Wow, Markus Zusak on The Outsiders

Markus Zusak is the author of The Book Thief.  His favorite book as a  fourteen year old boy was The Outsiders.  Here he is talking about it and reading a short excerpt.

The Outsiders -- an excerpt read by Markus Zusak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxgcfWLx-Ns

Preparing for Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Announcements and Reminders: 
By last time  you should have signed up for your realistic fiction book for the Second Basic 8 Book of the Month, but you may still sign up. 

Realistic Fiction -- Contemporary

Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Books about Autism and Aspergers

If you haven't turned in your First Basic 8 Book of the Month, turn that in as soon as possible (ASAP) either on Edmodo or as a hard copy. 

Library Time, as needed?

Friday, September 27, 2013

Announcements and Reminders: 
By today you should have signed up for your realistic fiction book for the Second Basic 8 Book of the Month.

Realistic Fiction -- Contemporary

Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Books about Autism and Aspergers

If you haven't turned in your First Basic 8 Book of the Month, turn that in as soon as possible (ASAP) either on Edmodo or as a hard copy. 

Receive new book order fliers.


1. Individual Reading Time
2. Book Share 

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3. About the September/October Book Project and receive handouts for it. 

Basic 8, Book #2 Assessment -- Character Cube

Character:  

How do you learn about someone new?  What evidence can we gather to learn about him or her? 

How We Learn About Character

                                _______________________

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CSI  American Fork



Now Investigating:  Conventions in Sentences Investigation 

4. Investigation by Imitation!   
Your task:
a. Label the page with today's date and copy the first sentence into your composition book:

His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age.   
                                           -- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

These are imitations of the above sentence:
Hector's room smelled of gym socks, Hot Cheetos, and lies. 
                                             -- Jeff Anderson

My car smells of Armour-All vinyl cleaner, banana peels, and teenagers.                -- Ms. Dorsey

b. Create your own sentence using a list with commas in a series by copying and filling in the blanks on this sentence.

[Write in a Place] smells of ______________, _____________, and __________________.

  or 
B8   What is a sentence?


5. The Outsiders
B5  to top of page 95, iTunes chapter 6, 17:13
B6 to   page 109  iTunes, chapter 6 , 41:11
B7 to top of page 87,  iTunes chapter 6 ,  2:55
B8 to page 96,  chapter 6,  19:31

Paragraph B7

Write a paragraph contrasting (pointing out differences) between Dallas' appearance in the book and his appearance in the movie.

Book	Both	Movie
light blonde hair blue, icy elfish face high cheekbones and a pointed chin small, sharp animal teeth lynx-link	smokes likes to get in rumbles (same personality?)	dark brown hair brown not elfish face no pointed chin teeth regular not pointed ears

Paragraph B8

Central Idea Sentence: 
It must be a sentence.
It must include the topic -- Dallas Winston's looks, movie of The Outsiders, book of The Outsiders.
It must make a statement about the topic.

Write a paragraph contrasting (pointing out 

differences) between Dallas' appearance in the book 

and his appearance in the movie.

Book	Both	Movie
hair blonde -- almost white wispy-- doesn't use grease hatred in his eyes eyes are blue -- icy elfish face pointed chin small, sharp, animal teeth lynx-like ears	basically the same personality?	dark brown  hair you don't see hatred in his eyes eyes brown not an elfish face not a pointed chin normal teeth not animal-like ears

B6 Paragraph -- Dallas

Write a paragraph contrasting (pointing out differences) between Dallas in the book and Dallas in the movie.

Book              Both            Movie 
 blonde                                 dark brown
(almost white)
blue eyes                              brown eyes
elfish face                             not elfish
pointed chin                         not pointed chin
sharp animal teeth               regular teeth
lynx-like ears                        regular, rounded ears
                         doesn't like kids
not good-looking                   cute, handsome
                         personality about the same
                          been in the cooler

   Dallas Winston's looks are very different in the movie than they are in the book.  In the movie Dallas' hair is dark brown, but in the book it is described as so blonde it is almost white.  Another difference is that in the movie he is somewhat handsome, while in the book he is not good-looking at all.   While his eyes in the movie are brown, the book says his eyes are an icy blue.  

We can see that Dallas Winston in the movie looks very different from Dallas Winston in the book The Outsiders.
             

B5 Paragraph -- Dallas

Contrast the description in the book with the way he is portrayed in the movie.

Book                               Both           Movie
hair - light blonde                              hair-- dark brown
eyes -- blue, blazing ice                    eyes -- brown
elfish face                                          regular face
like a lynx --ears                               ears -- regular
sharp animal -- teeth                         teeth -- regular
not good looking                               handsome
chin -- pointy                                     a little pointy
doesn't like hair oil                            greasy hair
                           doesn't like kids
                           same personality

      The creators of the movie The Outsiders, changed Dallas Winston's looks from the way he is described in the book.   In the movie, instead of having blonde hair, he has dark brown.  Also, in the book he has a pointy face, but in the movie he has a more handsome, regular face.  The book describes his ears as lynx-like, but the actor in the movie has rounded ears.

The movie doesn't show everything the same as the book of The Outsiders, especially Dallas Winston's looks.