Sunday, March 25 - 45 minutes of Membean due today before midnight
Thursday, March 29 - Submit your FINAL copy of Things Fall Apart essay to TurnItIn.com before midnight
Monday, March 26 - Sunday, April 8 - NO MEMBEAN REQUIREMENT! Extra credit opportunity: practice for 45 minutes during this two-week window to receive 10 extra credit points in the vocabulary category.
Please continue to follow The Joy Luck Club reading calendar! (also in packet)
Upcoming Due Dates:
Tuesday, April 10 - JLC Socratic Seminar in class
Wednesday, April 11 - JLC Assignments A (motif journals) & B (seminar questions) due to TurnItIn.com (assignments here)
Friday, April 13 - JLC literary analysis paragraphs (Assignment D) due in class for peer review
Thursday, April 19 - final copy of JLC literary analysis paragraphs due to TurnItIn.com before midnight
Monday, March 26
Learning Goal: Complete an in-depth analysis of a chapter in The Joy Luck Club. Collaborate with peers to enrich your interpretation of the author’s purpose.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and closely analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens - level 3 practice
- Meet in family groups to complete Assignment C for your chapter in part two of the novel.
- Assignment C: Family Chapter Presentation (30 points - Speaking and Listening)
- Divide a large piece of butcher paper into thirds. On ONE third, complete the following items for each of your assigned chapters in parts 2-4 of the novel:
- Provide the chapter title and narrator
- write a 3-5 sentence summary of the chapter
- connect your chapter to the prologue for the novel section (ex: “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away”
- discuss the evolution Mother/Daughter relationship
- discuss a symbol (provide the context of the symbol, a visual, and explain its significance)
- Select ONE sentence/short passage from the chapter that you feel most effectively communicates a theme for the chapter, then weite a theme statement (use IAN)
- discuss a Chinese tradition/belief/value that is addressed in the chapter and compare and contrast it to American culture
- EACH DAY you need to complete a different item in your group.
- Divide a large piece of butcher paper into thirds. On ONE third, complete the following items for each of your assigned chapters in parts 2-4 of the novel:
- Assignment C: Family Chapter Presentation (30 points - Speaking and Listening)
- Read the prologue for part three, “American Translation,” and analyze in whole-class discussion. Based on the prologue, make a prediction on part two of the novel.
- Things Fall Apart essay - keep working on revisions; final copy due Thursday to TurnItIn.com before midnight
- JLC reading - keep up with reading schedule found in packet
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your JLC family, due 4/11
- Membean Extra Credit - There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 3/26 and 4/8).
Tuesday, March 27
Learning Goal: Analyze Amy Tan’s purpose and the development of her themes in parts three and four of the novel; work collaboratively in small groups to reach deeper understanding.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. ELAGSE9-10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. ELAGSE9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens practice - level 3
- Meet in groups to complete Assignment C (chapter analysis on butcher paper) for your family’s chapters in parts 3 & 4. Be ready to present your group’s work on all three chapters tomorrow!
- Introduce parallelism through a mini-lesson with the prologue for “Queen Mother of the Western Skies” (presentation here)
- Things Fall Apart essay - keep working on revisions; final copy due Thursday to TurnItIn.com before midnight
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your JLC family, due 4/11
- Membean Extra Credit - There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 3/26 and 4/8).
Wednesday, March 28
Learning Goal: Students complete the jigsaw activity of The Joy Luck Club by presenting their analyses of assigned families.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. a. Come to discussions prepared having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas.
Agenda:
- Magic Lens practice - level 3
- Groups present on their chapters; audience asks questions to build on their own understanding from the jigsawed content. Take notes on the provided graphic organizer (here) to prepare for the seminar.
- Things Fall Apart essay - keep working on revisions; final copy due TOMORROW to TurnItIn.com before midnight
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your JLC family, due 4/11
- Membean Extra Credit - There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 3/26 and 4/8).
Thursday, March 29
Learning Goal: Students take notes on other families from The Joy Luck Club to prepare for a seminar. Use text evidence to analyze Tan’s use of setting/mood and theme.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. a. Come to discussions prepared having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas.
Agenda:
- Things Fall Apart literary analysis (rubric here) due to TurnItIn.com before midnight tonight.
- Magic Lens practice - level 3
- Groups complete presentations on their chapters; audience asks questions to build on their own understanding from the jigsawed content.Take notes on the provided graphic organizer (here) to prepare for the seminar.
- Review Assignment D (literary analysis paragraphs) from the packet.
- If time, begin planning/drafting your literary analysis paragraphs and/or adding to your motif journal (Assignment A).
- Things Fall Apart essay - keep working on revisions; final copy due TODAY to TurnItIn.com before midnight
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your JLC family, due 4/11
- JLC literary analysis (Assignment D) - continue to develop these for peer review 4/13.
- Membean Extra Credit - There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 3/26 and 4/8).
Friday, March 30
Learning Goal: Use text evidence to analyze Tan’s use of setting/mood and theme.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
Agenda:
- Plan and draft your literary analysis paragraphs and/or add to your motif journal (Assignment A).
- Vanbo: Lab 816
Homework:
- JLC motif journal (Assignment A) - continue tracking quotations on your three assigned motifs for your JLC family, due 4/11
- JLC Socratic seminar questions (Assignment B) - write five questions for use in the seminar on Tuesday, 4/10
- JLC literary analysis (Assignment D) - continue to develop these for peer review 4/13.
- Membean Extra Credit - There is no Membean requirement this week, but you can earn 10 extra credit points by completing 45 minutes of practice either this week or next (between 3/26 and 4/8).