Blank template for a newspaper article on the outsiders

Your Task: Take information from chapter 6 of The Outsiders, and write a newspaper article about the fire at the church.

For English Class, the only thing I am grading is the article itself.

• is organized. (The details of the story should make sense. )
• answers the 5Ws (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How).
• uses vivid details about the event.
  
• includes at least one quote from bystanders, witnesses, or from the Greasers themselves. (You may need to make these up. BE CREATIVE. )
• A headline, photos, and other newspaper elements (You will add most of these in reading class, but you can work on them in English if you finish early.)

*One main article on Trial By Fire activity. This article should be written in third person point of view. This means you are writing it as though you are a reporter on the scene. Make sure you include all of the important key facts-who, what, where, when, why, and how. You can also include eyewitness accounts, bystander’s thoughts and feelings, quotes, etc. Be creative and use your imagination!

*At least one illustration that would represent the main article.

*It also should include any of the following:

*Other articles, other headlines, name/date of newspaper
*Ads for local businesses help wanted, etc.
*movie times, coupons, car sales, etc.
*Weather, sports, obituaries, cartoons, engagement/birth announcements
*Letters to the editor

***ALL items in your 2-3 page newspaper should reflect back to The Outsiders novel. This means that the correct location, the correct time period, the names of specific people and places should be used so the newspaper is authentic. You can still add other pieces of “made up” information as needed, but make sure the paper reflects something that would connect to the setting and plot events of the novel.

Info from Chapter 6

Where: Windrixvill, OK on Jay Mountain

When:
- Early 1960s
- Lunch time
- Wet season
- Jackets worn
- Kids in school
- Fall

Who:
​Johnny Cade
Ponyboy Curtis
Dally (Dallas) Winston
Children
Jerry Wood (Teacher) - big guy

What: (the fire)
- Johnny, Dally, and Pony came back from eating at Dairy Queen to find the
church on fire
- Children are trapped in the church
- Screams are heard from the children
- Johnny and Pony run into the church to save the children
- Rock to break window
- Kids out one by one
- Kid bites Ponyboy
- Dally runs in after them. He pulls Pony and Johnny out of the building when it
starts to collapse
- Leather jacket saves Ponyboy
- Gunshots heard
- All the children are saved
- Johnny is hurt badly with many burns
- Pony and Dally are hurt but are okay

Why/How:
- One of Johnny's/Ponyboy's cigarettes may have started the fire