Happy Holidays!

Wishing all my students a safe and fun-filled winter break. Enjoy your time off and I will see you in '08!

This picture is my homebase, who look wonderful, before the ballroom dancing! You all did a great job, and I was so impressed with your dancing - I think you could show me a thing or two!!

The Outsiders - Chapter 10-12 Vocabulary

Chapter 10-12 Vocabulary

stupor
delirious
grasped
acquitted
desperate
bewilderdly
deny
pity
flinching
veered

Period 6 - Journal #4

Finish the following thoughts:

The best thing about being me is?
The worst thing about being me is?

Consider your two completed statements.

How do you think one of the characters from The Outsiders would have completed these statements? Explain why you believe he or she would have completed it as so.

The Outsiders Chapter 7 & 8 Vocabulary

Chapter 7 & 8 Vocabulary

mimicking
recurring
aghast
exploits
abruptly
resemblance
debating
aimlessly
ruefully
leery

The Outsiders - Chapter 1-6 Study Guide

The Outsiders - Chapter 1 - 6 Study Guide

Be familiar with the following characters:

Ponyboy

Sodapop

Darry

Johnny

Dally

Two-Bit

Steve

Cherry

Marcia

Socs

Greasers

Know:

the differences between the Greasers/Socs

- why are they separate groups?

Johnny's relationship with:

- his parents

- Dally

You will be given 5 quotes from the book where you will need to e able to describe the significance of each quote.

Understand:

- Darry's life (what we know)

- Soc's - do they have is as good as Ponyboy thinks?

- Cherry/Ponyboy - what they have in common

- Jail - the effects

- the fire

Vocabulary

- 5 words from each section (ch. 1-2, ch. 3-4, ch. 5-6)

Words will be used in a sentence from the book - you explain the definition

December 11 - Period 6 - Clique Journal - The Outsiders

Clique - "a narrow or exclusive circle or group of persons held together by common interests, views or purposes."

Responding to this definition, do cliques exist within our school? Do you yourself have an exclusive group of friends? Why do you think you have chosen to associate with those particular people? How does your friendship group influence your life?

Monday, December 10 - Homework

LA 1, 7
Wordskills WB pg's 95-110 due Thursday
Typed rough draft due tomorrow (Tuesday)
Test corrections due tomorrow

LA 4
Wordskills WB pg's 83-98 due Thursday
Typed rough draft due tomorrow (Tuesday)
Test corrections due tomorrow

Reading 3, 8
Chapter 5 & 6 Vocab.

groggy
reluctantly
imploringly
sullenly
eluded
vital
indignant
gorged
conviction
inhalation

Reading 6
Journal Entry
Who are you? What makes you unique? What factors influence who you are?