Author Archives: SeanDyer

Prompt:  “Each student should select a section of Green Grass Running Water approximately 10 pages. The task at hand is to first discover as many allusions as you can to historical references (people and events), literary references (characters and authors), … Continue reading →

Prompt “Coyote Pedagogy is a term sometimes used to describe King’s writing strategies (Margery Fee and Jane Flick). Discuss your understanding of the role of Coyote in the novel.” ______________________________________________________________ Green Grass, Running Water, by Thomas King is formatted in two different … Continue reading →

Prompt 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 find many … Continue reading →

Assignment 2.6 Prompt: Following Carlson’s discussions on literacy as “part of a broader genre of transformation” (61), try to explain what he means when he says that transformation is an “act of literacy.” This can be confusing at first, but … Continue reading →

Prompt “We began this unit by discussing assumptions and differences that we carry into our class. In “First Contact as Spiritual Performance,” Lutz makes an assumption about his readers (Lutz, “First Contact” 32). He asks us to begin with the … Continue reading →

Prompt Read at least 6 students blog short stories about ‘home’ and make a list of the common shared assumptions, values and stories that you find. Post this list on your blog with some commentary about what you discovered. Our … Continue reading →

Home to me, is where I was born, where I grew up, and the society of that small town. Home is a feeling of safety, of familiarity and of family. Home is a place of belonging, of memory and a … Continue reading →

Before the birth of mortal men, in days dim and distant, a mistake was made. A boy, blessed and beloved, born to the All-Father, Beorhthelm The Bold, Graced the grass of what we now know as Earth. The Gods granted … Continue reading →

In the final chapter of If this is your land, Where are your stories? There were many more than three interesting topics that stuck with me, but the the most interesting metaphor used by Chamberlain, is that of table manners. In … Continue reading →

Good afternoon to you all! I am very excited to study Canadian literature with you all during our upcoming semester together! I am eager to get to know you all personally. My name is Sean Dyer and I am a … Continue reading →