The Outsiders Extension Projects

For this extension activity you will research one of the elements S.E. Hinton incorporated into her novel, The Outsiders.

Your project must include visuals and multiple paragraphs. The number of paragraphs is dependent on the topic you choose.

You may present your findings in any format, such as an essay, brochure, presentation, model, or display.  You are only limited by your own creativity.

Be sure to discuss and explore in-depth how the element you chose to research is featured in the novel.  Include an introduction, body paragraphs and an conclusion.

Choose a research topic from the following:

• Tuff cars of the mid-60's: Corvairs, Mustangs, T-Birds and Corvettes
• Greaser icons: James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
• Music: Elvis, The Beatles and Hank Williams
• Rodeo Events
• Books: Great Expectations  by Charles Dickens: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
• Drive-in culture;  movie genres and representative examples from the golden age of the drive-in, the late 50's to the mid-60's.
• Robert Frost and his poetry

You project will be graded on the visible effort shown in your visual and on the overall quality of your essay.  All other elements of your project, depending on the project you select, will be counted towards your overall grade.  

Projects/presentations are due Friday, Feb. 17.