The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian Literature Kit Gr 9 12
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Literature Kit Gr. 9-12
Author: Chad Ibbotson
language: en
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Release Date: 2021-12-22
Look past someone’s race and background to discover their value. This resource meets the high school reading skills and serves as enrichment activities. Find reason behind Mr. Dodge’s treatment of Junior. Guess what advice Rowdy may have to offer about Junior’s relationship with Penelope. Students elaborate on Junior’s struggles playing basketball against Wellpinit High School. Identify key events surrounding Junior’s experiences with death and loss. Create a word cloud to depict important moments in the story. Recall the many themes that are central to the plot on a theme tree graphic organizer. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, our worksheets incorporate a variety of scaffolding strategies along with additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key. About the Novel: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian follows Arnold Spirit Jr. as he balances life within two worlds. Arnold lives on the Spokane Reservation with his family, where everyone calls him Junior. Life on the Reservation is constrained. People don’t leave the Reservation. They live their entire lives there and amount to working at the casino. Junior is different. He is smart and has dreams. He decides to go to high school in a nearby town that will grant him bigger opportunities. There, everyone calls him Arnold. On the Reservation, everyone hates him for abandoning them. He is commonly referred to as a traitor. At his new school, everyone hates him for being different. Junior feels stuck between two worlds, not really belonging to either one of them. As the story unfolds, Junior struggles with being an adolescent, on top of trying to fit in. These struggles eventually lead him to discovering who he is and where he truly belongs.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Author: Sherman Alexie
language: en
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date: 2012-01-10
A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
The Road - Literature Kit Gr. 9-12
Author: Gideon Jagged
language: en
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Release Date: 2012-12-18
Students become captivated with the idea of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. Incorporate probing questions and informative vocabulary to create a thorough and useful experience for students. Identify the meaning of words found in the reading. Gain a raw understanding of the father-son dynamic by exploring the father's sacrifice for his son. Make predictions of the disaster that destroyed the world based on clues left by the author. Students imagine a nuclear winter is approaching and must make a plan to stock up their own bunker for survival. Discuss deviations from "proper" grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation used in the novel. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included. About the Novel: The Road is a Pulitzer Prize winning story about a father and son's journey through post apocalyptic America. After an unspecified disaster destroys most life on Earth, a father and son must travel across a desolate landscape in hopes of making it to the coast. Along their way, they are faced with starvation, thieves, and cannibals. The landscape is without vegetation and living animals, and is covered with ash. The sky is dark, the wind is cold, and snow falls gray. Armed only with a revolver and two rounds to protect them, the father and son set out on the road. They finally reach the sea, but the father falls ill and must prepare the son for the time when he will not be around to protect him.