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Understandings:
Critical Thinking
The students will write for five minutes on this topic: What would you do if you were 20 years old, on your way to college with a full-ride scholarship, and your life came crashing down? All of the sudden your parents are dead because of a car crash and you have to take care of your younger siblings who are still in high school. What would you do to keep the family together? How would this affect your life?
The students will share what their thoughts are with the class if they choose to do so.
Critical Reading and Reading Improvement Strategies
The students will learn how to properly take notes during class and while they are reading. It will be modeled for them on the board while we summarize chapters 1 through 2 and make logical predictions about what will happen to the characters in the following chapters.
Critical Thinking
The students will work on a Social Groups Activity during class where they will identify details; identify traits, feelings, and motives; compare and contrast; draw conclusions based on their observations; and summarize the information they gather.
Resources:
The Outsiders
Social Groups Activity--P. 13 in A Guide for Using The Outsiders in the Classroom
Assignment:
As a class project, prepare a profile of the teenage social groups in your school. Include items such as the following in your report:
What types of different social groups exist in your school?
What characteristics make up the people in each group?
for example--money, racial background, religious background, athletic ability, physical appearance, intelligence, personal habits, neighborhoods, past history...
How do people in these groups interact with other groups?
Are their fights that frequently occur among members of different groups? If so, what kind of fights are there? Where do fights occur? How are they resolved?
Does anything ever change because of a fight? What?
Are there important reasons to be a part of this social group? What are they?
Do members of the groups join willingly, or are they just placed into the group?
Are any of the groups dangerous?
Are any of the groups helpful?
The students will work on this during block period and prepare for their quiz on Friday over chapters 1-3.
Journal #2--Character Chart--Due Friday!
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Period 5 and I decided that they would write their required critical essay over an approved book that they will eventually compare with The Outsiders. Today they chose their books and they plan on finishing The Outsiders by the end of next week. They were given most of the class time to read and discuss the events of the book because they will take a quiz over chapters 1-3 this Friday.
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