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GrandHummingbird434 Answer the following questions related to “Superman and Me.” What…Answer the following questions related to “Superman and Me.”What is the main argument of this essay? What makes you think this is the main argument? (write a few sentences to support your interpretation).Pick two passages that are especially meaningful to you or that are important to explain the author’s argument. (A passage can be anything from a sentence to a paragraph. You don’t have to copy the whole passage but write down the first and last few words and the page number). For each passage, explain what it means and why it is interesting to you or how it helps us understand the author’s argument. Your explanation only needs to be two or three sentences.What is your opinion on the subject the author addresses? (three to five sentences)How did the text impact you? Did it remind you of something in your life? Something you have seen (a film or TV show)? Another text from the class? How? (three to five sentences)Pg. 1 In context what do you think Alexie means when he says that “a paragraph was a fence that held words.” How does literacy help him make sense of the world?Pg. 2 How do you interpret the following “If he’d been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy. But he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is simply an oddity.”Pg. 2 How do you interpret the following “Most lived up to those expectations inside the classroom but subverted them on the outside” What do you think that says about the education offered to Indian children at the time?Pg. 2 What is meant by “We were expected to fail in the non-Indian world.”What do you think is meant by the following phrase, and the way it repeats and changes through the last part of the passage. “I was trying to save my life” (2). “They are trying to save their lives (3). “I am trying to save our lives” (3).What do you think are the most important skills or knowledge for children to survive and thrive? How might they gain that skill or knowledge? Are there some special programs or ways that these resources could be made more available to kids?When did you know you wanted to go to college? Were there obstacles to getting here? How did you overcome those obstacles?Arts & HumanitiesEnglish