The Outsiders
The main character, and narrator, of the novel.
Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
What is the name of the main character?
Jonas
The name of the main character and author of the journal entries.
Charlie Gordon
What kind of writing did we do for this unit?
Poetry
The theme for your P.O.L. should have this many parts.
Three. Four if you count moving on to high school.
The two opposing groups of people in the novel.
Who are the Greasers and the Socs?
What assignment did Asher receive at the Ceremony of Twelve?
Assistant Director of Recreation
This story centers around a man who has experimental surgery that does what?
Triples his IQ
Give an example of a simile.
Any example that compares two things using, "like," or, "as."
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
The event that led to both Johnny Cade's heroism and eventual death
The abandoned church catching on fire.
Jonas first notices his "Capacity to See Beyond" when playing catch with this kind of fruit.
An apple
All of the text of this story is written as what?
Journal Entries
What is personification?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
"Be Cool to the Pizza Dude" and "Remembering All the Boys" are memoirs from what book that we read (before writing our own)?
This I Believe
The name of the poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny after watching a beautiful sunrise.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
In The Giver, "release" is a euphemism for what?
Killing people
This event causes Charlie to lose his temper in a diner while eating his dinner.
People bullying the cleaning boy for being mentally handicapped.
The correct term for a section of poetry. (a "poem paragraph.")
Stanza
This is the thing that none of your teachers seem to care about, but the people in charge think is the most important thing ever.
i-ready
What is both the first, and last, sentence of the novel?
"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."
The name of the failed Receiver, who was also the Giver's daughter.
Rosemary
At the beginning and end of the story, Charlie's spelling is odd. What is the term that refers to how he spells at these points in the story?
Phonetic Spelling/Phonetically
The two different kinds of poetry that we wrote for the Grammys unit.
Narrative and Social Issue
All three 8th grade ELA teacher (Mrs. Denning, Ms. Moss, and Mr. Lefler) have this kind of pet.
Cats