In today’s blog post I will be writing about my experience with the outsiders project. I will be telling you about how I gathered knowledge to make my tableau successful, my journey with movie posters, and how I discovered a deeper understanding of the outsiders novel

 Before I get into this post I should explain to you what worldview is. Worldview are the lenses in which we view the world though, it is a person’s individual philosophy that shapes how they think. There are seven main aspects of worldview: geography, time, beliefs, society, values, economy and knowledge. We did some activities in class you get an understanding of what our personal worldview was, and one of the activities was this mind map. 

Gathering knowledge  

I learned about this book in a number of ways. Not only did I read the book and watch the movie but I participated in weekly book discussions with my group to help me deepen my understanding about the book. In the book chats we would come prepared with questions we had thought of while reading the book and discuss those questions with our groups. 

Another way I gained knowledge was by doing weekly drama exercises in my classes to help me enhance my final tableau.  (A tableau is a  I learned about being at different height levels, how to make facial expressions that coney emotion even with a mask on, and how to exaggerate all of my poses to make sure it is easy to see what is happening.

Movie posters 

We started off by creating an individual movie poster to showcase one worldview aspect and some relation to Ponyboy ( a character from the outsiders) My movie poster had me on the front reading a book. It was to show the aspect of knowledge. The connection to ponyboy was that I was reading a book and because Ponyboy was poor and couldn’t afford to travel the way here learned about the world was by reading. It is also funny how my individual poster started with me and a book, similar to my experience with this project, and overtime as i worked with more people it transformed in to something much more than that, a big colourful thing with lots of people. 

Working With My Team

Now I have been writing a lot about how i have been taking in information but the other side of it is how I took all of the information I learned over the corse of this project and shared it with the help of my classmates to the people that came to watch our tableau. My team and I spent many hours at school planning out our positions in the tableu, our facial expressions, what supplies we needed to bring in, building props, putting up backdrops, etc. We wanted to make it a special experience for everyone who came  so we could share all of the things we learned with them.

A Deeper Understanding

In conclusion what the outsiders taught me about worldview is that the gap between the rich and the poor makes it very difficult for the poor to have good experiences and the lower class don’t have very many options. They could either try and fight against society and improve the way they are perceived or the could simply give up and become the way that everyone sees them. In The Outsiders for example everyone sees Ponyboy as a greaser and assumes that because he was born into the lower class that he is a bad person, but when in reality Ponyboy is a very intelligent kind hearted person who risked his life to save children he didn’t even know. I see these things all the time in literature where society is unfair to people because of their wealth, or race and it happens every day which is extremely unfair and makes me so incredibly grateful that I am able to have all of the things that I have today.