Part-Time Indian Photostory

Here is a "photo story" from the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. As a way of making predictions about the book, show this image and have students put the pictures in order of events.  Encourage them to tell a story.  Almost all of them put the blonde with the biker.  It blows their mind that the blonde ends up with the kid that's getting picked on in the book.  

Astrological Comparison

A Google discussion board posting designed to get students used to examining a text through an outside lens.  

This should be a fun activity.  I want you to choose a character from either The Catcher in the Rye, or The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian and infer their astrological sign based upon what you know about their personality from the events of your book.  Be sure to back up your claim with specific evidence from the book.  

Here's a quick guide to the signs:

ARIES - Assertive, aggressive, act quickly, needs adventure 

TAURUS - Stubborn, build slowly, expensive tastes, needs security 

GEMINI - Flexible, social, needs information & options 

CANCER - Indirect, emotional, needs a family 

LEO - Flamboyant, creative, egotistical, needs appreciation & self-expression 

VIRGO - Picky, careful, critical, needs things to make sense 

LIBRA - Social, wishy-washy, needs a relationship 

SCORPIO - Jealous, fight to the death, needs control 

SAGITTARIUS - Restless, philosophical, needs new horizons 

CAPRICORN - Executive, leader, needs to be boss 

AQUARIUS - Innovative, exciting, unconventional, needs to be independent 

PISCES - Sensitive, retreating, needs peace & quiet 

all right, all right... I give...

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