HW Mr. Padilla 3.20.17

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

As you read the summary of Sherman Alexie ‘s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian: Underline any similarities you see between this summary and what you know about Persepolis. 

Option 1:

 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.

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.

Option 2:

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.

Task: Underline things that Arnold and Marjane have in common. Write what they have in common in graph below.

Arnold Spirit	Marjane

Option 3:

 Sherman Alexie ‘s The Absolutely True Diary is about a fourteen-year-old Native kid named Arnold Spirit, Jr.,

1.     How old is Arnold?

 … based in part on Alexie's experiences growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation…Arnold is funny, sensitive, and an artist.

2.     How is Arnold described?

…Arnold is also an outcast... Arnold (like Alexie Sherman) makes a choice to leave the reservation and attend the… white school…in Reardan.

3.     What challenges does Arnold have?

… Arnold then gets caught between two worlds: his home on the reservation and the white high school he attends.

4.     What happens to Arnold?

Feeling as though he fits in nowhere, Arnold is forced to forge (make up) a new ... identity for himself...

5.     Why does Arnold have to forge a new identity?

The BIG Challenge: List at least one thing Arnold has in common with Marjane:

               

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