Scenario: You are a newspaper reporter for the Tulsa Times. You have been given the following assignment to report upon the ongoing conflict between the Socs and the Greasers. You have been asked by your editor to report on some of the events that have taken place– Gang rumbles leading to a murder. This assignment gives you the opportunity to creatively tell the stories of the characters and events of S. E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders.

Remember to include:
1. Your newspaper articles will follow the appropriate reporting format: addressing the who, what, where, and why of the events.
2. Your articles will include TWO fictitious interviews with characters from the novel (One Greaser and one Soc).
3. Your newspaper article will go beyond the events of the novel.
4. You will use evidence from the novel to support your opinions.

What do I write??

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.