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Please take notes. from Blue Highways. Travelogue by WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON. Objectives. Appreciate a travelogue (Literary Analysis) (R3.0) Examine author’s purpose (Literary Analysis) (R2.5) Organize details (Active Reading) (R2.0). Words to Know. Pre ci pitately Adverb Steeply

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  1. Please take notes. from Blue Highways Travelogue by WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON

  2. Objectives • Appreciate a travelogue (Literary Analysis) (R3.0) • Examine author’s purpose (Literary Analysis) (R2.5) • Organize details (Active Reading) (R2.0)

  3. Words to Know

  4. Precipitately • Adverb • Steeply • Contempt • Noun • Scorn; disdain • Begrudge • Verb • To resent another person’s possession of something • Genetic • Adjective • Relating to genes; • The units that determine and transmit hereditary characteristics • Variant • Noun • Something that differs slightly from other of its kind

  5. Emergence • Noun • The process of coming forth or coming into existence • Evolve • Verb • To develop gradually • Materialism • Noun • A preoccupation with worldly rather than spiritual concerns • ethical • Adjective • Dealing with priciples of right and wrong; • Moral • theology • Noun • a system of religious beliefs

  6. SUMMARY

  7. During the author’s travels around the country, he spends the night on a mountain in Utah. The next morning, at a university cafeteria, he meets a Hopi named Kendrick Fritz, who is studying chemistry and wants to be a doctor. They discuss issues concerning Native Americans. Among other topics, Fritz talks about Hopi culture,

  8. explaining that it emphasizes harmony. He invites the author to his dorm room and offers him piki, a traditional Hopi corn bread. He explains that the Hopi believe that life is a series of jouneys and that humanity has evolved through four worlds. When the author asks if it is

  9. difficult for a Hopi to enter the technologically complex field of medicine, Fritz replies that the Hopi believe the spirit can go anywhere – that in fact the spirit is compelled to travel, change, and emerge anew.

  10. Thematic Link

  11. William Least Heat-Moon undertook his journey on the “blue highways” in order to encounter rural America. In his discussion with Kendrick Fritz, he explores the Hopi Way, discovering how a Native American combines modern and traditional ways of life.

  12. GRAMMAR

  13. COMPLEX SENTENCES • A complex sentence contains one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause. • A subordinate clause states an idea that is less important than the main idea of a sentence. • It often begins with a subordinating conjunction such as • after, although, because, if, since, when, whenever, where, or while, or that.

  14. ModelsUnderline the subordinate clause.

  15. Across the table sat Kendrick Fritz, who was studying chemistry. • He looked like a Hopi rather than a Navajo because he was small. • Although Heat-Moon could not get an interview in Tuba City, he could get an interview in Cedar City.

  16. Across the table sat Kendrick Fritz, who was studying chemistry. • He looked like a Hopi rather than a Navajo because he was small. • Although Heat-Moon could not get an interview in Tuba City, he could get an interview in Cedar City.

  17. Vocabulary Strategy

  18. PREFIXESSUFFIXESROOT WORDS

  19. History Cross Curricular Link

  20. THE INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT OF 1924

  21. By as early as 1917, two-thirds of all Native Americans in the United States has acquired citizenship by fulfilling certain legal requirements. The Indian Citizenship Act, passed in 1924, guaranteed United States citizenship to all Native Americans born within the

  22. boundaries of the United States. The New York Times observed the irony of this act in much the same way as Kendrick Fritz: “If there are cynics among the Indians, they may receive the news of their new citizenship with wry smiles. The white race, having robbed them of a

  23. Continent, and having sought to deprive them of freedom of action, freedom of social custom, and freedom of worship, now at last gives them the same legal basis as their conquerors.”

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