Indigenous writers

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Hello everyone and welcome to the module for our midterm! It will be open from 4:30 pm until 7:30 pm today, June 4th. Remember to hit submit before it closes, as the module will close promptly at 7:30.

Write an essay response to ONE of the prompts provided. Your response will be evaluated based on content, form, close reading, thoughtfulness, quotation integration, clarity, and grammar/spelling/punctuation.

The paper should be approximately 400-500 words long and must follow MLA citation guidelines. The paper must contain the following elements:

– An introduction (including a clear thesis statement), conclusion, and main discussion section of 3-4 paragraphs.

– Remember to support your ideas with close reading and specific evidence

– Include a minimum of two direct quotations from the text. (Don’t forget in-text citations!)

– Remember: a summary ≠ an essay

OPTION 1:

In “Just Don’t Call Us Late To Supper,” Chelsea Vowel writes that, in reference to Indigenous peoples, we should use the word peoples vs. people (10). Since the word people is already plural, this can be confusing. Write an essay that explores why she makes this distinction. Why is it especially important when referring to Indigenous groups?

OPTION 2:

In “Semiotics for Beginners,” Daniel Chandler reports that “[Roland] Barthes saw myth as serving the ideological interests of the bourgeoisie” (16). Write an essay that explores this idea by denaturalizing the famous image of the young black soldier (14). What is its denotation vs. its connotation? How might bourgeois ideology be being transmitted through this image?

OPTION 3:

In Chapter 13, Vowel writes that “the idea that Canadian society is evolving and progressing is an important part of the colonial imaginary. The myth is that progress is tied to the passage of time, thus, things are always inevitably getting better” (119). What is the “colonial imaginary” and why does it rely upon locating “injustice in the past, and only rarely in contemporary contexts” (120)?

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This assignment will accept submissions from Thursday, 4 June 2020, 4:30 PM
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Due date Thursday, 4 June 2020, 7:30 PM
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