1.) The Outsiders Reading Response Journal (Entry #1):
Throughout our study of S.E. Hinton's 1967 novel The Outsiders, we will post writing prompts on this blog designed to help you think deeply about the book. It is your job to keep all of your journal entries organized in your binder. We will be collecting them all at the end of our novel study.
Let's begin our journal writing tonight with the two prompts below.
- What is conformity? (Please see this link: http://www.simplypsychology.org/conformity.html). What are the costs and benefits of conformity or nonconformity to a peer group? How do we measure these costs and benefits?
- How does a person's relationship with his or her peers affect the kind of person he or she will become?
- Typewritten
- Roughly half page in length
- Demonstrating your best writing ability (no MUG errors, complete sentences, supporting details and specific examples).
This assignment should be the FIRST entry in your Reader Response Journal for The Outsiders.
