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Materials and Handouts

Day One
1.1 Tea Party Excerpts from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

I was born with water on the brain (1).


Yep, so that means I was staring at a geometry book that was at least thirty years older
than I was (31).
I had followed the rules of fighting. I had behaved exactly the way I was supposed to
behave. But these white boys had ignored the rules. In fact, the followed a whole other
set of mysterious rules (65).
But I just kept thinking that my sisters spirit hadnt been killed. She hadnt given up. The
reservation had tried to suffocate her, had kept her trapped in a basement, and now she
was out roaming the huge grassy fields of Montana (91).
Traveling between Reardan and Wellpoint, 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 (118).
I knew that practice started in a week. Id planned on playing. But I didnt know if the
Coach liked Indians or not (125).
He opened his wallet and handed me forty bucks. Holy, holy. What kind of kid can just
hand over forty bucks like that? (127)
I wanted to find out everything I could about grief. I wanted to know why my family had
been given so much to grieve about (172).
I realized I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in my loneliness (217).

1.2 Research Questions - to be displayed on projector


Each group will respond to one of the following research questions:
Group 1: Research the Trail of Tears: What is it? Why did it happen? What were the
effects (immediate and lasting)? What else is important to know about the Trail of Tears?
Group 2: What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs? How was it established? What is its role
in Native American life? What else is important to know about the Bureau of Indian
Affairs?
Group 3: Research life on a Native American reservation. What is the education like?
Who is in charge? What jobs do the people commonly have? What else is important to
know about reservations?
Group 4: Research the Spokane Indian Tribe: Where do they live? How many people are
in the tribe? What do they believe? What else is important to know about the Spokane
Indian tribe?

Day Three
3.1 White/Indian comparison, p. 57 of Part-Time Indian, projected on board and available
in students books.

Day Four
4.1 Unwritten Rules, p. 61 of Part-Time Indian, projected on board and available in
students books.

4.2 Unwritten Rules Assignment Sheet

Unwritten Rules
Junior gives us a depiction of some of the Unwritten Rules that he finds on his Spokane
Indian Reservation. These are the rules that all residents inherently follow to help keep
the society in peace (as peaceful as fisticuffs can be). Think about a part of your life
where there are Unwritten Rules - rules that everybody knows to follow, even though
they are not explicitly said or written. For example: The Unwritten Rules of Dinner at
Grandmas, of Surviving Middle School, of Playing Soccer, etc.
Your assignment: Create a list of at least five unwritten rules for your topic, and create a
poster where you list these rules. These will be hung in the class, so make sure your
writing is neat and your poster is decorated!

Day Six
6.1 Comic Handout

Comic Strips
Junior illustrates his daily walk to school on pg. 88 of The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian. This is a seemingly mundane and routine procedure - but it is also a
very important part of his day.
Your task: think about your life, and choose a daily routine, or a special event, that means
a lot to you. Create a comic strip depicting this. You can use an online comic generator
such as Storyboard That, or you may draw this by hand. We will be sharing these in a
Gallery Walk near the end of the unit, so be sure to put in your best effort.
You will also need to write a 1-2 page, typed, self-reflection about this comic. This will
need to include an explanation of how you chose the event you did, and why it is
important enough to document in a comic. Also answer the following: Why did you
choose the dialogue you did, and why was the dialogue important to the story? How do
comics tell stories differently than books? Why do you think Alexie includes both comics
and prose in his novel?

Day Eight
8.1 Hierarchy of Questions (from Pam Coke)

George Hillocks Hierarchy of Questions


Literal Level
1 Basic stated information: usually prominent in the text and basic to
understanding higher level meanings
2 Key detail: important to the twists and turns of the plot, occur at key junctures
in the plot and bear some causal relationship to what happens in the plot
3 Stated relationships: reader must locate the relationship between two or more
pieces of information such as characters or events and the relationship must be
directly stated in the text
Inferential Level of Comprehension
4 Simple implied relationships: similar to previous type, but the answers are
not explicitly stated in the text; usually the pieces of the information are closely
juxtaposed
5 Complex implied relationships: involve a large number of details; reader
must identify the details, discern whatever pattern exists among them, and then
draw the appropriate inference
6 Authors generalization: deal with ideas implied about the world outside the
work; reader sees work as it reflects some conception of the human situation as
it exists outside the limits of the work
7 Structural generalizations: reader must explain how parts of the book operate
together to achieve certain effects; first, it must require the reader to deal with
the arrangement of certain parts of a work; second, it must require an
explanation of how the structure works in supporting certain effects

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