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Sociological Inquiry: The Outsiders and Popular Media
​and
Debates

Big Questions: What are some important social issues we face today? What are the different views on these issues? What are the solutions to solving the problems we face? What are the challenges to solving these issues?

Assessments:

1. Read and Analyze the Outsiders (main idea, connections, inferences, literary devices, novel text form) by answering chapter questions and participating in literature circles
2. Find a media text on an issue in society, generate discussion questions and write a statement on its importance and the effectiveness of the questions created (research, questioning, evaluation, POV, main idea)
3. Read and analyze a popular media account of an issue in society
4. Write an essay on a theme found in the Outsiders
5. Write a compare and contrast essay of different views on an issue found in the media
6. Debate a social issue
7. Create a propaganda poster/PSA on a social issue
8. Write an analysis of the poster/PSA




3. Reading Response

extreme_right_wing_in_canada.docx
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reading_response_to_extreme_right_wing.docx
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4. Critical Essays on Society



The Outsiders

outsider_chapter_questions.docx
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the_outsiders_by_s_e_hinton.pdf
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Outsider Audiobook
literature_chart_on_outsiders.pdf
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the_outsiders_culminating_project.docx
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OUTSIDER THEMES

Violence
Class
Gender
Childhood
Innocence

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​Identity

Power
Appearance vs. Reality
Empathy
Honour
Sacrifice

Posters
EXAMPLE POSTER STYLES:
http://www.posterconnection.com/history.shtml
https://www.pinterest.com/chrisdymond/poster-styles/
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=poster%20styles&rs=typed&term_meta%5B%5D=poster%7Ctyped&term_meta%5B%5D=styles%7Ctyped


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