Read N. Scott Momaday’s essay “The Way to Rainy Mountain,” available at: www.b-g.k12.ky.us/userfiles/1049/The%20Way%20to%20Rainy%20Mountain.pdf

Attend close to ways that the speaker combines place, time and identity–even down to the paragraph and sentence level.  Momaday is like a few other writers (Emerson, for instance): If you can understand the workings of his typical sentence, you’ll see how it relates to the content points he’s making, those themes about the land speaking through the people.  It’s powerful stuff and we also see it in the course with the Joy Harjo poetry collection.