The Outsiders

PDF of The Outsiders here

After reading the Outsiders, we will be completing a series of reading and writing activities.

Reading- these are to be found here

You will complete all of the reading activities- check them off as you complete them. Do these in pairs but record the answers in your books. Don’t write on the shared sheets please!

    • Healing Brick City: A Newark Doctor Returns Home

    • If

    • On Revenge

    • What love isn’t

    • Nothing Gold Can Stay

    • We Real Cool

    • Self-Concept

    • Herd Behaviour

Writing

You must choose at least 3 activities to complete from the list below:

    • Your own poem using words from one page of the outsiders

    • A newspaper article reporting on the rumble in the end of the book

    • A first person narrative from the perspective of Cherry Valance describing a scene in the book that she experiences

    • A short dramatic script based on one of the scenes in the novel

    • A graphic novel page layout of one of the scenes in the novel

    • A review of the book, including details and supporting evidence

    • A eulogy for Johnny’s funeral written by Ponyboy

    • A short sequel to the novel

    • An opinion piece based on the following topic- ‘gangs are a menace to society’

Check out the interview from 2017 with the author of the novel, S.E.Hinton.

Here's the essay frame for our Y10 assessment

Here's the marking schedule