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3:7 Hyperlinking Green Grass, Running Wate
The section that I will be covering in Green Grass, Running Water is the introduction of Eli Stand Alone with the focus upon on his role in the story: standing his ground by literally remaining inside his mothers house to stop the … Continue reading
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3:5 The Four Humorous Indians
Narratives assume, in Blanca Chester’s words, “a common matrix of cultural knowledge.” The Four Old Indians are perhaps the best examples of characters that belong to a matrix of cultural knowledge, which excludes many non-First Nations. What were your first … Continue reading
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3.2: Immigration Act 1910
2] In this lesson I say that it should be clear that the discourse on nationalism is also about ethnicity and ideologies of “race.” If you trace the historical overview of nationalism in Canada in the CanLit guide, you will … Continue reading
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2:6 Mapping Out What It Means
Question 3 In order to address this question you will need to refer to Sparke’s article, “A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation.” You can easily find this article online. Read the … Continue reading
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2:4 Two Sides to Every ‘Written Document’
Question 5 “If Europeans were not from the land of the dead, or the sky, alternative explanations which were consistent with indigenous cosmologies quickly developed” (“First Contact” 43). Robinson gives us one of those alternative explanations in his stories about … Continue reading
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2:3 Your Home, His Home, Her Home, My Home.
Read at least 6 students blog short stories about ‘home’ and make a list of BOTH the common shared assumptions, values and stories that you find and look for differences as well; look to see if you can find student peers … Continue reading
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2:2 ‘Home’ grows just as we do
Write a short story (600 – 1000 words) that describes your sense of home; write about the values and the stories that you use to connect yourself to, and to identify your sense of home. March 22nd 2008 was the day … Continue reading
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1:5 How Evil Came Into The World
Your task is to take the story about how evil comes into the world, the story King tells about the Witches’ convention in Chapter One of The Truth about Stories, and change it any way you want, except the ending. … Continue reading
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1:2 The Impact of Social Media Tools and Hypertext
At the beginning of this lesson I pointed to the idea that technological advances in communication tools have been part of the impetus to rethink the divisive and hierarchical categorizing of literature and orality, and suggested that this is happening … Continue reading
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Hello, It’s Me…Not Adele.
Hi, my name is Bryony-Rose Heathwood and as I write this I am wondering how many of you are sick of hearing “Hello, It’s Me” jokes or just Adele in general, but honestly I don’t care. She is Queen and … Continue reading
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