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This Mob Mentality and "The Outsiders": Integrating Fiction and Nonfiction lesson plan also includes:
- Mob Mentality and the Outsiders (.pdf)
- Lesson Slides (.pptx)
- Magnetic Statement Mini-Posters - English (.pdf)
- Magnetic Statement Mini-Posters - English (.docx)
- Magnetic Statement Mini-Posters - Spanish (.pdf)
- Magnetic Statement Mini-Posters - Spanish (.docx)
- Magnetic Statement Summaries - English (.pdf)
- Magnetic Statement Summaries - English (.docx)
- Magnetic Statement Summaries - Spanish (.pdf)
- Magnetic Statement Summaries - Spanish (.docx)
- Students Give Into Mob Mentality - English (.pdf)
- Students Give Into Mob Mentality - English (.docx)
- Students Give Into Mob Mentality - Spanish (.pdf)
- Students Give Into Mob Mentality - Spanish (.docx)
- "The Outsiders" Character Graphic Organizer - English (.pdf)
- "The Outsiders" Character Graphic Organizer - English (.docx)
- "The Outsiders" Character Graphic Organizer - Spanish (.pdf)
- "The Outsiders" Character Graphic Organizer - Spanish (.docx)
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S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders allows middle schoolers to reflect on mob mentality. After reading an article and watching a video about herd mentality, class members find examples in the novel of when characters go along with the crowd and when they act independently. To conclude the lessons, individuals craft a reflection about a time when they were pressured by mob mentality and what they might do differently now.
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- Present the lesson after class members have completed reading The Outsiders
Classroom Considerations
- Requires copies of three handouts, as well as a projection device with internet for the slideshow and the video
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