Monday, November 23, 2015

HW Mr. Padilla 11-25-15


Dear parent/guardian: 
Please assist your child with today's homework. Your child should read one of the passages below and choose a task option.  

Pgs 178-179

* "I've been thinking about … that poem…he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be, I want you to tell Dally to look at one…I don’t think he’s ever really seen a sunset…There’s still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he know’s.”

** "I've been thinking about … that poem…he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn…Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be, I want you to tell Dally to look at one…I don’t think he’s ever really seen a sunset…There’s still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he know’s.”

***"I've been thinking about … that poem…he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn…Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be, I want you to tell Dally to look at on…There’s still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he know’s.”


Option 1:  Base your response on today’s reading and class discussion.
Task: We have discussed why gold is such a precious commodity. We have also discussed how love and the idea of staying gold are important themes in The Ousiders. Write a letter to a friend in which you explain how gold and love are both precious.  Remember to warn your friend about the danger of loving golld too much. 

Option 2: Base your response on today’s reading and class discussion.
Task: Make a connection between two texts (there are no wrong answers, only your best effort matters). Tip: think about what they are talking about, what is similar and different. What is the message in each text?

“Love. What a small word we use for an idea so powerful it has altered the flow of history, calmed monsters…We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything.”

 "I've been thinking about … that poem…he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn…That's gold.”

Option 3: Base your response on today’s reading and class discussion. (Write complete sentences)
Answer the following questions after reading the passage:
1.     What does Johnny say he was thinking about?
2.     What does he tell Pony “staying gold means’?
3.     What advise does  give Ponyboy?
4.     What message does he have for Dally? Why?


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