Breakfast of Champions (Readers)

By Susie Rogers,

5th-8th, ELA

Chocolate cake and Pepsi for breakfast? Why not? It is the perfect combination to celebrate the completion of our novel study of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. In this classic tale of growing up and trying to find your place in the world, brothers live without parents, so cake for breakfast it is! After they read the novel, students were required to create a Bloom Ball, which is based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. Each side represented knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and creation levels. This provided a powerful framework for engaging with The Outsiders on multiple cognitive levels. We concluded our novel study by watching the movie and enjoying cake and Pepsi! This immersive approach makes The Outsiders more than just a story; it becomes a shared moment of reflection and celebration.