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See Summer Assignments for a look at what students are asked to do during the summer while they are reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
Alexie, Sherman, and Nancy J. Peterson. Conversations with Sherman Alexie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
Berglund, Jeff, and Jan Roush. Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2010.
Berglund, Jeffrey. "Facing the Fire: American Indian Literature and the Pedagogy of Anger." American Indian Quarterly 27.1 (2003): 80-90.
Bird, Gloria. "The Exaggeration of Despair in Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues"." Wicazo Sa Review 11.2 (1995): 47-52.
Bruce, Heather E., Anna E. Baldwin, and Christabel Umphrey. Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is Not a Silent Movie. Our Voices Will Save our Lives". Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2008.
Coulombe, Joseph L. "The Approximate Size of His Favorite Humor." American Indian Quarterly 26.1 (2002): 94-115.
Evans, Stephen F. "'Open Containers': Sherman Alexie's Drunken Indians." American Indian Quarterly 25.1 (2001): 46-72.
Grassian, Daniel. Understanding Sherman Alexie. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2005.
McFarland, Ron. "Teaching Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues"." Wicazo Sa Review 16.2 (2001): 139-147.
Copies of articles listed here may be found on the Common Reading Program SharePoint site.