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1. By N. Scott Momaday The Indian Dog. Title Page

2. click arrow to advance slide 2 “I was twelve years old, the bright autumn air was cold and delicious…” Grey Slide Title Is this literal or figurative language? How can you tell?

3. click arrow to advance slide The Indian Dog. 3 “When I was growing up I lived in a pueblo in New Mexico.” Grey Slide Title How does living in a pueblo differ from the traditional Navajo way of life?

4. click arrow to advance slide 4 “…the dog was an unconscionable bargain at five dollars.” Grey Slide Title What does the narrator mean by the term “unconscionable bargain”? What context clues could help you determine the meaning of this term?

5. click arrow to advance slide 5 “…it belonged to a Navajo man who had come to celebrate the Feast of San Diego.” Grey Slide Title Based on what you have read and the picture on this slide, what can you infer about the Feast of San Diego?

6. click arrow to advance slide 6 “It was one of two or three rangy animals following in the tracks of the man's covered wagon as he took leave of our village on his way home.” Grey Slide Title What can you infer about the Navajo man driving a covered wagon? What does this tell you about the setting for the story? “Navajo Wagon,” Robert Draper (Artist)

7. click arrow to advance slide 7 Grey Slide Title “Indian dogs are marvelously independent and resourceful, and they have an idea of themselves, I believe, as knights and philosophers.” From this quote, what can you infer about the narrator’ opinion of Indian Dogs?

8. click arrow to advance slide 8 Grey Slide Title “Indian dogs are marvelously independent and resourceful, and they have an idea of themselves, I believe, as knights and philosophers.” What characteristics do knights represent? What characteristics do philosophers represent?

9. click arrow to advance slide 9r Grey Slide Title “It was one of those unremarkable creatures that one sees in every corner of the world, the common denominator of all its kind.” What does the narrator mean by “the common denominator of all its kind”?

10. click arrow to advance slide “It was one of those unremarkable creatures that one sees in every corner of the world, the common denominator of all its kind. But on that day-and to me-it was noble and brave and handsome.” 10 Grey Slide Title Why did an unremarkable and common dog seem to be noble, brave and handsome to the narrator on that day?

11. click arrow to advance slide 11 “It was full of resistance, and yet it was ready to return my deep, abiding love; I could see that. It needed only to make a certain adjustment in its lifestyle, to shift the focus of its vitality from one frame of reference to another.” Grey Slide Title In one sentence, summarize the excerpt on this slide. What is the essence of this passage?

12. click arrow to advance slide “But I had to drag my dog from its previous owner by means of a rope. It was nearly strangled in the process, its bushy tail wagging happily all the while.” 11 Grey Slide Title Based on the above passage, what can you infer about the Indian Dog’s attitude? What can you infer about the narrator’s attitude?” Cite evidence to support your answer.

13. click arrow to advance slide 12 What does the narrator mean by “…I had read such a future in its eyes.” What is the literal meaning of this statement? How did the narrator know that the dog would be gone? Grey Slide Title “And the next morning the dog was gone, as in my heart I knew it would be; I had read such a future in its eyes.”

14. click arrow to advance slide “I was crushed at the time, but strangely reconciled, too, as if I had perceived intuitively some absolute truth beyond all the billboards of illusion.” 13 Grey Slide Title Definitions Reconciled – prepared to accept Perceived – seen or understood Intuitively – instinctively Illusion – deception or being deceived The definition of absolute truth-Whatever is true at one time and at one place is true at all time's and at all places. What is true for one person is true for all ...

15. click arrow to advance slide “I was crushed at the time, but strangely reconciled, too, as if I had perceived intuitively some absolute truth beyond all the billboards of illusion.” 14 Grey Slide Title Based on this definition of absolute truth, what do you think the narrator is trying to convey in this excerpt? The definition of absolute truth-Whatever is true at one time and at one place is true at all time's and at all places. What is true for one person is true for all ...

16. click arrow to advance slide “The Indian dog had done what it had to do, had behaved exactly as it must, had been true to itself and to the sun and moon.” 15 Grey Slide Title How had the Indian Dog been true to itself and to the sun and moon? What does it mean to be true to oneself?

17. click arrow to advance slide 16 “It knew its place in the scheme of things, and its place was precisely there, with its right destiny, in the tracks of the wagon.” Grey Slide Title “Navajo Wagon,” Robert Draper (Artist)

18. click arrow to advance slide 17 “Caveat emptor. But from that experience I learned something about the heart's longing. It was a lesson worth many times five dollars.” Caveat emptor = Latin for Buyer Beware Grey Slide Title “Navajo Wagon,” Robert Draper (Artist)

19. click arrow to advance slide 18 Caveat emptor. But from that experience I learned something about the heart's longing. It was a lesson worth many times five dollars. Grey Slide Title What was the lesson that the narrator learned? “Navajo Wagon,” Robert Draper (Artist)