Introduction to Our Novel

Hi all,

Today in class we exchanged our textbooks for our novel.  We will be reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.  In order to get us thinking about the novel and some of its messages, we had two guest speakers in our class today.  They joined us in order to talk about the local First Nations people, as well as the history of residential and reservation schools.  We then began discussing the novel and the authors background.

Handouts:

Author Background: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FP8Z1DIqq04Tj9OpBDYkvXxRe6blr0_FtVHR7OZ-wJY/edit?usp=sharing

Map of Spokane Tribe: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1es0zAPFCmtONBVRRbZvwlchYao8C9EDjJm3hwOx-1G8/edit?usp=sharing

Homework:

Please read until page 24 of the novel for tomorrow.