The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Ponyboy’s parents...

• We're killed in a car accident
• Were recently divorced.
• Placed the brothers in foster care
• Abandoned the boys years earlier

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

He was the gang's pet, everyone's kid brother.

• Two Bit Matthews
• Johnny
• Ponyboy
• Darry

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Ponyboy ran away from home because

• He was hanging around with a Soc
• He didn't want to apologize for being late
• Darry slapped Soda for taking up for Ponyboy
• Darry slapped him for coming home late 

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.W.6.9A

What character dropped out of high school, says he is not very smart.

• Johnny
• Pony
• Darry
• Soda

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CCSS.RL.8.3

What happens to Pony at the park?

• he runs away
• he is almost drowned by the Socs 
• he was beat up by the Socs

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CCSS.RL.6.3

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He is unlike any of the others in his gang, in fact, he loves to watch movies by himself.

• Darry
• Pony
• Dally
• Two Bit

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CCSS.RL.7.3

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What character is a hoodlum from New York, that loves to break the law, when he can?

• Johnny
• Ponyboy
• Darry
• Dally 

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CCSS.RL.5.3

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CCSS.RL.7.3

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who says: "things are rough all over" for them too, even though they live in a separate world.

• Cherry
• Two Bi
• Johnny
• Marcia

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CCSS.RL.8.3

Pony was embarrassed when Dally started talking to the girls at the drive-in because… 

• they were not greasy girls.
• they were older girls.
• they were related to Two-Bit.
• the girls were talking dirty to him, too.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

Johnny and Pony dream of a place… 

• where they wouldn’t have to go to school.
• where they could make lots of money.
• without Greasers and Socs.
• where they could meet pretty girls.

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