony think he was in Windrixville while he was delirious? Chapter 11 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. Explain why Pony might rather have anyone's hate than their pity (p.162).

   

2. What do you think is going on with Ponyboy when he says, "Johnny didn't have anything to do with Bob's getting killed" (p.166)?

Chapter 12 Quick Check Questions: Use formal response for all answers. Include page numbers to show where you found your answers.

1. Why doesn't Ponyboy feel scared when the Socs approach him and he threatens them with a broken bottle (p.170-171)? How is this a different from the Ponyboy we have seen up until this point?

2. What do we learn was so special about Johnny (p.178)?

3. What does Ponyboy end up doing for his English assignment? Why does he write this? What is he trying to show?

4. What was the result of the court hearing?

5. How do we know Ponyboy will be all right?

   

Chapters 10-12 Extended Response Questions: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) in response to each of the following two questions. In your opinion, what was the most important point in Johnny's note to Ponyboy? Do you think that different groups of people are treated differently at ATA? If so, how? If not, why do you think they aren’t treated differently?