The greasers and Socs, both gangs in S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, came from opposite sides of the tracks, yet seemed to live in two different worlds. Scholars answer comprehension questions, create alliterations, and work with vocabulary words as they read about how the two gangs address their differences.

Concepts

novels, responding to literature, studying literature, the outsiders

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Discuss social grouping past and present 
• Have class members write a journal entry about the cliques in their school

Classroom Considerations

• Contains only a preview of the full novel study
• Novel ncludes some content that may be controversial (language, violence, adult themes)

Pros

• Offers a self-reflection section where students think about themselves and their qualities
• Addresses both synonyms and antonyms of vocabulary words

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.4 RL.5.10