Comic based off of "A True Diary of a Part Time Indian"
Recently, we read the book "A True Diary of a Part Time Indian". The book has many illustrations and pictures, but unlike most books, these illustrations are comics drawn from the perspective of the main character, Junior. Our teacher immediately noticed this and crafted a project where we make our very own full comics. The book's comics describe Junior's life. To mix things up, we each made our comics about the specific things that caused Junior's and other American Indians' lives to be the way it is.
bibliography and artist's statement
you can find my complete bibliography here.
My comic is about the racism that almost all natives had to face day to day. Racism was a big problem mainly due to the fact that a lot of the white people believed that America was not the Native Americans' land and that they were less of a person than the whites. Other reasons include white supreme groups whose reasoning is unexplained. The effect racism towards Indians had on the world is pretty impactful. Being that they were one of the first groups to be degraded for their skin color, they were a sort of basis for all other racism. The factor of my comic I am most proud of is the drawings. Of my many strengths, drawing humans and living creatures is not one of them. I feel that I improved this over the period of time in which I created the comic. My biggest challenge, accordingly was drawing the live things in the comic. I can produce features such as a house or object, but not humans. I overcame this by continually redrawing parts of the people until I felt they were perfect. If I were to do this again, I would definitely keep a record of what I already completed and what I still need to complete. We were supposed to do this but I faltered. I now see the importance of it and would do it next time. Lastly, I can apply this to my internship because I an interning at a DIY facility that has many drawing and computer based tools and machines. This could be very helpful to me when I want to print off of the 3D printer.
Poet Laureate Project
Hello! This year, I am on the Corner/Patton/Morrisette/Leader team and our first big project was to write poetry for the poetry laureate project. In this project every person made a poem and an explanatory essay . The book produced will be sold to make more copies that will in turn fund itself. I worked very hard to understand more types of poetry and their respective meters to rhyme schemes. The essay is the description of the event to add more insight to it. The purpose of this project was to study different historical events through different perspectives.
Below is my final poem, explanatory essay, power point and a few other items.
Final Poem
Perspective: William Clark
Meter: Iambic quatrameter on every first line followed by Iambic Pentameter
Form: Terza Rima
Explorers Feelings
We came to you for your husband
He was needed for our expedition
Quickly you became my inquisition
Your whole family packed up and joined us
Off we went into the beyond
Searching for promising new land out west
Out my eye was on you thinking the best
You were a token of good luck for us
But a lady to call my own
That thought had not come about yet
Of all women I’ve met, I’d never let
A lady like you get away from me
You became very close to me
We got to know each other like siblings
We even shared interest in some things
I knew in my mind that you were all mine
We met the tribe of the Shoshone
They supplied us with horses and supplies
Toussaint was unneeded and said goodbye
You followed in suit and went to your tribe
As help for me, your son was loaned
But i realized I had just been friend-zoned
Explanatory Essay
When we were asked to write a poem that commemorated an important US event, lots of ideas for different events rushed to my head. There were thousands of things I could write about. Then I was told what years I had to work with. I researched what big events had happened in these years and all my results were boring. Really boring. But one event struck me. The Lewis and Clark Expeditions were on my list and almost instantly, I knew it was this that I wanted to commemorate. For one thing, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Clark were big time explorers and I absolutely love to go exploring and be outside and find new places. Also they, with others, helped to get the USA to buy the land I now sit on. If it weren't for them, lord knows where I would be right now. So with those two key relations, I set out to think about what I could say about them.
The goal of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to both study the Pacific Coasts’ plants animal life and geography of both scientific and commercial purposes. As quoted by Jefferson, ”One major goal is to find the most direct and practical source of water communication across this continent for the purpose of commerce”. Another task included researching the resources found in the recently purchased Louisiana Territory. The first thing Mr. Lewis and Mr. Clark did was to prepare themselves for the fields they would be covering. Clark spent months learning about geography and astronomy while Lewis prepared tons of supplies for them including tons of gunpowder and firearms that could kill deer.
The journey begins with William Clark leading a party of 33 people from a “base camp called Camp Dubois in the Illinois Territory on May 14th. They met up with Meriwether Lewis in St. Charles, Missouri and proceeded to follow the Missouri River westward. In August, they got as far as the Great Plains where they established relations with as many native tribes as possible. This was very risky business and resulted in not-so-positive results a lot of the time. Bonding with these tribes was vital though, for they provided food and directions that prevented them from getting lost in the Rocky Mountains.
In the winters time in 1804, they built a fort in what is now North Dakota. They encountered many fights and many “almost fights”. In Mandan, they camped for a couple days and met Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife, Sacagawea. The couple accompanied them along the majority of the trip as translators. The group continued to follow the Missouri River to its end and then went down a network of many rivers in canoes. They then continued to survey land all around them. when winter came and they had gathered lots of research, they took a vote on whether the group wanted to rough out the snow or head back home. It was decided they would head back home. Partway through their journey, Lewis and Clark decided that at a certain point, they should split the group into half and each go explore different areas to cover more ground. During their separate parts of the journey, they both narrowly escaped native attacks and finally reconnected and headed on into st. Louis to report what they recorded during the entire trip. This event is extremely important in US history because the two explorers basically helped the president claim what is now the entire west coast and found tons and tons of new species. They also reported on the Louisiana Purchase which was an extremely large purchase that helped America to more than double in size!
the perspective i chose on this poem is from Mr. William Clark. H talks about his relations with Sacagawea. I chose this perspective because I am fairly good at comedy writing and I thought it would be fun to put a twist on the view of the trip.
I wrote the poem in a Terza Rima Form. i chose this form because it honestly looked like the simplest form to follow. Its meter is slightly confusing; every first line is in Iambic quatrameter followed by three lines of Iambic Pentameter.
Presentation
Below is my final poem, explanatory essay, power point and a few other items.
Final Poem
Perspective: William Clark
Meter: Iambic quatrameter on every first line followed by Iambic Pentameter
Form: Terza Rima
Explorers Feelings
We came to you for your husband
He was needed for our expedition
Quickly you became my inquisition
Your whole family packed up and joined us
Off we went into the beyond
Searching for promising new land out west
Out my eye was on you thinking the best
You were a token of good luck for us
But a lady to call my own
That thought had not come about yet
Of all women I’ve met, I’d never let
A lady like you get away from me
You became very close to me
We got to know each other like siblings
We even shared interest in some things
I knew in my mind that you were all mine
We met the tribe of the Shoshone
They supplied us with horses and supplies
Toussaint was unneeded and said goodbye
You followed in suit and went to your tribe
As help for me, your son was loaned
But i realized I had just been friend-zoned
Explanatory Essay
When we were asked to write a poem that commemorated an important US event, lots of ideas for different events rushed to my head. There were thousands of things I could write about. Then I was told what years I had to work with. I researched what big events had happened in these years and all my results were boring. Really boring. But one event struck me. The Lewis and Clark Expeditions were on my list and almost instantly, I knew it was this that I wanted to commemorate. For one thing, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Clark were big time explorers and I absolutely love to go exploring and be outside and find new places. Also they, with others, helped to get the USA to buy the land I now sit on. If it weren't for them, lord knows where I would be right now. So with those two key relations, I set out to think about what I could say about them.
The goal of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to both study the Pacific Coasts’ plants animal life and geography of both scientific and commercial purposes. As quoted by Jefferson, ”One major goal is to find the most direct and practical source of water communication across this continent for the purpose of commerce”. Another task included researching the resources found in the recently purchased Louisiana Territory. The first thing Mr. Lewis and Mr. Clark did was to prepare themselves for the fields they would be covering. Clark spent months learning about geography and astronomy while Lewis prepared tons of supplies for them including tons of gunpowder and firearms that could kill deer.
The journey begins with William Clark leading a party of 33 people from a “base camp called Camp Dubois in the Illinois Territory on May 14th. They met up with Meriwether Lewis in St. Charles, Missouri and proceeded to follow the Missouri River westward. In August, they got as far as the Great Plains where they established relations with as many native tribes as possible. This was very risky business and resulted in not-so-positive results a lot of the time. Bonding with these tribes was vital though, for they provided food and directions that prevented them from getting lost in the Rocky Mountains.
In the winters time in 1804, they built a fort in what is now North Dakota. They encountered many fights and many “almost fights”. In Mandan, they camped for a couple days and met Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife, Sacagawea. The couple accompanied them along the majority of the trip as translators. The group continued to follow the Missouri River to its end and then went down a network of many rivers in canoes. They then continued to survey land all around them. when winter came and they had gathered lots of research, they took a vote on whether the group wanted to rough out the snow or head back home. It was decided they would head back home. Partway through their journey, Lewis and Clark decided that at a certain point, they should split the group into half and each go explore different areas to cover more ground. During their separate parts of the journey, they both narrowly escaped native attacks and finally reconnected and headed on into st. Louis to report what they recorded during the entire trip. This event is extremely important in US history because the two explorers basically helped the president claim what is now the entire west coast and found tons and tons of new species. They also reported on the Louisiana Purchase which was an extremely large purchase that helped America to more than double in size!
the perspective i chose on this poem is from Mr. William Clark. H talks about his relations with Sacagawea. I chose this perspective because I am fairly good at comedy writing and I thought it would be fun to put a twist on the view of the trip.
I wrote the poem in a Terza Rima Form. i chose this form because it honestly looked like the simplest form to follow. Its meter is slightly confusing; every first line is in Iambic quatrameter followed by three lines of Iambic Pentameter.
Presentation