The Outsiders Questions
I've used these for several year. The item includes a key and 3 pages of questions, quotation identification, and matching.
Figurative Language and Quotation association
S.E. Hinton is known as a character author, but she is also very clearly a descriptive writer as well. Her use of figurative language play, particularly in The Outsiders is quite evident and thankfully so. Where students sometimes struggle with understanding the difference between simile or metaphor, the examples that proliferate the text, make them want to sort out the figurative language type in the activity below. In my classroom, I've also user this activity to team up groups - Socs and Greasers to create a little healthy competition! Students also associate the quote with the speaker in an activity linked below.
The Outsiders
Students love S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. Every year I have students, parents, staff members and family fondly remember all of the characters and many of their idiosyncrasies. It gives me so much pleasure to revisit this novel every year. I've recently updated many of my files to include Interactive activities compatible with Smart Board.
Students Sort out character traits from The Outsiders. The slides pair characters such as Ponyboy/Soda, Johnny/Twobit, Darry/Dally. There are 64 characteristics for 8 main characters. The content is largely from the first 4 chapters. In a similar activity,
"The Monkey's Paw"
Unfortunately for me, our state adopted text no longer includes W.W. Jacob's short story, "The Monkey's Paw". It's such a great classic horror story that my 8th Grade students loved. Paired with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", it was definitely a student favorite. In any case, I hope to teach it again some time and have posted a Interactive Smartboard items that go along with this story.
I always have my students talk about what makes a good story - especially when we read horror stories. What makes a story suspenseful for them? The key elements that the author uses (a mysterious stranger in a dreary setting along with several ignored warnings) make this a perfect story to delve into the author's techniques for creating this classic story.
I always have my students talk about what makes a good story - especially when we read horror stories. What makes a story suspenseful for them? The key elements that the author uses (a mysterious stranger in a dreary setting along with several ignored warnings) make this a perfect story to delve into the author's techniques for creating this classic story.
Blog Sitemap
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The sitemap does not appear on the Main Page. It appears only on a separate page of it's own. It is autoloading and shows all the posts from the blog.
Using Animoto
Using Animoto to introduce content in original ways has been something I've tried to practice. When working with students on biographies, I used this video about Oral History to show my students the depth of research.
Web 2.0 Tool Speech to Text
Click the link above to hear the text!
web 2.0 has some great tools. While looking for mobile applications to use in conjunction with classroom lessons, I came across iSpeech which can convert Websites, Blogs and documents including Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, Text, etc. to speech with any PC or Mobile Device. . Since we are at the beginning of a new school year, I decided to combine iSpeech with the Bio-Poem teaching strategy from AEA 262 website. This is a great way to incorporate other subject areas while teaching with a new tool.
In this lesson, students describe a famous person or literary character through a bio-poem. Students give responses in one word or phrases and must try to be as accurate and complete in their description as possible.
Students should try several words and phrases, revising and editing before choosing which to use. Students then post the bio-poem along with a photo on their Blog by using the Speech to Text web site:
Tall, thin, lanky, bearded,
Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, d.c.
Related to Mary Todd Lincoln
Who loved his family, freedom, his nation,
Who cared deeply about people
Who feared the break up of the American union,
Who believed that every man respected for his character and abilities
Who said, “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm”
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