First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
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About the Author<br />
<strong>First</strong> <strong>Nation</strong> Short Story/Film Unit<br />
Dance Me Outside<br />
by W.P. Kinsella<br />
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William Patrick Kinsella was born on May 25, 1935, on a farm in Edmonton, in northern<br />
Alberta, Canada, the son of John Matthew and Olive Mary (Elliott) Kinsella. Kinsella did not<br />
attend school until fifth grade, but he caught up quickly and graduated from high school in 1953.<br />
After graduation, he worked at a variety of jobs in Edmonton. He was a government clerk, an<br />
insurance investigator, and then owner of a restaurant. He did not attend college until he was in<br />
his late thirties, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of <strong>Victoria</strong>, British<br />
Columbia, in 1974. He then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in<br />
1978 and taught English for five years at the University of Calgary, Alberta, from 1978 to 1983.<br />
About the Novel and Film<br />
www.enotes.com<br />
This Canadian drama based on a book by W.P. Kinsella, examines the tension between<br />
Indians and Anglos in Canada from an Indian perspective. Silas Crow, who lives on a Northern<br />
Ontario reserve, wants to take a mechanic's course in Toronto with his friend Frank Fencepost.<br />
But before he can enroll, the teen must write a short narrative describing his home. The film is a<br />
series of vignettes from Crow's narrative. The vignettes are alternately funny and poignant.
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