"Richard
This is how old Allie is in the story.
What is 3 years old?
This is how old the author is in the story.
What is 15 years old?
This is the author of "Indian Education"
Who is Sherman Alexie?
This is an example (quote) from any of the stories where the author uses figurative language. (Metaphor, Simile, Imagery)
What is:
"But if my mother is right, the itching isn't coming from infection anymore, it's coming from the fact I never removed the dressing from the wound." ("Between Us: A Reckoning With My Mother")
The author compares herself to a "defective but well-meaning" one of these.
What is a ghost?
This is the disease that the author's father is diagnosed with.
What is Pick's Disease?
In this grade, the author switches from a school on the reservation to the “white farm high school”
What is seventh grade?
This is one of the author’s craft elements you noticed in either- Between Us: “A Reckoning w/ My Mother” or “If You Knew Then What I Know Now”
What is imagery, sentence structure, paragraph structure, plot, dialogue...
This is one reason the author used comics in her memoir.
What is to move the plot along and to add humor?
This is a quote that shows how the author feels towards her father.
What is "I decided then that I would be grateful for just four more years with Dad, enough for him to see me become an adult for real."
This is one of the bullying incidents the author encounters in “Indian Education”.
What is "...my Indian name was Junior Falls Down. Sometimes it was Bloody Nose or Steal-His-Lunch. Once, it was Cries-Like-a-White-Boy,..."
This is the POV that most of the memoirs we read in class were written in.
BONUS: This is the memoir written in 2nd person.
What is first person?
BONUS: What is "If You Knew Then What I Know Now"
This is the point of view in "Richard".
What is first person?
This was a quote that showed the story took place during COVID.
What is "Mom slipped on a medical mask and went to negotiate with the vendor."
or
"Mom worked through quarantine, so I stayed home and cooked his dinner..."
This is one reason the author wrote in short paragraph form.
What is to better show the progression of time?
This is one of the “craft elements” from the author’s craft cheat sheet and what its effect is.
What are POV, word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, dialogue...
This is the author's realization at the end of the story.
What is that it must have been weird when her parents realized that she was the villain in the story?
This is the purpose of the memoir.
What is to highlight the fact that the author had become the adult in the relationship with her dad?
This is the author's realization at the end of the story.
What is that they were able to persevere through racism and bullying?
These are two intentional choices made by the author in "Peach Pie".
What are the use of imagery and showing her dad being treated like a child?