Assignment: On Earth reading questions

ELA 10-A (H) (Tri 2)
2022-02-17T21:58:48Z

Due: Feb 25, 2022 by 11:59pm

Hi kiddos!

Please read pages 165-193 of On Earth with Ms. Nickell while I'm gone. Answer the following questions below. You might want to copy this onto a Google Doc while you work, so you can have your work saved between Thursday and Friday :)

I'm going to make these questions a little more challenging, but you got this! Just do your best! The only way to not get full credit is to not answer them all :)

1. Read pages 165-169. What has happened to Trevor? Little Dog has often talked about the scar in the shape of a comma on Trevor's neck - what might that symbolize (consider that a comma in a sentence indicates a pause before the sentence continues). What does it mean that Little Dog now pictures it in the shape of a period?

2. Read pages 169-176. Here again we are getting a sort of poem from Little Dog. While the whole book is a litter to his mother, this poem reminds us of that and seems more directly addressed to her. Choose one line from that poem and quote it here. Then say what larger idea you think Little Dog wants his mother to understand from it.

3. Read pages 177-180. Discuss the nature documentary with the buffalos. What does it mean that they don't know it's a cliff, that they are just following their family? How does this relate to Little Dog and his mother and grandmother? How does it relate to Trevor and his father? Do Little Dog and Trevor have agency and the ability to make their own choices, do you think, or are they doomed to follow their families' footsteps?

4. Read pages 180-193. This section has so many good and thought-provoking lines in it! I want you to choose TWO. Quote them below and explain both what you think each one means AND why you think it was included in this story (like, how does it connect to the larger story?)

Hi kiddos!

Please read pages 165-193 of On Earth with Ms. Nickell while I'm gone. Answer the following questions below. You might want to copy this onto a Google Doc while you work, so you can have your work saved between Thursday and Friday :)

I'm going to make these questions a little more challenging, but you got this! Just do your best! The only way to not get full credit is to not answer them all :)

1. Read pages 165-169. What has happened to Trevor? Little Dog has often talked about the scar in the shape of a comma on Trevor's neck - what might that symbolize (consider that a comma in a sentence indicates a pause before the sentence continues). What does it mean that Little Dog now pictures it in the shape of a period?

2. Read pages 169-176. Here again we are getting a sort of poem from Little Dog. While the whole book is a litter to his mother, this poem reminds us of that and seems more directly addressed to her. Choose one line from that poem and quote it here. Then say what larger idea you think Little Dog wants his mother to understand from it.

3. Read pages 177-180. Discuss the nature documentary with the buffalos. What does it mean that they don't know it's a cliff, that they are just following their family? How does this relate to Little Dog and his mother and grandmother? How does it relate to Trevor and his father? Do Little Dog and Trevor have agency and the ability to make their own choices, do you think, or are they doomed to follow their families' footsteps?

4. Read pages 180-193. This section has so many good and thought-provoking lines in it! I want you to choose TWO. Quote them below and explain both what you think each one means AND why you think it was included in this story (like, how does it connect to the larger story?)