The Outsiders Chapters 8,9
Getting It Straight, pp119 – 124
The nurses wouldn’t let them see ______because he was in ______, but the doctor made an exception.
Johnny asked them to bring ______and the ______.
Pony tells Johnny he’ll be okay because they ______.
Johnny doesn’t want to ______because 16 years wasn’t long enough. There is still so much stuff he ______and so many things he______.
The nurse tells Johnny that his ______is here to see him, but Johnny ______want to see her.
She’s upset that he’d rather see those ______than his ______.
Delving In, pp119 – 124
What do you think Ponyboy means when he says that in 16 years living on the streets you learn and see all the wrong things? What sort of things do you think Johnny wishes that he had learned and seen in his 16 years?
Write at least 8 sentences.
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Getting It Straight, pp124 – 130
Dally is upset about not being able to be in the ______.
Dally asks Two-Bit for his ______and tells them they have to ______the fight tonight, for ______. Then he puts the ______away under his pillow.
Two-Bit tells Pony that Darry is probably ______with him than his ______were. He thinks the only thing keeping Darry from being a ______is the gang. Pony agrees.
______was sitting in her Corvette by the vacant lot.
In the end, Cherry won’t visit Johnny because he ______.
Pony calls Cherry a ______who isn’t ______to her own kind and not ______to the Greasers either.
Cherry tells Pony she was just trying to ______him.
Delving In, pp124 – 130
On page 126 Two-Bit tells Pony that the only thing keeping Darry from becoming a Soc is them. What do you think he means by saying this? If that’s true then do you think that the Socs and the Greasers are really that different from each other?
Write at least 8 sentences.
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The Outsiders Chapters 8.9
Getting It Straight, pp131 – 137
The ______was set for seven o’clock.
Darry, Soda and Pony always get ______up before a rumble to show the Socs they weren’t ______.
Soda likes fights because they’re like a ______.
Delving In, pp131 – 137
What do you predict will happen with the Curtis brothers? Will the court decide to put them in a boys home? Why or why not?
Write at least 8 sentences.
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Getting It Straight, pp 138-149
Soda’s girlfriend Sandy ______.
Pony wants to ______the house because somebody might come by, and its time for those ______to come check on them.
The Socs who jumped Pony and Johnny pull up, and Pony decides its their fault ______, their fault ______their fault ______.
He hated them.
Randy can’t believe that a Greaser would ______. Randy isn’t going to fight in the rumble tonight because he doesn’t think it’d do ______.
Delving In, pp 138-149
At the end of the chapter Pony says, “Socs were just guys after all. Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.” What do you think he means by it?
Write at least 8 sentences.
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