Today, we discussed the difference between plot and theme. We focused on the different themes or big ideas from our book Cheyenne Again. Please write about some of the themes you discovered in your reading with your partners or what we read-aloud and give examples. For example, one theme was about treating the Indians unfairly in school when they taught them lies or left out important facts about their culture and some of the battles they had won. Please write three to four sentence with the correct punctuation.
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| This is a picture of an off-reservation Indian boarding school!!! |
I think that getting sent to boarding school,even if your parents do not want you to go is just unfortunate. I also think it is unfair. There were a lot of themes of fear in this book. One was the fact that you are getting sent away from your parents at a young age to a boarding school where they are teaching you against your religion. I think that whatever your religion is, people should value it instead of trying to change it.
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DeleteI did not really like that book because it was sad. I don’t think that is fair to just be sent to boarding school. It is not fair that children just ben taken away from their families. I feel so bad for them. Like why would they send them to boarding school when their teaching them against your religion.
ReplyDeletethat book was not one of the niced book I have read. The people took him away from his family.It is not nice. they just cmd to people's homes and take people away from there family. I feel so bad for them.Why would they send him to bording school if they did not half to. I think the father did the rong thing.
ReplyDeleteIt is unfair for Native Americans to have to act like a white person. White people shouldn't be able to tell Native Americans how to act, or look, or be. It is unfair for the kids to be taken away from their parents just to make them act like other people. Why do they need to cut their hair and put them in uniforms? Why can't they just wear their clothes?
ReplyDeleteI think it is very unfair that the white men are taking them away from their parents and sending them to boarding school to make them more like themselves. I don't think they should take them away from their loved ones and home. I think they should be left alone and be able to continue the things they have done before like roaming in the wild.
ReplyDeleteOne of the themes was fear in the book. For example, when the mother said to Young Bull "run, run, run away" and then the father said, "no, stay" so he can learn how to live in the white mans world. It was sad because when Young Bull had to leave his family and go live at a school, he was scared. I think the white men should leave the native americans alone and not force the kids to go work for white men and leave their family and dress a certain way and cut their hair a certain way. The Native Americans should be free.
ReplyDeleteI think the white men are unfair. They think that they are the only ones that matter. They don't care about the indians. Because of the white men almost indian tribes are close to being extinct! Some even are! And they wouldn't like it if some random guy with a gun took them away from their family! They don't have any idea what school is and the white men don't add that the indians won some battles in the schoolbooks. The white men are treating the children like slaves mostly. They have to go even if their parents refuse. they are taking the indians natural land. They are mean
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ReplyDeleteThe white men were also teaching the indians agenst their religion. THEY NEED FREEDOM!!!! THEY NEED THEIR NATURAL LAND BACK!
ReplyDeleteOne of the themes me and my partner thought of were sacrificing. We got this from the page were little bull was giving up his cloths and hair. Also there was homesick. Little bull to me felt homesick on every page of the book. I would love to one day act like a Native american.
ReplyDeleteMe and Mary Kate thought of a theme and it was embarrassed. Because when the owner of the school said "You want too be a dumb indian all your life in front of everyone. I think it is a very harsh book BYE.
ReplyDeleteI thought the book was very sad because they made the boys shirts really
ReplyDeletetight and it made the boys choke. They made the boys speak english
even know they didn't want to. Little Bull was sacrificed his clothes and hair. Those are my themes. I can't wait to finish the book.
My group talked about how the white settlers treated the Indians very unfair and we thought that young bull was sacred. And how terrified he was when he was taken away from his parents and put in boarding school. I would be terrified if that happened to me. And we also talked about how harsh the teacher was when he or she said "You want to be dumb Indian all your life?" That's all I can remember right now so BYE!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think the story so sad. I don't think it was right for the dad to let them take him off to boarding school. It was wrong for them to change his clothes and hair. The way he was treated was so unfair and wrong.
ReplyDeleteThis book was very unfair to the Native Americans. They didn't like indians because they were different from them. That's like saying that everybody has to be the same. Some of the themes were, unfairness, loneliness, fear, and harshness.
ReplyDeleteI think it was unfair because the boy had to become a white person.
ReplyDeleteAnd that the white people had to wear close that went up to there neck.
The white people that treated the Indians bad in school should not of treated the indians bad.I really liked the book.
At the begening of the book it was kind of sad becouse he got sent of to bourding school. The theme of the book was the dad let him go to bourding school. And i think that he felt lonley and homesick me and my partner thought that it was'nt fair!
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for Little Bull and his mother in Cheyenne Again. They tell him that he will speak English now. Then in school they talk about the wars they won and their culture. They left Little Bull's culture out. "I will be lonely
ReplyDeletehere," Little Bull says to himself. That theme is loneliness. It wasn't that
fair for Little Bull. Unfairness is the other theme for Little Bull.