Are you reading Sherman Alexie's novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, with your students? If so, then you MUST show them the film Smoke Signals. Smoke Signals (1998, PG-13, 89 minutes) is based on a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, and is a brilliant complement to Alexie's YA novel.
The film has characters that have remarkable resemblance to the characters in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, specifically Junior and Rowdy. Many of the issues the young men, Tho