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We read the S.E.Hinton novel "That WasThen, This Is Now" in my 8th grade reading classes. Then we watched the movie to see the differences in intrepretation. The students were given two prompts to answer. My reading classes used the netbooks to go to my Wikispace page to complete their assignment using contrast and comparison skills.

You are to select a scene that you really liked in the novel and compare it to the movie we watched in class. If your favorite scene was not in the movie then you must select another that is included in both the novel and the movie. You will begin to list the similarities and the differences. Write a paragraph or two using details to include the items you listed showing their likeness and differences. Tell me why you liked the particular part of the novel/movie so much.

Pick another scene that you didn't like in the novel/movie and tell me why you didn't using details from their similarities or differences.

** That was Then, This is Now **
==== ** My favorite part of That Was Then, This is Now is the first time Mark and Bryon went to the hospital. I thought it was nice of them to visit their mom. In the book they rode to the hospital with a hippie named Randy and in the movie they took a bus. After they paid their mom a visit, the two boys visited Mike Chambers and listened to his story. Mike was not mentioned in the movie. Then Bryon went to the snack bar. The book said he ordered a cheeseburger. In this part of the movie he did not get food. I also like this part because it was when Bryon and Cathy met. ** ==== ==== **My least favorite part of That Was Then, This is Now is when Charlie died. I didn't like it because it was very sad. In the book, it happened in an alley. In the movie, he died in a parking lot. After the boys left the bar the two Texans they had been hustling were going to beat them up. Charlie came out with a gun and saved Mark and Bryon. Before the Texans ran away, they shot Charlie. Mark fired a gun at them but missed. The book said the two men climbed over the alley wall and the movie showed them running away. I don't like this part because I don't think Charlie deserved to die trying to help Bryon and Mark.** ====

====  I liked when Mark came home, and Bryan was sitting waiting for him to come home. Because Bryan thought that Mark was selling durgs to M&M .He told them that M&M was in the hospital overdosed on drugs.In the book Bryan called the police for Mark selling drugs. He went to jail and said he was never coming back home. In the movie Bryan was waiting for Mark to come home. He came home and Mark said that he would quit selling drugs. Than in the moive it was diffent bin the book are because. All the part diffent then th moive. Like Bryan came home and Mark was sitting there with pills. That is how moive gos but i like the moive better than the book. And i dint get to wach the hole moive because i was not at school i doint know.That is what happen for what i saw in the moive. The staf i rember some staf is when he find the pills in the house. he didnot call the cops likje it said in the book. They just got in a fight and he rind away. In the book that they said that he was never going back. In the moive he rind away and then he came back. To his house. I dint like this seen. I doint like when m&m was at the hippey house. It was a boring part of the moive when he was there it weas like who cared about that part. Bcouse all he was doing was doing Durgs.The time he was there where pushing him to do the durg.And he did it and than he did not know where he was going and what he was saying.He started to junp out the window and they where on him so he will not jump out the window. So he would not kill himself. ====

**I** Seventh Grade
We read "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton during my reading class. Like my 8th grade classes, we watched the movie to see the differences between the two. Students were given the prompt below to answer using their notes in my Wikispace.

Who do you feel was the bravest character in the novel? You can begin by selecting the part of the story it took place. List details to support your choice of character

The bravest person in the movie is Johnny. He killed a Soc when Johnny was about to die. He stopped the Soc. He didn’t hesitate any about killing the Soc. The Socs ran after there buddy got killed and Johnny and Pony ran for help from Dally. Dally told them where to go and they went there. While they where there Johnny went and did all the shopping and every thing for them. He later helped get kids out of a burning church. He got hurt when helping them get out. It ended up costing him his life. This makes him the bravest person in both the movie and the book.