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WU: Cultural Artifacts

If someone were to create a section in a museum dedicated to you and your culture, what artifacts would be in it? What items would represent you in a material, spiritual, and/or physical sense? Would these artifacts paint an accurate picture of you and your culture?

What is lost and gained in the creation of museums that attempt to preserve or represent culture/history?

Discuss: "Museum Indians" Focus on: mother and daughter relationship, cultural artifacts and their significance, city vs. native land (what=native land), key metaphors/symbols (snake=hair, buffalo=displacement from home, stolen dress=stolen culture)


 * Vocabulary for “Museum Indians”: **copy these down (or print and tape in) these vocabulary words

2) **Direct characterization**: **tells** the reader what the character is like **directly**—adjectives, statements about the character’s personality

3) **Indirect characterization**: **shows** the reader things that **reveal** the personality of a character through his or her: **speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, looks.** These are things that allow the reader to **interpret** the character’s personality.

4) **Metaphor**: Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things **directly**. One thing “becomes” the other without the use of the word //like, as, than,// or //resembles.// A metaphor can be **direct** (love **is** a red, red rose), **implied** (my love bursts into bloom), or **extended** throughout a passage or work.

He’s the bee’s knees. Love is a red, red rose. [The future] It’s a ripe fruit ready to be eaten **. **


 * J: Metaphor Practice **

Create an example of metaphor that explains how your day is going or mood right now.

For example:

Today was a tall glass of iced tea on hot summer day. AKA What a cool, refreshing, great day.

Yesterday was a nightmare that never let me wake up. AKA Yesterday was terrible and I never felt like I got anything right.

This morning, my bed was heaven, tempting me with warmth and dreams. AKA It was really hard to get up out of my nice warm bed this morning.

Turn in journals!

HW: On a separate sheet of paper, or on the text itself, identify (underline or copy down) 5 different metaphors. THEN, note the two things being compared and describe what the significance of the comparison is.

Ex.: Snake=braid. The author compares the mother's cut braid to a snake to show that even though it's cut, it still is "alive" in her memory and still represents the living heritage she values. It is important that it is cut because it shows that she felt the need to hide it away suggesting that maybe she received negative attention for it, and to assimilate, she felt the need to cut it off. It is just as important that she kept it because it show that it is still precious to her.