{"id":15700,"date":"2023-04-19T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/lesson-7-native-american-literature-louise-erdrich-the-birchbark-house-and-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-hiawatha\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:55:05","slug":"lesson-7-native-american-literature-louise-erdrich-the-birchbark-house-and-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-hiawatha","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/lesson-7-native-american-literature-louise-erdrich-the-birchbark-house-and-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-hiawatha\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 7 – Native American literature: Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preface<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not sure how to go about the poetry reading for this lesson, check out the Purdue OWL link about poetry in course materials, left column.<\/div>\n
Read<\/div>\n
Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House<\/div>\n
Audio available from: audible<\/div>\n
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha at: http:\/\/www.theotherpages.org\/poems\/hiawatha.html#notes<\/div>\n
Hiawatha audio (https:\/\/librivox.org\/the-song-of-hiawatha-by-henry-wadsworth-longfellow\/)<\/div>\n
Read at least \u201cLongfellow\u2019s Introduction\u201d and \u201cHiawatha\u2019s Childhood\u201d. Please do not read another version–use this one.<\/div>\n
Questions for the discussion board:<\/div>\n
What surprised you about each of these works?<\/div>\n
What do these two books have in common, and what are the big differences? Consider, please, the portrayal of Ojibwa Indians, the relationships among families, characterization, description of scenery.<\/div>\n
Why does the poetry of Hiawatha sound and feel so odd to us? You might try comparing the sound of a Shakespeare poem to a line or so of Longfellow-why is this kind of poetry so strange, and so easy to parody?<\/div>\n
These are the same native tribes, portrayed over a century apart\u2014what values do these stories have in common? How are these portrayals of Indians different?<\/div>\n
Locate the criteria for the following book awards, which Birchbark won.What did the judges see that won each award for this book?<\/div>\n
National Book Award –  <\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nba_process.html#.UaX3Qr7D91s<\/div>\n
 National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award <\/div>\n
(https:\/\/nationalcowboymuseum.org\/event\/western-heritage-awards\/)<\/div>\n
The Western Heritage Awards honors individuals who have made significant contributions to Western heritage through creative works in literature, music, television and film that share the great stories of the American West.  <\/div>\n
Jane Addams Children\u2019s Book Award –<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.janeaddamschildrensbookaward.org\/<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Response<\/div>\n
Please respond to at least one colleague in the class with a substantial response that shows your agreement\/disagreement\/questions about their answers to the questions for the lesson.<\/div>\n
Research<\/div>\n
Please evaluate these websites for inclusion in our textbook:<\/div>\n
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(http:\/\/www.hwlongfellow.org\/)<\/div>\n
Louise Erdrich (http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yWI32GHB4so)<\/div>\n
Native American Myths (http:\/\/americanfolklore.net\/folklore\/native-american-myths\/)<\/div>\n
Birch Bark Canoe (http:\/\/www.nativetech.org\/brchbark\/brchbark.htm)<\/div>\n
Birchbark Books (http:\/\/birchbarkbooks.com\/) This is Louise Erdrich’s own bookstore, which she operates when she’s not writing.<\/div>\n
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Extra for Experts<\/div>\n
The Birchbark House has been compared to Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder because both stories take place in Wisconsin, at about the same time in Wisconsin\u2019s history. Read Little House (NOT Little House on the Prairie, though there\u2019s some opportunity for comparison there, too) and talk about how the native child\u2019s experience is different from the white settler\u2019s child.<\/div>\n
You must demonstrate through your answer that you’ve actually readLittle House, not just read about it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preface If you\u2019re not sure how to go about the poetry reading for this lesson, check out the Purdue OWL link about poetry in course materials, left column. Read Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House Audio available from: audible Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha at: http:\/\/www.theotherpages.org\/poems\/hiawatha.html#notes Hiawatha audio (https:\/\/librivox.org\/the-song-of-hiawatha-by-henry-wadsworth-longfellow\/) Read at least \u201cLongfellow\u2019s Introduction\u201d and \u201cHiawatha\u2019s Childhood\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/15700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/15700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=15700"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=15700"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=15700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}