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Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Nations / USA. 1966)

Novel:The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (230 pages) michelle read it in a winter weekend, meaning, it's an easy read /ri:d/ but best for Upper Intermediate and Advanced level students if you are also going to do some good analyses!
Read some excerpts of this novel
(blog at a state-run language school in Spain. Hey, state-run schools of any sort in Spain are really good! It's not like in the USA! The same goes for public healthcare!)

Activities
Dakota North's Questions (Power Point) on Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (chapters 1-5)
Navigations Tips: By clicking on each page, you move on. Click on ToC (Table of Contents) to go back to the list of chapters. When you click on an external link, you need to use the Back Button to get back to the PP Presentation! Post Dakota on her work!
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Movie: Sherman Alexie wrote the screenplay of the movie "Smoke Signals". On the Net, we can buy the book, but we cannot buy the movie, because the DVD and VHS versions available are only for North America (Region 1, for the USA and Canada).

michelle's list of books she bought by Sherman Alexie! She might let you borrow one! :)

The Screenplay

The Movie

Fry Bread Power T-shirt

Discuss the Screenplay/Movie
on the TP Forums

Smoke Signals

Read Carlos's review on Your Stuff

Smoke Signals at the EOI Getafe Books & Films Blog See what students at a state-run language school in Spain thought about it

Comment the movie on the Dakota in Spain blog

Watch 4 movie scenes at YouTube

I bought a few of theseT-shirts...
What could I do with them?
Should we organize a contest or something?

What is fry bread? Listen and take notes!

Sherman Alexie's official site