Class+Novel+-+The+Outsiders



__ CHAPTER ONE: Due Date - Friday February 11, 2011 __

1) Describe Ponyboy and his relationship with the other characters. 2) Describe Sodapop and his relationship with the other characters. 3) Describe Darry and his relationship with the other characters. 4) Describe Johnny and his relationship with the other characters. 5) Describe Dallas and his relationship with the other characters. 6) Who are the socs? Who are the greasers? 7) How do Ponyboys relationships differ between Darry and Sodapop? Explain.

__ CHAPTER TWO: Due Date - Friday February 18th 2011 __

1) Who are the fuzz? 2) Who are Cherry and Marcia? 3) Why doesn't Ponyboy like referring to Sodapop as a dropout? 4) What is "a weed" slang for in 1967?

__ CHAPTER THREE: Due Date - Friday February 18th 2011 __

1) What does Cherry explain as the difference between the socs and greasers. 2) What happens when Ponyboy comes home after his curfew? 3) Why does Johnny like it better when his father is hitting him?

__ CHAPTER FOUR: Friday February 18th 2011 __ 1) What major event happens in this chapter? 2) What would your advice be to Johnny and Ponyboy if they'd come to you for help instead of Dally? Explain.

__ CHAPTER FIVE - Friday February 25th 2011 __ 1) Why does Pony have a problem with Johnny's idea to disguise themselves? 2) 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?

//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. // // - Robert Frost //

3) Why are the socs and greasers going to fight in the vacant lot? 4) Who's the spy for the greasers? Does this surprise you? Why or why not?

__ CHAPTER SIX - Friday March 4th 2011 __ 1) Why doesn't Dally want Johnny to turn himself in? 2) What "other side" of Dallas is revealed in this chapter? 3) What's your own definition of a hero? Do the three boys prove themselves to be heros, according to your own definition? Explain. 4) Why do you think Johnny wasn't scared, despite the obvious danger?

__ CHAPTER SEVEN - Friday March 4th 2011 __ 1) What condition is Johnny in after the fire? 2) Why would Two-Bit think Johnny, Dally, and Pony were heroes all along; before they saved the kids? 3) What was Bob's 'real' problem, according to Randy? 4) Why did Pony think it was better to see socs as "just guys"? What do you think he means by this?

__ CHAPTER EIGHT - Friday March 11th 2011 __

1) "We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason". What do you think Pony means, and what is the reason? 2) What does Pony mean when he says, "we could get along without anyone but Johnny'"? 3) If Darry didn't have Soda and Pony, why would he be a soc?

__ CHAPTER NINE - Friday March 11th 2011 __ 1) Why do the boys fight? Why is Pony different? 2) What is the difference between Tim Sheppard's gang and Pony's? Explain how Pony feels this difference might give his group the upper hand? 3) What do you think Johnny's last words to Pony means?

__ CHAPTER TEN - Friday March 11th 2011 __ 1) How does Pony's dreaming, or lying to himself, finally work in this chapter? 2) Why was Johnny's dying so difficult for Dally to handle?

__ CHAPTER ELEVEN - Friday March 18th __ 1) Explain why Pony whould rather have peoples hate rather than pity. 2) What do you think is going on with Ponyboy when he says, "Johnny didn't have anything to do with Bobs getting killed"?

CHAPTER TWELVE - Friday March 18th 1) Why doesn't Ponyboy feel scared when the socs approach him and he threatens them with a broken bottle? How is this dramatic change from Ponyboy we have seen up until this point? 2) What does Darry mean when he says, "you don't just stop living because you lose someone"? 3) What do we learn was so special about Johnny? 4) What does Ponyboy end up doing for his English assignment?

// Questions will be posted as we read through the novel. I do not want to post the questions for all the chapters because I do not want to spoil the ending for anyone. //