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Student JournalCode Talker
By Joseph Bruuchac
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Code TalkerReading Log
Keep track of what chapters must be read by what dates and what assignments must be completed by when. This “Reading Log” will help to keep all important information and dates organized.
Code Talker By Joseph Bruchac
Code Talker Must be read by: Assignments: Must be completed by:
Introduction & Chapter 1
Chapter 2 & Chapter 3
Chapter 4 & Chapter 5
Chapter 6 & Chapter 7
Chapter 8 & Chapter 9
Chapter 10 & Chapter 11
Chapter 12 & Chapter 13
Chapter 14 & Chapter 15
Chapter 16 & Chapter 17
Chapter 18 & Chapter 19
Chapter 20 & Chapter 21
Chapter 22 & Chapter 23
Chapter 24 & Chapter 25
Chapter 26 & Chapter 27
Chapter 28 & Chapter 29
Author’s Note
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Getting Started
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Introduction
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Introduction: Key Concepts
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Introduction: Key Concepts
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Chapter Response QuestionsIntroduction to Chapter 9
As you finish reading each Chapter, answer the following Questions. Make sure that your answers are writing in complete sentences and that you use details from your reading to support your answers.
Introduction
1. What question would you ask the author about why he narrated the story, calling the readers, “grandchildren” ?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What connections and information do you have about your own family’s veterans (awards, medals, recognition) as they relate to this story? (These connections may increase as you read the story). What military involvement, if any, does your family have? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 1
1. What was The Long Walk?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How is the wood sliver, tipped with his blood that he leaves behind, symbolic? Identify the effect of literary devices (e.g., figurative language, allusion, diction, dialogue, description, imagery).____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Chapter 3
1. What were the physical and emotional responses Ned experienced when his hair was cut? How does he know how the other girls and boys feel in the story? Why is the act of getting a haircut painful to the Navajo students of this story? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Summarize why so many Navajo families have the last name of Begay according to the story? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 4
1. **** Before you read, predict what the title of this chapter, “Tradition is the Enemy of Progress” might mean? Why do you think the author titled this chapter this way?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Name supporting details that refer to how Ned found comfort after being punished forspeaking Navajo? Why do you think his great-grandfather's words might have come back to him on the day he left home ? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What are some of the other forms of punishment students received for speaking Navajo? Can you infer or find other evidence that this may have happened to Montana Indian students for speaking their Native language at boarding schools?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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4. In this chapter, the author uses the analogy, “of how teachers tried to erase (Navajo) – the way you wipe words from a blackboard.” Create your own possible analogy for how the teachers tried to erase (Navajo).____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 5
1. Name two good things that were available in Ned's high school; name several challenges Ned had that made him choose only one?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 6
1. Name or write specific word phrases of the Navajo Tribal Council resolution onAmericanism of 1940 that Ned might have underlined (page 34, hardcover); why did helike their words? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What does the word “Americanism” means. What does it mean to you? How might your meaning differ from Ned’s? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What events happened in Ned's world on December 5 and December 7, 1941?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Chapter 7
1. List several reasons why Navajo men did not know how far away Pearl Harbor was?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Name the Axis powers – why are they called this? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Which paragraph/page supports initial discrimination against Indians by the U.S. Armed Forces? When did this change for Navajos? Was it equal for all? Why did it change?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 8
1. Compare what a Navajo already knew how to do - with what a Marine recruit needed to learn. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What does Ned see himself being and doing at the end of this chapter? Is it realistic?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Chapter 9
1. What three things did Ned learn that were different from what he learned in boarding school?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Reading Check: Chapters 1- 9
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Chapter Response Questions
Chapter 10 to Chapter 14
As you finish reading each Chapter, answer the following Questions. Make sure that your answers are writing in complete sentences and that you use details from your reading to support your answers.
Chapter 10
1. Compare and Contrast the Navajo men's trip to Fort Defiance with the Navajo people on the Navajo Long Walk. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What are some aspects that you might like or dislike in boot camp, using the likes and dislikes of Ned and his fellow Marines?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 11 & 12
1. List a reason or belief Ned has to support how tough and determined the Navajo Marines were? What did their Navajo elders teach them about the ways of warriors?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What new experience was so amazing to Ned after years of boarding school memories of NOT using Navajo language?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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3. Name the qualities Ned displayed toward the pride he had in becoming a code talker. Name specific things Ned and his fellow Navajo code talkers remembered. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Describe the difference between having pride and being self-important, according to the narrator.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 13 & 14
1. What can you, the reader infer about the impression (on Ned) from the statement from Sam, "When we saw them, we realized that our enemies were just human beings,” might have made?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Reading Check: Chapters 10 – 16
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Chapter Response Questions
Chapter 16 to Chapter 18
As you finish reading each Chapter, answer the following Questions. Make sure that your answers are writing in complete sentences and that you use details from your reading to support your answers.
Chapters 16 -18
1. What are some of the things Ned changed his mind about and things he learned as he went. Name specific skills he needed to survive and do his job as a code talker?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. In Chapter 18: Bougainville, after reading his letter from home, what significant act does Ned do in place of not being able to go home? Name the event that will take place and why Ned wants to do this?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 19
1. What is the description grandfather uses to tell about the effects of war on the Navajo code talkers? What act does Ned perform to balance the worry of war with the Navajo Way?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Chapter Review: Chapters 17 - 21
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Chapter Response Questions
Chapter 28 to Chapter 29
As you finish reading each Chapter, answer the following Questions. Make sure that your answers are writing in complete sentences and that you use details from your reading to support your answers.
Chapter 28 -29
1. Paul and Rex sent messages about what they saw after the two atomic bombs had fallen; describe what they saw. What did Ned do after receiving those messages?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What does it mean to be prejudiced against someone and or have stereotypes of a culture of people? List some reasons the bartender was prejudiced and if this could/could not happen today?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. From 1943-1969, Navajo Code Talkers (over 400) were not allowed by the military to speak of their role and pride as Code Talkers in the Marines; it was top secret. What inferences can be made about how things might have been different for them, their families and communities if they had been allowed to gain the pride and honor and speak about their duties, training, and responsibilities?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. After 1969, when the work of the code talkers was declassified and they were finally given recognition, what did Ned believe was more important than any praise?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Chapter Review: Chapters 22 – Author’s Note
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