The Outsiders Chap. 1-4

On his way home from the movies, Pony

• finds Johnny beat up on the corner

• gets jumped by the Socs

• sees Dally slashing Shephard's tires

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Soda secretly tells Ponyboy that

• Dally is wanted for murder

• Darry is in poor health

• Soda plans to marry Sandy

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.1

Pony feels that Darry

• wants Soda to leave home

• longs to move to the country

• does not care for him

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Pony and Dally are shocked when Johnny

• tells Dally to leave the two soc girls alone

• asks Cherry out to the rodeo

• pulls a knife on Two-bit

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.1

On their walk home, Ponyboy and Cherry talk about...

• The rules of the greasers

• Sodapop's plans to marry Sandy

• Ponyboy's troubles with Darry, Mickey Mouse, and sunsets

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

Cherry helps Ponyboy to realize that

• the gang is doing him more harm than good

• Darry really cares for him

• not all Socs and greasers are alike

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

Dally directs the boys to Windrixville because

• It is beautiful there

• it is place where there are no greaser and no socs

• there is a hideout there

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.1

The Socs attack Ponyboy and Johnny because

• They were on the West side, out of their territory

• Dally slashed Tim Shephard's tires

• The greasers had picked up the Soc girls

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

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.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

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

• Two Bit Matthews
• Johnny
• Ponyboy
• Darry

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6