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Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

This was one of my favorite texts that we have read this quarter. I’m currently teaching JH kids, and I think that a book like this would be perfect for them to read. When kids are in junior high, they are going through all sorts of identity crises trying to figure out who they are. On top of that, there are many obstacles that they have to overcome such a bullies and pressures from family to be great. This book is a great example of a text that will be a perfect resource for teaching all of these ideas.
The novel is a fairly easy read and the graphics inside of the book make it easier to understand the ideas that the author is trying to convey as well as make it more of a ‘fun’ text which can be important for junior high readers. Junior high is often the time where kids lose interest in reading, and so keeping them interested in fun texts like this can be vital to their reading success.

One of my favorite graphics that was included was earlier in the text on page 12 where he is showing what his parents would be like if someone had listened to what and who they wanted to be. I think that talking about things like this with students is important because they spend a lot of their junior high and high school lives planning for a future life and what it will look like so it is important for kids to know that they have support of people around them to be as amazing and wonderful as they wish to be. I think that doing projects along with this novel that will encourage kids to dream big and realize that they can do whatever it is they put their minds to will be a vital part of teaching this novel.  

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