MrFurnell.com Homework 11.17.15

Dear Parents/Guardians:

We are reading The Outsiders this month. Our focus will center on social divide, friendship, loyalty and brotherly love.

Please assist your child with one of the three homework options listed below.

Our lesson today focused on the following excerpt:

•I WOKE UP LATE IN the afternoon. For a second I didn't know where I was. You know how it is, when you wake up in a strange place and wonder where in the world you are, until memory comes rushing over you like a wave. I half convinced myself that I had dreamed everything that had happened the night before. I'm really home in bed, I thought. It's late and both Darry and Sodapop are up. Darry's cooking breakfast, and in a minute he and Soda will come in and drag me out of bed and wrestle me down and tickle me until I think I'll die if they don't stop. It's me and Soda's turn to do the dishes after we eat, and then we'll all go outside and play football. Johnny and Two-Bit and I will get Darry on our side, since Johnny and I are so small and Darry's the best player. It'll go like the usual weekend morning. I tried telling myself that while I lay on the cold rock floor, wrapped up in Dally's jacket and listening to the wind rushing through the trees' dry leaves outside.

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Option 1: According to the text: Ponyboy claims “For a second I didn't know where I was. You know how it is, when you wake up in a strange place and wonder where in the world you are, until memory comes rushing over you like a wave.”

Why do you think he feels this way?

Option 2: According to the text: Ponyboy was laying “on the cold rock floor"

Based on the text, why was here there?

Option 3: How is Ponyboy feeling?

MrFurnell.com Homework 11.16.15

Dear Parents/Guardians:

We are reading The Outsiders this month. Our focus will center on social divide, friendship, loyalty and brotherly love.

Please assist your child with one of the three homework options listed below.

Our lesson today focused on the following excerpt:

•The next thing I knew I was lying on the pavement beside the fountain, coughing water and gasping. I lay there weakly, breathing in air and spitting out water. The wind blasted through my soaked sweatshirt and dripping hair. My teeth chattered unceasingly and I couldn't stop them. I finally pushed myself up and leaned back against the fountain, the water running down my face. Then I saw Johnny. He was sitting next to me, one elbow on his knee, and staring straight ahead. He was a strange greenish-white, and his eyes were huger than I'd ever seen them. “I killed him," he said slowly. "I killed that boy."

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Option 1: According to the text: Ponyboy “was lying on the pavement beside the fountain, coughing water and gasping”.   Based on the text, how might Ponyboy avoided this conflict?

Option 2: According to the text: Johnny killed a Soc: “. “I killed him," he said slowly. "I killed that boy."

Based on the text, what do you think will happen to him?

Option 3: Why did Johnny kill the Soc?

MrFurnell.com Homework 11.13.15

Dear Parents/Guardians:

We are reading The Outsiders this month. Our focus will center on social divide, friendship, loyalty and brotherly love.

Please assist your child with one of the three homework options listed below.

Our lesson today focused on the following excerpt:

…I ducked and tried to run for it, but the Soc caught my arm and twisted it behind my back, and shoved my face into the fountain. I fought, but the hand at the back of my neck was strong and I had to hold my breath. I'm dying, I thought, and wondered what was happening to Johnny. I couldn't hold my breath any longer. I fought again desperately but only sucked in water. I'm drowning, I thought, they've gone too far... A red haze filled my mind and I slowly relaxed.

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Option 1: According to the text: A “Soc caught [Ponyboy’s] arm and twisted it behind [his] back, and shoved [his] face into the fountain.

Based on the text: What caused this conflict?

Option 2: According to the text: “[Ponyboy]  couldn't hold [his] breath any longer”

Based on the text, what was happneing to him?

Option 3: Why are the Socs and greasers fighting?

MrFurnell.com Homework 11.12.15

Dear Parents/Guardians:

We are reading The Outsiders this month. Our focus will center on social divide, friendship, loyalty and brotherly love.

Please assist your child with one of the three homework options listed below.

Our lesson today focused on the following excerpt:

•THE PARK WAS ABOUT two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for the little kids. The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain was going merrily. Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark, and it would have been a good hangout, but we preferred our vacant lot, and the Shepard outfit liked the alleys down by the tracks, so the park was left to lovers and little kids. Nobody was around at two-thirty in the morning, and it was a good place to relax and cool off. I couldn't have gotten much cooler without turning into a popsicle. Johnny snapped up his jeans jacket and flipped up the collar.

Option 1: According to the text: “The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain was going merrily.”   

Based on the text, why do you think Ponyboy included this detail?

Option 2: According to the text: “Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark, and it would have been a good hangout, but we preferred our vacant lot”

Based on the text: Why do you think this is the case?

Option 3: Is Ponyboy cold or warm? Please explain.