The+Outsiders+-+Final+Assignment

 __The Outsiders Assignment__  __Due Friday of Week 10 or Monday of Week 11 - Term 1__

Most of this will be completed in class but you will be expected to do some of it for homework.

Please complete the questions in your reading book and the letter in your writing book. The activities do not have to be done in order.

 __Questions - Compare and contrast the movie and novel__

Answer all of these questions with full answers in your reading book.

1) There are three characters who look very different in the movie in comparison to what the book described their appearance to be. Who are these three characters, how is their appearance different when you compare the book and movie?

2) Compare and contrast the book and movie in the scene when Ponyboy meets Cherry.

3) When Ponyboy comes home and he gets into an argument with his brother. Compare and contrast this scene between the situation in the novel and the situation in the movie.

4) Do you think the movie represented the murder scene as well as the book did? Justify your answer. Define foreshadowing. Did you notice any foreshadowing?

5) How is the scene different in the movie when the boys see Dallas about running away after the murder. Where did Dallas get the cash he gave the boys in the novel?

6) Compare and contrast the novel and movie scene when Johnny and Pony escape to Windrixville. Who did they talk to on their way to the church in the novel?

7) How is the location (scene) of the church different in the novel compared to the location (scene) in the movie?

8) When Dallas takes Johnny and Ponyboy to the Dairy Queen what happens in the movie that did not happen in the novel?

9) Compare and contrast the scene when the church is on fire.

10) Are you surprised that Steve and Two Bit found chocolate cake at the Curtis house (in the movie)? Why? (Hint: In the novel Ponyboy explains this)

11) Compare and contrast the hospital scenes in the novel and movie.

12) When the rumble starts, how do Darry and Paul know each other?

13) Compare and contrast the ending of the novel and the ending of the movie. Which was more effective the novel or the movie? Why? (Be descriptive. This answer should be at lease half a page)

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">14) Identify other differences when comparing the novel to the movie?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">15) Identify five strong similarities between the novel and the movie?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">16) What did you enjoy more, the movie or the novel? Why?

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"> __POETRY__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” plays a prominent role in the story The Outsiders. Johnny and Ponyboy are both touched by a spectacular sunrise, and Frost’s words say what the boys cannot. <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__Complete these activities in an A4 booklet form.__ <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 54px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Decorate all of the pages in your booklet. Include a contents page.
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Rewrite the poem from the story on a piece of A4 paper and decorate it.
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Find and write out two other poems by Robert Frost.
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Write your own poem about a sunrise. Publish it into your booklet. __(No acrostic poems or haikus)__
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Write out four poems that appeal to you. On the back of the page write a paragraph about why you like the poems.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 54px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"> __Letter Writing (do not start your letter until we have had our letter writing lesson in class)__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 54px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Write a letter to S.E Hinton. Tell her what you liked about The Outsiders, and ask her any questions you may have about the writing of the book. Give her some suggestions for a sequel to The Outsiders.

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 54px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"> __Poster__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 54px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Outsiders is about to be remade into a new movie and you have been chosen to design the promotional poster.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 54px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Include the title and author of the book, a listing of the main characters and the actors(modern actors!) who will play them, a drawing of a scene from the book and a short synopsis of the story.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Bradley Hand ITC TT'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 54px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Complete this on A3 paper. Ask Miss Happl for the paper. This will be displayed so please make an effort with your lettering etc. Use your knowledge from the previous poster assignment.