For this outside reading challenge, you will be asked to read and enjoy the novel donated to us by First Book, an organization which helps to provide students with new reading materials. You will also be asked to respond to a weekly reading question on the novel by posting a comment on the blog.
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1. I think he refers himself as a "part-time" Indian because maybe he doesn't truly see himself as a real Indian. Through the two different covers, I think one cover shows that it has something involving Indians & Cowboys, & the other cover may get someone to think its about a native who may seem out of place. Both covers may show of his personal struggle of how he has to endure being different, while the other may show his struggles with being Native and having to deal with whites.
ReplyDelete2. In US History I learned that Native Americans were treated extremly badly & unfairly. Their promises were always broken. When they were pushed to reservations, it was a very poor location to live. The ground wasn't good for farming, diseases were everywhere, & they had not many resources.
1. I think he sees himself as a part-time Indian because at the school in the reservation, the teachers are trying to take the Indian culture & way of life away from the Indians. I think the cover shows his personal struggle because someone is drawn as a figure that cannot move, and he feels that if he does not move off the reservation then he is stuck and limited.
ReplyDelete2. In english this year, i learned that Native Americans were treated very poorly. They had to live on the reservation and life on the reservation was not pleasant at all. The reservations where they were located were very isolated, and food and medical care was limited.
the main character Junior refers to himself as a "part-time" Indian because he does not like the way his people are living and see the whites as an exapmle of having a perfect life. he knows he is bound as an indian but wants to have the life a white person has. he struggled with the fact that he wants to better himself and wants a bright future , but he would never achieve his goal if he stay on the reservation. the two images the the indian is who Junoir is , and the cowboy is what he wants to become.
ReplyDeletethis year iv've learned that native americans suffered greatly when the white seattlers came to thier land. the white seatters wanted land and the native americans were in the way, so the sought to remove them from the land or forced them to assimulate. thier land was taken away form the, they were killed and taken advantaged of. the goverment had broken every treaty they ever made with the native and left the to suffer.
the native americans that had stayed behind live on reservation set up by the goverment, it was supose to be a home for the native but when the native git thier , it was not a home they had been promised. the reservation had poor living coditions, lach of food nad medical attantion which the native died from untreated diseases.