1. Thursday, January 14 th Bellwork: Active/Passive Voice Practice The Outsiders – Chapter 1-4 Discussion (take notes) – “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Poem – Character Charts Homework: Catch up to Chapter 4 if you are not already there. Don’t read ahead!

2. Bellwork Copy the following sentences. Underline the verbs and identify the sentences as active or passive (see notes on board for help). Then, rewrite the passive sentence to make it active. – Since 1950, many different classes have been taught in room 303 at Auburn Junior High School. – My mother attended fifth grade in room 303 in 1967-68.

3. Outsiders Discussion Questions When parental love and approval is absent, the approval of friends may be a substitute, but never a wholly satisfactory substitute. Peer pressure from your group can force you to be someone you do not want to be. Many people do make judgments about people based on stereotypes that exist in their minds.

4. “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.