Hey everyone, and welcome back to another blog post in my blog! In this project we did two tableaus. They were about a book called the Outsiders. The Outsiders is a novel by S.E. Hinton, which she wrote in the 1960s. This is a traditional grade 8 book, so old that my parents read it in grade eight! For this project, my group members were Chris, Sydney, Seth, Keenan, and Cameron.
First, we learned about the novel. It was based around two gangs, the Greasers, and the Socs. The Greasers are the gang that the main character, Ponyboy is in, while the Socs are the upper, richer, class. My favourite part of this book was Johnny’s quote, “Star gold Ponyboy, stay gold.”
Second, we learned about worldview. Worldview has seven different aspects. There is geography, time, beliefs, society, values, economy, and knowledge. When we presented this, we had a script explaining how our chosen aspects of worldview relate to our scene that we presented. “We chose this scene to represent two aspects of worldview, geography and economy. If Darry wasn’t stressed about his financial situation he might not have slapped Ponyboy. We also chose geography because they live in a really rough neighbourhood causing them to turn into greasers.” We then transposed this scene into 2021, “we have kept the same aspects for this scene as the first, which can be seen here as geography and economy. Geography is represented by where they live, and economy is represented by the older phone models.”
Last but not least, we learned about Tableaus (I think that’s how you spell it). A Tableau is a still image. A Tableau must include these elements. Different levels (high, medium, low), different body shapes (open or closed), effective use of physical space (balance + visibility), strong poses that communicate a story, strong facial expressions that convey emotion, focus is appropriate and in character.
We presented all of our elements of learning by choosing a scene, representing that scene as a Tableau, and choose two worldview elements to go with our scene. The scene that we
got was in the Curtis’s living room, when Darry slapped Ponyboy. Everyone had different roles in this Tableau. Sydney was a bush, Cameron was Darry, Christian and Keenan were walls of a house, Seth was Sodapop, and I was Ponyboy. Here is us setting up:
“What can the Outsiders teach us about worldview” was the driving question for this post. I think that the Outsiders can teach us a lot about worldview. They live in a rough neighbourhood as the lower class, the Greasers. This novel could happen in our world today, but not here. Maybe in some of the bigger cities where there are more gangs. But I don’t think that it could happen here (also because guns are banned in Canada). Also, I think that the cigarettes would be replaced with vapes.
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