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Lesson 1 (from Frenchie's Coming-To Story, The Fire, Story Part One, and Magic Words )
Objective
Students will investigate Dimaline’s purpose in using an epigraph section to begin the narrative of The Marrow Thieves and will make predictions about its possible connection to the thematic messages within the text.
The epigraph Dimaline includes prior to the novel entitled The Marrow Thieves contains two different quotations. The first item is a quotation by the writer William S. Burroughs, whose words encapsulate the central metaphor at the heart of Dimaline’s novel. Burroughs states, “The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits” (4). The second quotation is one taken from Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road and it focuses on the crucial role of ceremony in the human condition. Students will study the use of an epigraph section to...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3, 9-10.7, 11-12.3, 11-12.7
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