Description
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL The Outsiders Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 6-week novel study — pre-reading questions, characters, vocabulary, grammar, informational texts, and more. You’ll love the “print-and-go” activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (369+ pages, slides, and forms for all your print and digital teaching needs).
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don’t forget the easy-grade Google Forms!
Get your learners enjoying the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson plan journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This literature guide includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of fun activities.
Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns the lesson plan to the standards. We’ve filmed some training videos on (1) how to assemble a Novel Analysis Packet that is unique to the academic needs of your learners and (2) how to effectively use our Quickwrite writing prompts.
To make your digital experience smooth, we include instructions (w/ screenshots!) of how to download and organize your activities in Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. We’ve added easy-grade Google Forms versions of each activity that auto-corrects their responses using a suggested answer key (which you can adjust afterward or modify your answer key) and compiles grades into a spreadsheet with learners’ names and class periods to make things easier for you to grade all in one place (some types of questions aren’t able to auto-grade, though, because of the short-answer format).
TEXT: THE OUTSIDERS by S.E. Hinton
LEVEL: 7th – 9th
TOTAL: 369+ combined slides/pages/forms in novel study unit → Based off the 1988 edition [ISBN: 978-0140385724] which has the same pages as the 2006 edition [978-0142407332].
→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
→ Pacing Guide and Answer Keys included
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WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS NOVEL STUDY RESOURCE
♥ Great rigor! I loved the quick writes and all the other concepts.
♥ I’ve used this with both my 7th and 8th graders. They have absolutely loved it! Some of my reluctant readers even commented on how they can pass the quizzes. A fantastic unit that I have recommended to other teachers at my school.
♥ I am currently using this with my 8th grade students and it has been a lifesaver! I love the nonfiction documents and the vocabulary activity best. The vocabulary activity requires students to use context clues which is fantastic.
♥ This is great! I like that each activity is separate because I could rearrange them in the order the worked best for me. The activities are really fun, and I love the fact that some grammar is included! SUPER! 😀
♥ I was so excited to see this because I loved, loved, loved using your unit for The Giver. The resources are of the same high quality, that are ready to use in the classroom the next day.
♥ My students loved the vocabulary and slang terms activity! They had so much fun! Thanks!
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THE OUTSIDERS – NOVEL STUDY CONTENTS
→ Suggested timeline of how a teacher could plan out the unit book study
→ Detailed explanations of the goals of each activity and how to conduct the activities
→ Meets Common Core Standards (CCSS novel unit). Easy TEKS conversion.
→ Easy to differentiate for different learning levels: Honors, 2nd language learners, and Sped
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ BEFORE READING
★ Pre-reading Bias Intro Activity
– answer thematic questions to get learners thinking about the novel
– 24 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.1
★ Google Earth Introduction Tour Activity
– Ponyboy’s House, the Drive-in Theatre, and the playground where they get jumped . . . they even get to see some of it in 3D zoomed in to the street view. It’s rockin awesome.
– 8-location 3D tour across Oklahoma
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ DURING READING
★ Plot Chart Activity Diagram Arc Activity
– analyze the 6 parts of the plot
– 10 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Character Analyzer Activity
– analyze the main characters using novel quotes
– 17 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3
★ Conflict Graphic Analyzer – 6 Types of Conflict Activity
– analyze the 6 types of conflict
– 7 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Setting Analyzer Activity
– analyze 6 of the main settings in the story
– 4 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2
★ Slang Used in the Novel
– discuss the definitions of all the slang
– 4 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Independent vs. Subordinate Clauses
– practices the difference between the 2 different types of clauses
– practices the difference between the 4 different types of sentence structures: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex
– compelling graphics
– 62 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.1a; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.1b
★ Subject & Verb Agreement Slideshow
– Teaches agreement rules using lines from text
– Assesses agreement rules using lines from text
– 32 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L2
★ Journal Questions – Quickwrite Writing Prompts
– 1/2 writing assignments to spur much deeper conversational thinking
– 16 writing prompt slideshow – 33 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1
★ 12 Comprehension Question Pop Quizzes
– A 5 comprehension question pop quiz per chapter (suggested answer keys included) – 74 pages, slides, & Google forms
– The purpose of these is so learners who read the chapters recently would ace the quiz and learners who didn’t read recently would not show comprehension.
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2,10
★ Vocabulary List & Rumbles (aka Quizzes)
– 24 pages, slides, & Google forms
– Three 20-word digital lists & exercises
– 3 quizzes (suggested answer keys included)
– 2 versions: one with definitions & words matching and one which requires learners to with the traditional match definition with the word and one which requires students to recognize the meaning of the word and how it fits in a sentence from the novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4
★ Poem Study – “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
– 2 pages & Google slides
– Study the poem and its meaning in our novel
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
★ Sodapop’s Cake Recipe Non-fiction Doc
– Information Document Recipe
– 2 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7
★ Drive-In Movie Theatres Non-fiction Doc
– Information Document Movie Times
– 2 pages & Google slides (suggested answer key included)
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7
➡️ ➡️ ➡️ AFTER READING
★ 3 Essay Topics & Rubrics
– 3 essay options for learners to choose from (Narrative, Persuasive, Response to Literature)
– Includes essay grading rubrics
– 17 pages & Google slides
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9
– CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL.1,4,6
★ Movie vs. Novel Comparison
– compare and contrast the movie and novel
– 4 pages & Google slides group comparison
– CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7
Stay Golden!
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WHAT IS CREATED FOR DIGITAL?
★ Our Created for Digital resources take all the trusted, quality instructional tools you know and love and convert them into the digital format you need for your online learners.
Why go Digital?
··· Paperless. No printing.
··· Instant saving … students work in the file.
··· 1:1
··· Technology Proficiency
··· Easy integration w/ these Learning Management Systems (as of 9/24/2020): Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.
··· Works on Chromebooks, Android Tablets, and other devices
··· Engaged students
··· Easy group work
··· Paper trail of revisions for teacher to see
Includes:
··· Teacher Tutorial – access link and how to use this with your learners
··· Microsoft OneDrive user instructions – a step-by-step visual tutorial. This will only take minutes!
··· All slides can be used over and over again.
