The Outsiders: Chapters 5-6 Scavenger Hunt

[Pages:2]Ms. Costadoni

Miami Arts Charter School 2012-2013

Language Arts

The Outsiders: Chapters 5-6 Scavenger Hunt

Chapter 5

1. Find a scene where Ponyboy is discussing breakfast with his brothers. Read a few lines until you get to the part where Ponyboy finds a note. What does the note say?

2. Find the line that says, "I was scared, sitting there by myself." Read on until you find the list of things Johnny brought back from the store. Write that list.

3. Why does Johnny bring peroxide back form the store? Write the quote that shows Ponyboy's reaction to what Johnny intends to do with the peroxide.

4. Find and read the description of what Johnny does to his own hair. Complete the following conversation with quotes from the book:

"It took me a long time to get that hair just the way I wanted it. And besides, this just ain't us. It's like being in a ______________ we can't get out of."

"Well, we got to get used to it," Johnny said with finality. "___________________________________."

5. Find the emotional exchange between Ponyboy and Johnny. What can't they stop doing while talking about the night before?

6. Find the passage about a favor Dally once did for Two-Bit. What was it?

7. Find the chapter break. Write how long Ponyboy estimated they were hiding out.

8. Find the line that says, "It was beautiful." Write what Ponyboy was referring to.

9. Copy the poem found in this chapter.

10. Find the line that says, "I always remembered it because I never quite got what he meant by it." Describe what Johnny says afterward. What comment does he make about Pony's family?

11. Find the phrase "Pepsi addict". Name one thing Ponyboy craves besides Pepsi. Name one thing he dislikes.

12. Find the passage where Dally shows up to check on the boys. Describe the letter he brings with him.

13. Find the passage about the boys eating at a Dairy Queen. What news does Dally bring them from back in town?

14. Look near the end of the chapter. Write the name of the gang's spy.

15. Write a summary of the events in Chapter 5.

Ms. Costadoni

Miami Arts Charter School 2012-2013

Language Arts

Chapter 6

1. Find the line that begins, "Johnny had been quietly finishing his fifth barbecue sandwich ..." Write the announcement that Johnny makes.

2. Read the exchange between Dally and Johnny. Write the quote that reveals why Dally is worried about Johnny turning himself in.

3. Find the line that begins, "There was a crowd at the front of the church ..." Describe what the boys see when they get back to the church.

4. Find the line that says, "We started it. We started it. We started it." Name what Ponyboy is referring to.

5. Read the passage that begins with "I wasn't about to go through that flaming door ..." and continue until you reach the line that says, "... I went down into a peaceful darkness." Make a prediction about what happened to Johnny and Ponyboy.

6. Read from the line, "Are you taking us to the police station?" to the line that says, "No, we're greasers." Describe what happened to the boys.

7. Find the passage where Ponyboy is told he is too young to be smoking. Who walks in to see him?

8. Write the quote that describes how Darry feels about Pony at this point in the novel.

9. Finish the quote: "I listened to his heart pounding through his T-shirt and knew everything was going to be okay now. I had _______________, but _____________. To stay."

10. Write a summary of the events in Chapter 6.

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