Outsiders Journals

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Outsiders Journals

• You will need to keep all journal entries. I
  will take them up once every week or two.
• I will not necessarily tell you in advance when I
  am taking them up, so its in your best interest
  to keep up.
• Each entry must be at least 5-7 sentences.
• Date and number each entry.
• We will begin with Journal 1 in a moment.

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Journal 1 November 9, 2009

• What does it mean to be an outsider? What
  kinds of situations in life can make you feel
  like an outsider? Explain your answer in 5-7
  sentences.

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Journal 2 11/10

• Do you think all people deserve respect
  regardless of who they are, where they live, or
  how much money they make? Why or why not?
  Explain your answer in 5-7 sentences.

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Journal 3 -- 11/11

• INDIVIDUALITY
• What makes you unique? Be specific and detailed.
  Explain your answer in at least 5-7 sentences.

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Journal 4 11/12

• How can you keep your individuality when you
  belong to a tight group of friends? Do you lose
  part of yourself when you become part of a group?
  Explain your answers in at least 5-7 sentences.

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Journal 5 11/16

• IDENTITY
• Are you in complete control of your own identity
  or do you think that others make you who you are
  in one or more ways? Explain your answers in at
  least 5-7 sentences.

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Journal 6 11/17

• True or false Most people are not satisfied or
  happy with what they have. Explain your answer in
  at least 5-7 sentences.
• Journals 1-6 due today by end of hour!
• Please turn in ONLY Journals 1-6 and make sure
  you have put the number and date on them.

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Journal 7
Complete the Venn diagram. Put characteristics
that Ponyboy shares with the rest of the Greasers
in the center. Put characteristics he does not
share with them to the left. On the right, put
characteristics the Greasers have that Ponyboy
does not.
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Journal 8

• True or false A person is often stereotyped or
  judged because of the people he hangs out with.
• Explain why you think as you do in at least 5-7
  sentences.

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Journal 9

• True or false Sometimes it is okay to
  stereotype people. Explain why you think as you
  do in at least 5-7 sentences.
• Stereotype to make assumptions about someone
  based on positive or negative things you know or
  assume about other people like them (race,
  religion, gender, hair color, age, weight, etc.)

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Journal 10

• True or false It is normal to feel like a loner
  sometimes.
• Explain your answer in at least 5-7 sentences.

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Brainstorm

• You are about to complete an assignment that asks
  you to write creatively about one of the crimes
  that occurs in the book.
• Think of as many of the crimes that have taken
  place as you can.
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Journal 11

• What does this poem (from Ch. 5) mean? What is
  gold in this part of the story? What do you
  expect will happen next? Write a response of 5-7
  sentences.
• Poem is on pg. 77.
• Nothing Gold Can Stay
• by Robert Frost
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• Nature's first green is gold,
• Her hardest hue to hold.
• Her early leaf's a flower
• But only so an hour.
• Then leaf subsides to leaf.
• So Eden sank to grief,
• So dawn goes down to day.
• Nothing gold can stay.

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Chapter 4 and 5 Review

• Go over your given pages and be ready to
  summarize what happens for the class.
• Seats 1-6 Ch. 4 first half go over pgs. 53-60
• Seats 7-12 Ch. 4 second half go over pgs. 61-67
• Seats 1319 Ch. 5 first half go over pgs. 68-76
• Seats 20-25 Ch. 5 second half go over pgs.
  77-84

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Attention 8th hour!

• I need your Journals 7-11!
• I need your Police Report assignments!

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11/21/08

• TODAY Quiet work/reading day
• Journal 12
• Turn in Journals 7-12
• Finish Police Report assignment and turn in
• Finish reading Chapter 6
• Once you are completely finished with all these
  things, you may Prime Time Read.
• I am grading Zap work and will post new grades by
  the end of the hour. They will INCLUDE missing
  Journals 7-12 and missing Police Report
  assignments, so get those in.

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Journal 12 11/21/08

• Johnny and Ponyboy are in a pretty bad situation
  in Chapters 4 and 5. Why do you think Johnny and
  Ponyboy turned to Dally for help? Who would you
  turn to for help? Explain why you think as you do
  in at least 5-7 sentences.

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Journal 13

• What's your personal definition of a hero?  Do
  the three boys prove themselves to be heroes in
  Chapter 6, according to your definition?  Explain
  in 5-7 sentences.

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Please help me find my books!

• I am now missing THREE Outsiders books. If you
  think there is any chance you carried one off,
  please check your locker! I need every single
  book!

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Journal 14

• Do you think bad people can sometimes be heroes?
  Why or why not? Explain in 5-7 sentences.

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Journal 15 Socs vs. Greasers Venn Diagram
5 items 5 items 5 items
Complete the Venn diagram. Put characteristics
that Socs share with Greasers in the center. Put
characteristics Socs do not share with them to
the left. On the right, put characteristics the
Greasers have that Socs do not.
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Journal 16

• In The Outsiders, the media (newspapers) printed
  articles about the church fire and Ponyboys
  family, causing some people to look at them
  differently. How does the media (newspapers, TV,
  the Internet) impact your own life, your own
  identity? Explain in 5-7 sentences.

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Journal 17

• Is it all right to murder someone if you think
  you have a good reason? Is self-defense a good
  enough reason? Why or why not? Explain in 5-7
  sentences.

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Journal Entry 18 -- GIST statement

• Write this in your Bellwork, please!
• Write a 30 word GIST statement about Chapter 9.

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Journal 19 Character Analysis

• Read the following incomplete statements
• The best thing about being me is
• The worst thing about being me is
• Now choose one character and complete the
  statements as you think the character would
  complete them.
• Then explain why you think this character would
  say these things about him/herself.
• You should have AT LEAST 5 sentences on this one,
  easily.
• Journals will be due after we complete 20
  tomorrow, so if you are missing some, you might
  want to spend today getting caught up.

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Journal Entry 20
Some people say that death opens the eyes of the
living. This means that experiencing the death
of someone we know makes us see things we did not
see before. Do you agree that death opens the
eyes of the living? Why or why not? Does death
open the eyes of anyone in The Outsiders?
Explain in 5-7 sentences. Please staple
together Journals 13-20 and put them in the
basket as soon as you are finished.
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Journal ?

• What are some of the major problems that
  teenagers face today? Are these problems the
  same or different from the problems faced by the
  characters in The Outsiders? Explain in 5-7
  sentences.

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12/03/07Journal 18 -- GIST statements

• Desks 1-8 write a 30 word GIST statement about
  Chapter 7
• Desks 9-16 write a 30 word GIST statement about
  Chapter 8.
• Desks 17-25 write a 30 word GIST statement
  about Chapter 9.

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BRING PRIME TIME BOOKS!

• Read Ch. 12 or Prime Time book (grade on whether
  or not you have your PTR book)
• Expect to go to Zap if I dont have your Journals
  13-20
• Quiz over Ch. 8-12 tomorrow
• Discuss Ch. 12
• Discuss Outsiders project

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For the quiz tomorrow

• Make sure you go over chapters 8-12.
• The quiz is fifteen questions.
• Know the reasons they fight (remember when
  Ponyboy asks them?)
• Know who tells Ponyboy hes not like the other
  Greasers and shouldnt try to be.
• Refresh on the rumble and what happens to
  Ponyboy.
• Know who was around at each of the deaths in Ch.
  8-12.

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Journal

• True or false It is good to have friends you
  can count on. Explain why you think as you do in
  at least 5-7 sentences.