Videos
S.E. Hinton Background Video
What were the various real-life inspirations for S.E. Hinton in The Outsiders? Explain your answer in detail and provide paraphrased textual evidence from the video as support.
Youth Gangs and Violence in the 1950s
Movie Trailer Summary
Using the official movie trailer for The Outsiders, compose a summary using either the BME or the SWBST strategy. You must write in complete sentences.
Before the Rumble
Compare and contrast the book scene before the rumble to that of the movie. How is the characterization similar? How is the characterization different? What conflicts are emphasized in the book versus the movie? Which depiction is more effective and why? Explain your answers with textual evidence from the book and paraphrased evidence from the movie.
Fire at the Church
The fire at the church is a climactic event that reveals the true moral fiber of many of the characters in the novel. After reading the fire at the church scene and watching the movie version of it, does the director or the author reveal Johnny and Ponyboy's character more effectively? Why? Explain you answer with textual evidence from the book and paraphrased evidence from the movie.
How does this climactic event resolve one or more of the conflicts in the novel? Explain with textual evidence from the book and paraphrased evidence from the movie.
How does this climactic event resolve one or more of the conflicts in the novel? Explain with textual evidence from the book and paraphrased evidence from the movie.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Using the novel, the video clips of Nothing Gold Can Stay and The Letter, as well as Robert Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," compare and contrast the possible meanings presented of the poem. Choose one of the interpretations of the symbolic meaning of gold and support it with textual evidence from the book and the poem along with paraphrased evidence from the movie.