The Outsiders Activity Chart Chapters 4 and 5 Chapter
Key Event
Identify and describe in your own words, the key event in this chapter.

Stretch your thinking/exceed the standards:
Predict the consequences of the key event.
Setting
Describe In your own words where the key event is taking place.

Stretch your thinking/exceed the standards:
Use many sensory details in your response.
Advice
Pick a character and offer him/her helpful advice about the key event in this chapter.

Stretch your thinking/exceed the standards:
Use dialogue to create a conversation between you and the character in which the character responds to your advice. Use proper dialogue format.
Ch. 4

Ch. 5

Literary Vocabulary:
Identify means to indicate or single out what something is.
Describe means to give details in your own words. Who, what, where, when, why…
Key Event is the event that has the most importance and significance. The consequences from that event can be critical to what happens in the rest of the story.
Consequences are the result(s) of that event or action.
Sensory details are details that use the five senses to help the reader get a better picture of the event.
Dialogue means actual conversation between characters. Quotation marks are used and you use a new line for each new speaker.