Mon., 10/28 - Before you come to class, read chapter 1, “The Joy Luck Club” Focus your annotations on juxtaposition and identity. (Be prepared for a reading quiz!)
Tues., 10/29 - Before you come to class, read chapter 2, “Scar” (Be prepared for a reading quiz!)
Wed., 10/30 - Before you come to class, read chapter 3, “The Red Candle” (Be prepared for a reading quiz!)
Thurs., 10/31 - Before you come to class, read chapter 4, “The Moon Lady” (Be prepared for a reading quiz!)
NO vocabulary requirement this week! Focus on The Joy Luck Club! :)
Upcoming Due Dates:
Fri., 11/8 - Complete your reading of your IR#2 and post your video to Flipgrid! (instructions here)
Resources:
The Joy Luck Club reading calendar (here)
The Joy Luck Club Assignment Packet (here)
The Joy Luck Club full text PDF (here)
The Joy Luck Club Motif Journal Shell (here)
Monday, October 28
Learning Goal(s): Examine Tan’s use of juxtaposition and connect to author’s purpose.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.) 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 notes! (notes here, presentation here)
- Take the reading quiz on chapter 1, “The Joy Luck Club.”
- As a class, go over the Joy Luck Club packet of assignments and activities (here).
- Class mini-lesson to review juxtaposition (here), then complete the chapter one writing prompts (here) in groups of your choosing. Discuss concepts from chapter 1. If you have time leftover, begin reading chapter 2 (“Scar”), due tomorrow.
- Meet your JLC family!
- Begin tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue to follow the reading calendar for The Joy Luck Club.
- Begin researching articles for your chosen motif.
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
Tuesday, October 29
Learning Goal(s): Analyze a chapter for symbolism and contribute to a classroom discussion.
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. ELAGSE9-10RL6: 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
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens practice sentence for all three levels.
- Take the reading quiz on chapter 2, “Scar.”
- Complete yesterday’s work with chapter 1, “The Joy Luck Club” as needed.
- Introduce Foster’s concept of meals as communion and participate in a whole-class discussion. How does this perspective connect with other texts we have studied?
- Ponder and Respond: Consider An-Mei’s comment about scars at the end of Chapter 2 “Scars.” Since both An-Mei and Taitai (An-Mei's mother) suffer wounds that result in scars while in tentative contact with their mothers, examine the cause of the wounds and the connections to the mothers. What do these scars figuratively mean?
- If time, begin your reading of The Joy Luck Club, chapter 3 “The Red Candle,” due tomorrow.
- Begin tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue to follow the reading calendar for The Joy Luck Club.
- Begin researching articles for your chosen motif.
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
Wednesday, October 30
Learning Goal(s): Consider global perspectives on a social issue; consider how an author creates character and cultural perspective.
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. ELAGSE9-10RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens practice sentence for all three levels.
- Take the reading quiz on chapter 3, “The Red Candle.”
- Ponder and Respond: What is your view on arranged marriage? How does your view align with the "average American's" view? How do you think you would view it if you were a member of a culture that embraced this custom? Why?
- In groups, read the arranged marriages articles, view the clips from popular culture, and complete the "Viewpoint Matrix" graphic organizer.
- Clips from Arranged:
- Use these clips and the articles to complete the Viewpoint Matrix graphic organizer. (All sources here.)
- If time, continue reading The Joy Luck Club; chapter 4 (“The Moon Lady”) due tomorrow.
- Begin tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue to follow the reading calendar for The Joy Luck Club.
- Begin researching articles for your chosen motif.
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
Thursday, October 31
Learning Goal(s): Consider the same event told from different mediums and explore relationship between author's choices and audience. Consider global perspectives on a social issue; consider how an author creates character and cultural perspective.
Targeted Standards: 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. 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 - annotate the practice sentence for all three levels.
- Take the reading quiz on chapter 4, “The Moon Lady.”
- Compare the children's story version of The Moon Lady to the chapter “The Moon Lady.” Consider the two accounts: which details are emphasized in each? Why? How does the audience dictate author's choices? Be specific. Write a group CEI paragraph to explain your analysis.
- Read the prologue for part two, “The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates,” and analyze in whole-class discussion. Based on the prologue, make a prediction on part two of the novel.
- If time, begin reading YOUR FAMILY’S chapters from parts 2 & 3, due tomorrow.
- Begin tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue to follow the reading calendar for The Joy Luck Club.
- Begin researching articles for your chosen motif.
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
Friday, November 1
Learning Goal(s): 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 - annotate the practice sentence for all three levels.
- 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 write 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 three of the novel.
- Begin tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue to follow the reading calendar for The Joy Luck Club.
- Begin researching articles for your chosen motif.
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.