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Analysis | Earth on the Turtle's Back
Assignment: Answer the following questions from The Earth on the Turtle’s Back. For each question, formulate your answer in a literary analysis paragraph:
How do the actions of the swans, duck and beaver represent the way we react to things as humans? Based on this myth, who created Earth? What is the significance of the natural environment in this myth?
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Course DescriptionGreat World Text is an advanced English and Social Studies course sponsored by the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Humanities that investigates the novel There There by Tommy Orange, American novelist and citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. There There is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few have seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. There There shows violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. Through these striking, tragic, and often funny portraits of Native experience, classrooms will also explore specific topics such as fetal alcohol syndrome, housing insecurity, recovery, and healing Categories
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