Tuesday 4/22 ~ EQ-What do you guess the novel will be about?

 Welcome Back and Happy Easter!!!!

Today we begin a new novel called The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

Did you know that...

  • S.E. Hinton wrote this book while she was in high school about a friend of hers who was beaten up by some other teenagers who didn’t like that he was a “greaser.” 
  • S.E. Hinton was only 17 years old when the novel was published?
  • S.E. Hinton is actually a female?
  • S.E. Hinton considers “her alter ego” to be a 15 year old boy?
  • She is was born in 1950 in my home state! Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This is SE Hinton in 1968 after she wrote the Outsiders.

Discuss: Think about the ways people are separated from one another into different groups.

  1. How do groups of people form on a school campus? Name a few here at MV.
  2. How do groups of people differ from other groups of people?
  3. How can people join, or leave, certain groups?
  4. Who determines whether a teenager belongs to one group or another?
  5. Into what group do you fit in? Do you feel that might ever change?

Journal: Write a paragraph or two considering the following.



  1. What are the costs and benefits of conformity or nonconformity to a peer group?
  2. How does a person’s relationship with his/her peers affect the kind of person he/she will become?

HW: Get The Outsiders downloaded into your SUBTEXT account using this code: JKMCEUPW