Essential Questions 1. How do perceptions lead to stereotyping and pressure to conform? 2. Why is it important to recognize that all people have common life experiences that are both positive and negative? 3. What is loyalty and rivalry? 4. What does power mean?

The Outsiders By S.E Hinton

The book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the mid-60’s What was it like in the 1960’s?

Major News Events of the 60’s 1961 – John F. Kennedy became president 1963 – Martin Luther King gave his speech “I have a dream” 1963 – President Kennedy was assassinated 1964 – 1 st year cigarette boxes had warnings on them

Major News Events of the 60’s 1964 – Civil rights bill was passed to stop racial discrimination President Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnam and Americans begin protesting the war – 1 st heart transplant was performed

Major News Events of the 60’s 1968 – Martin Luther King was assassinated 1969 – Half a million people attended Woodstock Festival; a weekend of music, love and peace – Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Music of the 1960’s In 1964, the Beatles became very popular 8wiA&feature=player_detailpage 8wiA&feature=player_detailpage

Music of the 1960’s Elvis Presley was also very popular in the 60’s 8wiA&feature=player_detailpage 8wiA&feature=player_detailpage

Cars in the 1960’s Mustang Corvaire

1960’s Vocabulary Neck Pig Psychedelic Jack Dove Far Out Groovy Heat

1960’s Fashion

Literature from the 1960’s Chapter 1 WHEN I STEPPED OUT into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman--- he looks tough and I don't--- but I guess my own looks aren't so bad. I have light- brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish they were more gray, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have. My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut. Besides, I look better with long hair. I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors. When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your shoulder. I'm different that way. I mean, my second­-oldest brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I'm not like them. And nobody in our gang digs movies and books the way I do. For a while there, I thought I was the only person in the world that did. So I loned it.

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton I wanted something to read." states S.E. Hinton. "I'd wanted to read books that showed teenagers outside of the life of, 'Mary Jane went to the prom.'. Recalling, 'The books available just didn't read true, they didn't deal with the real lives of teenagers."

S.E. Hinton Hinton began writing The Outsiders during sophomore year at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Even though The Outsiders was the first published novel, it was actually the author’s third novel, having written two previously- neither of which were published - all before the tenth grade. Hinton had been writing since the third grade, and the stories had almost completely been about cowboys and horses, including the first two unpublished novels. Hinton received a D in the Creative writing class and received news of the book’s publication on her graduation day in 1967!

S. E. Hinton Wrote three novels before graduating high school, yet received a D in ELA! Was only 16 years old when began writing what has become a classic, The Outsiders, forty five years later. S.E. Hinton used initials instead of a name to avoid being an outsider….a girl who wrote a novel about a gang of wayward adolescent boys which no one could believe could have been done in such a convincing manner!