1. Authors Purpose

2. 2 Different types of Texts
NARRATIVE
IT’S A STORY
MAIN PURPOSE TO ENTERTAIN
CHARACTERS
PLOT
SETTING
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
CLIMAX
DIALOUGE

3. EXPOSITORY MAIN PURPOSE KEY CHARACTERISTIC HEADINGS INFORM/EXPLAIN
THEY SEPARATE THE STORY INTO DIFFERENT IDEAS
USUALLY THEY GIVE THE MAIN IDEA OF THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS

4. AUTHORS PURPOSE
EXPLAIN
ENTERTAIN
PERUSADE
DESCRIBES

5. EXPLAIN THE AUTHOR TELLS WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY.
“BECAUSE” – ITS EXPLAINING SOMETHING
JOHNOTHAN WENT TO THE MALL BECAUSE HE NEEDED A NEW PAIR OF SHOES.
BECAUSE KILLER WHALES HUNT IN GROUPS LIKE WOLVES, THEY ARE CALLED “WOLVES OF THE SEA”

6. EXPLAIN EXAMPLES TEXT BOOK MANUALS (COOK BOOKS, INSTRUCTIONS)
NEWS ARTICLES
HOW-TO-BOOKS

7. ENTERTAIN
NARRATIVE -TELLING YOU A STORY -CHARACTER -SETTING -PLOT

8. ENTERTAIN EXAMPLES DR. SUESS – CHILDRENS BOOK
SCHOOLED – YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
KINGDON KEEPERS - MYSTERY

9. PERSUADE TO CHANGE YOUR MIND/OPINION
TRYING TO GET YOU TO THINK THEIR WAY

10. PERSUASIVE EXAMPLES Opinion Articles Commercials
SUBJECTIVE VS OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE = IT CHANGES FROM PERSON TO PERSON
OBJECTIVE = BASED ON FACT
Commercials
Advertisements
NEWS PAPER, COMPUTERS, BILLBOARDS, FLYERS
INFORMERCIALS, PHONE CALLS, MAGAZINES, SPORTS

11. DESCRIBE GIVES DETAILS ABOUT PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS, EVENTS
WHAT MOOSE LOOK LIKE
A MOOSE IS 7 FEET TALL AND HAS ANTLERS THAT CAN REACH 3 FEET IN HEIGHT.

12. KWL Chart: 1.Learned: Published in 1967
Hinton is a woman
Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel. 18 when it was published.
2. Girls started to get short hair cuts. Girls wore dresses.
Boys greased their hair and wore leather jackets.
Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan
3. Usually have a leader, can be very violent, have a set of beliefs that they live by.
4. Slang changes. Abbreviated ways of saying things. Usually decided by younger people.

13. THE OUTSIDERS Purpose of the text is to Entertain.
Kind of text is a Narrative
It has:
Characters
A Setting
A plot

14. CHARACTERS PONYBOY BOB SHELDON SODA POP RANDY JOHNNY STEVE RANDALL
TWO BIT
BUCK
DALLY AKA DALLAS
MICKEY MOUSE (HORSE)
SHERRY AKA CHERRY
TIM SHEPARD
DARRY AKA DARRYL
MARCIA

15. SETTING
Tulsa, Oklahoma
1960’S

16. PLOT
About different gangs that fight because they are in different social classes.

17. Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

18. Poem Break Down
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold hue = color Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. subsides = falls back down So Eden sank to grief, Eden = Adam and Eve So dawn goes down to day so = like, in the same way as
Nothing gold can stay. * How did they "sink to grief"?

19. 1) What do you think Robert Frost is trying to say
1) What do you think Robert Frost is trying to say? (Try to sum it up in a phrase or two.)
2) How does this poem apply to the events/characters of the novel so far? (What "gold" did Pony have that didn't last?)
3) Is this supposed to be a sad poem? What makes you think so/not?