The Outsiders
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.