A handout with different slang terms which could be used in their journal entries and what they mean.

A planning sheet (assessment scaffolding).

A PowerPoint which is used to step students through the various parts of the scaffolding sheet.

A lesson designed for use in a 10 English unit who have studied the novel The Outsiders in the previous term and now are using it as inspiration for a creative writing assignment (either a gap/silence short story or a series of journal entries from the perspective of a character other than Ponyboy).