Indigenous Literature English Assignments

Table of Contents:

Reading & Writing Opportunities

IL-1.1.shrinking away.slides

Indigenous Literature Unit (2023-2024)

Spreadsheet for Possible Points

This was part of the daily lessons for English class 2023-2024, but you can still look at the slides and do the assignments!

The Dance House, short stories by Joseph Marshall III

The Dance House: Stories from Rosebud, by Joseph Marshall III

This is a collection of Marshall's short stories, all based around life on Rosebud, a Lakota Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  Joseph Marshall is an enrolled member of the tribe.


Choose a story from this collection and complete a 

REAP (Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder) Sheet 

or up to 6 points each.

Read, 

Encode (summarize), 

Annotate, 

Ponder



Stories:

"Oliver's Silver Dollar" p. 1

"Lure of the Holy Iron" p. 203

"The Myth of the Hunter/Warrior or Men Did the Dangerous Work, Women the Impossible" p. 159

"White Lore" p. 189

"The Bloodlines of Heritage" p. 145

"Cozy by the Fire" p. 27

"Buffalo Grass" p. 175

"The Birthday Turtle" p. 129

"Pride" p. 113

"When the Grasses Talk" p. 101

"The Dance House" p. 85

"Nelson and Star" p. 51

"1965 Continental" p. 69





alc.reap.pdf

Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View from the Rez by Jim Northrup

This book is a group of non-fiction essays written by Jim Northrup, an Anishinaabe writer from Minnesota's Fond du Lac Reservation.  He's very well known in northern Minnesota, and across the United States.  

Mr. Northrup writes with humor (and sometimes bitter humor) with a keen eye about what it means to be a modern Indian and Veteran living in the world today.

This book is divided into THIRTEEN different essays.  You may read one essay or all thirteen, or anything in between, for points.  

For each essay, do the following for UP TO 6 points:


1.  Read the essay and annotate (take notes on your Questions, Predictions, Evaluations, Connections, Comments) using either notebook paper, sticky notes, or an annotation sheet (below in files).  You should have approximately 15 annotations per essay.  THIS PART IS WORTH 2 POINTS.



2.  Look up FIVE words that are new to you, or used in a new way.  Complete the Vocab Sheet (below in files).  THIS PART IS WORTH 1 POINT.


3.  Write your own response to Northrup's essay:  Do you agree?  Disagree?  What did you like the most?  What, if anything, offended you?  Have you experienced something similar?  

Your response should be word-processed, spelled correctly, have indented paragraphs, and your name and date at the top.  You should have at least five paragraphs, and it should be edited and double-spaced.  THIS PART IS WORTH 3 POINTS. 

How to Annotate

Vocabulary Log: Also required!

Vocabulary Log.pdf

Choose which method of annotating you wish: You have TWO options:

Annotations Boxes.pdf

Annotation Boxes

Double entry journal

Double-Entry Journal

Indigenous Novel Projects

Miscellaneous Assignments

Standing Rock (2016)

Click here to view the Standing Rock Research Project from 2016

"I Am" Assignment

"I Am" Poetry Study & Writing

7-10 English points

March 2, 2022

I Am by D. Daye Hunter.pdf

Indigenous Music Responses



Article Responses: 3-6 points, depending on depth of writing and editing (mechanics count).


Video Responses: 2-4 points, depending on depth of writing and editing (mechanics count)



Articles





Videos