Paper on Theory or Orality
Due: October 5
Weight: 25%
Length: 750-1000 words (not counting title or works cited)
Topics:
• A topic of your own choosing. It must be focused on one of the texts studied in these sections.
• Compare and contrast Basil Johnston’s and Daniel Heath Justice’s characterization of academic discourse.
• Music in “La Beau Sha Shoo.”
• Creation stories in “The One About Coyote Going West” and/or “Is that all there is:
Tribal Literature.”
• Compare and contrast Maria Campbell’s and Louise Halfe’s use of Cree-English.