Homework 5 - The Grand Dérangement II A) Watch the first 17 minutes of the documentary Acadia, Acadia?!? by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault (1971). https://www.nfb.ca/film/acadia acadia/ What did you find interesting or struck you in this excerpt? Explain your answer (2-3 sentences) The students have multiple pleas and demands, engaging in various ways to express themselves and/or take political action. Identify two of the students' demands and two of their modes of action (2-4 sentences). Keeping these examples in mind, reflect on the relationship between culture and power from the perspective of the students (2-4 sentences). The officials at the city council express various political positions and are associated with different symbols of power. Identify two of the officials' political positions and two symbols of power (2-4 sentences) Keeping these examples in mind, reflect on the relationship between culture and power from the perspective of the officials (2-4 sentences). At the city council, there are multiple acts of resistance from the part of the students, some minor and some more important. Identify two of these acts of resistance and analyze their significance. (3-5 sentences) B) Read the selected passages from the poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847), and answer the following questions: According to you, what are the two words that best describe how Acadie is imagined and represented by the poet in the prelude? For each word, explain your answer, and cite specific passages from the text as examples (2-3 sentences per word). How does Canto 2 compare to the Prelude in terms of the emotions they convey? Explain your answer, and use specific literary choices made by the poet to justify your answer (think of metaphors, imagery, rhymes, choice of words or specific sentences) (2-3 sentences). What happens to Evangeline and Gabriel's love story in Canto 5? What does that tell us about the fate of the Acadian people from the point of view of the poet? (3-5 sentences) To what extent do you think the poem accurately represents the historical events it evokes? Are there elements that might romanticized, exaggerated, or idealized for artistic or ideological purposes? (2-5 sentences) C) Read the short bio of our next guest Eloïse Leblanc, a poet, scholar, and cultural activist from Acadie. Prepare two questions along the following lines. (N.B. The ability to ask relevant and well-informed questions plays an active part in the set of skills of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, which this Culture and Context course is designed to introduce to you. Please use your knowledge of the topic to inform well-oriented questions). A question related to specific aspects of the Acadian world: culture, politics, demography, society, history, artistic legacy, or other (historical Acadia or today's realities). In other words, think of a question you would ask any Acadian who knows about the history of Acadie and its state in today's world. A question more directly focused on her perspective or her work as a poet, cultural activist, and scholar whose work is tightly linked to the history and contemporary realities of Acadie today./nINSTRUCTIONS Each section has instructions, the link is provided for the first part. The reading references are attached for the second and third parts. Each question states how many sentences needed in the answer. Answer on same document.

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