The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Novel Guide Book

Funny, heartbreaking, and illustrated with Junior's own cartoons, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a novel students actually want to read.

Teach Part-Time Indian with a complete guide.

This Novel Guide™ helps students understand Sherman Alexie's literary techniques, from humor to the diary format, while exploring identity, belonging, and resilience, and building reading comprehension, critical thinking, and analytical skills.

Novel Guide Includes:

• CCSS alignment
• Prereading activities
• Vocabulary exercises
• Background information
• Chapter summaries
• Discussion questions
• Literary devices lessons and activities
• Reflective, expository, and analytical writing
• Character and plot analysis activities
• Whole novel project assignments
• Depth of Knowledge end of novel writing prompts
• Grading rubrics
• Final test

Bonus: Differentiated activities designed for struggling readers, PLUS extra activities for each chapter, including selected activities for accelerated learners.

Hope can live in two worlds at once.

About the Author

Johanna Parkhurst grew up on a small dairy farm in northern Vermont before relocating to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She holds degrees from Albertus Magnus College and Teachers College, Columbia University, where she studied the teaching of English. She divides her time between teaching and writing, and she's published three novels for young adults in between obsessing over which lesson plan to use the next day.

Johanna loves traveling, hiking, skiing, and yelling at the TV during football and hockey season.

Print Book (4S2834): Spiral-bound with CD (PDF), 8 x 11 inches, 94 pages plus bonus activities, reproducible.
Book Download (4S2834DL): PDF, 94 pages plus bonus activities, reproducible. We recommend Foxit PDF for viewing or editing PDFs.
Middle school, high school. ©2017.