Quote #5 Due 11/4

Read the following quotation from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.  In a complete and well supported paragraph express what the excerpt means in the context of the independent reading you have completed in class.  Use specific evidence from both the book and one independent reading article to support your response.

Quote #5 Due 11/4

Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear.

But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten that reservations were meant to be death camps.

I wept because I was the only one who was brave and crazy enough to leave the rez. I was the only one with enough arrogance. (pp. 216-217)

Quote # 4 - Due on Monday 10/28

Read the following quotation from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.  In a complete and well supported paragraph express what the excerpt means in the context of the independent reading you have completed in class.  Use specific evidence from both the book and one independent reading article to support your response.

 

Quote #4 - Due on Monday 10/28

Gordy gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians. And he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reason: the fricking booze.

Yep, so let me pour a drink for Tolstoy and let him think hard about the true definition of unhappy families. (p. 201)

Quote # 3 - Due on Monday 10/21

Read the following quotation from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.  In a complete and well supported paragraph express what the excerpt means in the context of the independent reading you have completed in class.  Use specific evidence from both the book and one independent reading article to support your response.

Quote #3 - Due on Monday 10/21

Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger.

I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. (p.118)

Quote #2 Due on Monday - 10/14

Read the following quotation from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part –Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.  In a complete and well supported paragraph express what the excerpt means in the context of the independent reading you have completed in class.  Use specific evidence from both the book and one independent reading article to support your response.

Quote #2

Due on Monday, 10/14

"Arnold," she said one day after school, "I hate this little town. It's so small, too small. Everything about it is small. The people here have small ideas. Small dreams. They all want to marry each other and live here forever."

"What do you want to do?" I asked.

"I want to leave as soon as I can. I think I was born with a suitcase."

Yeah, she talked like that. All big and goofy and dramatic. I wanted to make fun of her, but she was just so earnest. (p. 111)