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    This document provides guidance for students to contextualize the novel "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. It instructs students to brainstorm questions about the author, setting, historical background, and themes of the novel. Students are then asked to work in small groups to answer contextualizing questions and explain how the answers relate to literary elements and understanding of the novel. Finally, students will share their ideas and complete a writing assignment reflecting on how the context of the novel relates to the incomplete success of the Great Society program.

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    Contextualizing A Book - The Outsiders

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    This document provides guidance for students to contextualize the novel "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. It instructs students to brainstorm questions about the author, setting, historical background, and themes of the novel. Students are then asked to work in small groups to answer contextualizing questions and explain how the answers relate to literary elements and understanding of the novel. Finally, students will share their ideas and complete a writing assignment reflecting on how the context of the novel relates to the incomplete success of the Great Society program.

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    Contextualizing a Book

    The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton


    Foreign Languages Department
    Seventh Grade
    Contextualizing The Outsiders

    Brainstorming ideas about


    The Outsiders
    Contextualizing The Outsiders
    • After reading the Preface in the novel The
    Outsiders…
    • What questions could we ask ourselves to
    know about the novel context?
    – Copy at least 5 questions you would like to
    answer.
    Contextualizing The Outsiders
    Make at least 2 questions using the prompts.
    – The author
    • Background
    • Young Adult Books
    • Genre

    – The setting
    • The late sixties
    • East/West side New York

    – The historical background


    • United States - President – Great Society
    • Vietnam

    – Themes
    • Youth
    • Drugs, alcohol and sex
    • Frienship
    Contextualizing The Outsiders
    In small groups. Complete the following table.

    Our Question Why is this relevant? How is this related to


    How will this help me literary elements [plot,
    understand the novel? setting, characters, etc?
    Contextualizing The Outsiders
    Wrap-up
    • Share ideas with the class.
    • Writing Assignment
    Bearing in mind the context you learned about The
    Outsiders, write a response about the context of
    the novel.
    Prompt –
    The context in which the novel The Outsiders by
    S.E. Hinton reflects in some way the incomplete
    success of the Great Society.

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