Tracks by Louise Erdrich Unit
Watch Erdrich and Dorris interview
Watch Mille Lacs video
Research and speech assignment (website links)
7 Steps of the Research Process
Anno Bib
Read Ch. 6 Gathering Materials in The Art of Public Speaking and respond to Review
Questions 1-8 on page 169
Anno bibliography
Thesis statement
Outline – plagiarism talk, Ch. 2 Ethics in The Art of Public Speaking, respond to Review
Questions
Rough Draft and peer review
Final draft
Bio of Louise Erdrich – interviews, etc.
Watch Black Robe
The Novel – How to read a Novel – how to approach writing a paper about a novel
(handout/overhead)
Themes
- The Other
- boundaries
- oral tradition
- evocation of counterhistory in the historical narrative constructed through
documents
- history of dispossession
- countering invisibility
- play of absence and presence
- invisible and visible
- vision
- border theory
- transculturalism
- language/image/structure/character
- multiple perspectives/pairing of narrators with different moments in time,
creates gaps in stories (textual silences or holes)
- fluidity of identity
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psychological borderlands, sexual borderlands, spiritual borderlands, class
borderlands, individual
Borders object assignment