Wednesday, 9/20/00
Warm up: Slang Watch (copy! 5/5 = +1): a) rank =   b) heater =  c) broad =  d) "know the score" =   e) "half crocked" =
A) Finish Outsiders, Chapter Three aloud.
B) (in notebook) Outsiders Questions + Vocab Pretest. Do not copy. Four words are not used. None is used twice. Look for extra credit mistakes! (12/12= exempt, 11/12 = +2, 10/12 = +1)
  1. "The Socs were always behind a wall of _________ness, careful not to let their real selves show through."
  2. At the end of Chapter Two, Pony says, "I know better now". This is an example of ___________(ing); where the author hints that something will happen to change Pony's mind.
  3. "'And,' Two-Bit added grimly, 'A few other of the socially _______ checkered-shirt set.'"
  4. "Two-Bit __________(ly) offered to walk the girls home--the west side of town was only about twenty miles away."
  5. "'No...' Two-Bit said, ___________. 'No, Ponyboy, that ain't right...you got it wrong...'"
  6. "Mickey Mouse was a dark-gold buckskin, sassy and _________, not much more than a colt."
  7. "'Okay,' Pony said _____________(ly), 'might as well.'" He was trying to act tuff for the girls.
  8. "'Who is it?' Two-Bit asked. 'The F.B.I.?'...'No,' Cherry said ________(ly), 'it's Randy and Bob.'"
  9. Dally spat ___________(ly) as he thought of what the Socs did to Johnny.
  10. Dally is the ___________(ical) greaser; Pony is not.
  11. There is no plot or story without at least one ____________.
  12. Ponyboy tells the story, which he is a part of,  from his point of view, using the pronoun "I."  This is an example of a _________-person narrator.
gingerly, elite, gallant, contemptuous, aloof, stereotype, bleak, dumbfounded, foreshadow, nonchalant, ornery, savvy, conflict, first, third, second
Outsiders:
Quote: (Copy)
1) "We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget; some of us watch the sunset too." (p42) 
2) "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston." (p42) 
3) "I think I like it better when the old man is hitting me." (p47) 
Response:

Huh?
Huh?
HUH?
 

 4) Why can Cherry talk to Pony so easily and not to her so-called friends? In other words, what does Pony mean when he says, "She didn't have to keep her guard up with me?"
 5) What does Pony mean when he says, "I was wrong?" (p 48)

EXTRA CREDIT (+1 for every 2 correct. +3 for all 5 correct)
a) self vehicle =    b) book writing =      c) writing thing =      d) earth writing =   e) evil sound =

Done? STAR.