HW Mr. Padilla 3.21.16

Homework:

Parents/guardians, please assist your child with today’s homework. 

Topic: We are working on comparing to different novels. Below is a very brief summary of  Arnold Junior Spirit.

* Sherman Alexie ‘s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is about a fourteen-year-old Native kid named Arnold Spirit, Jr., a character based in part on Alexie's experiences growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA. Arnold is funny, sensitive, and a budding artist.

Arnold, though, is not only a teenage Indian going through all of the usual coming of age stuff. Arnold is also the reservation outcast, and he's been beaten to a pulp more times than is probably healthy. Arnold (like Alexie Sherman) makes a choice to leave the reservation and attend the affluent white school twenty-two miles away in Reardan. Branded a traitor, Arnold then gets caught between two worlds: his home on the reservation and the white high school he attends. Feeling as though he fits in nowhere, Arnold is forced to forge a new kind of identity for himself... as if being fourteen years old wasn't hard enough.

** Sherman Alexie ‘s The Absolutely True Diary is about a fourteen-year-old Native kid named Arnold Spirit, Jr., … based in part on Alexie's experiences growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation…Arnold is funny, sensitive, and an artist.

Arnold, is not only a teenage Indian going through all of the usual coming of age stuff. Arnold is also an outcast, and he's been beaten … more times than is probably healthy. Arnold (like Alexie Sherman) makes a choice to leave the reservation and attend the… white school twenty-two miles away in Reardan. Branded a traitor, Arnold then gets caught between two worlds: his home on the reservation and the white high school he attends. Feeling as though he fits in nowhere, Arnold is forced to forge a new kind of identity for himself... as if being fourteen years old wasn't hard enough.

*** Sherman Alexie ‘s The Absolutely True Diary is about a fourteen-year-old Native kid named Arnold Spirit, Jr., … based in part on Alexie's experiences growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation…Arnold is funny, sensitive, and an artist.

…Arnold is also an outcast... Arnold (like Alexie Sherman) makes a choice to leave the reservation and attend the… white school…in Reardan. Branded a traitor, Arnold then gets caught between two worlds: his home on the reservation and the white high school he attends. Feeling as though he fits in nowhere, Arnold is forced to forge (make up) a new ... identity for himself... as if being fourteen years old wasn't hard enough.

Option 1: Base response on the above summary of Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian and what you have learned about the novel Persepolis so far.

The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian and Persepolis have several things in common.  To begin with, they are both coming of age stories.

Your task: identify in this summary anything and everything that you think Junior Spirit and Marjane have in common.  Explain how and why for each one.

Remember, there are no right and wrong answers (mistakes are welcome) as long as you support your points with evidence from the text.

Option 2: Base response on the above summary of Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian and what you have learned about the novel Persepolis so far.

Book
Author & Main Character
Description of character
Where does the character live and where to they go.
What is it like growing up?

Option 3: Base response on the above summary of Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian and what you have learned about the novel Persepolis so far.

Book
Author
Character Name
One problem the character has

Question: Which character do you think has a bigger problem? Why do you think so?

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