Monday, Oct. 23 - Extra Credit Opportunity (10 points, Reading category): find a recipe for a traditional Ibo dish; prepare the dish; bring in your printed recipe.
Tuesday, Oct. 24 - Obtain a copy of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and bring to class!
Access The Joy Luck Club assignment packet here!
Red Ribbon Week!
Upcoming Due Dates:
Wed. & Thurs., Nov. 1-2 - Socratic Seminar on your family’s story in The Joy Luck Club
Friday, Nov. 10 - Two literary analysis paragraphs on The Joy Luck Club due
Monday, October 23
LG: Plan and write a literary analytical essay about Things Fall Apart in which you examine a character’s response to the cultural collision caused by the introduction of Western ideas into Ibo culture.
Standards: ELAGSE9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. a. Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. b. Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic. c. Use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and concepts. d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic. e. Establish and maintain an appropriate style and objective tone. f. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).
Agenda:
- Extra credit opportunity: Extra Credit Opportunity (10 points, Reading category): find a recipe for a traditional Ibo dish; prepare the dish; bring in your printed recipe.
- Complete Embedded Assessment 2: literary analysis essay on an character from Things Fall Apart. (Using the novel, your research, and your notes from the culture presentations, craft an essay in which you analyze how the cultural collision in the novel changes a character’s sense of identity, and explain how his or her response shapes the meaning of the work as a whole.)
- If time permits, watch Queen of Katwe. As you watch, compile a list of elements from the film that exemplify culture clash. Then, complete the following Ponder & Respond prompt: In Queen of Katwe, are the overall effects of the western cultural influences positive or negative? Based on all you’ve learned from our study of Things Fall Apart, is this a fair representation? Does the fact that this is a Disney movie affect your opinion? Why or why not?
- Homework: Your copy of The Joy Luck Club is due tomorrow in class. Be prepared to begin reading. Complete 45 minutes of Membean practice before midnight, Sunday, October 29th.
Tuesday, October 24
LG: Analyze the connection between a prologue and a larger work; Analyze for symbolism; consider how authors create tone through the use of imagery and setting through an analysis of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
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:
- Magic Lens - level 3 practice
- Begin The Joy Luck Club novel unit - complete the anticipation guide in IAN.
- Annotate your copy of The Joy Luck Club for chapter numbers and mother/daughter relationships
- Introduction to The Joy Luck Club activities - introduce packet and various assignments to be completed for the unit.
- Whole class: read and analyze the prologue “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away” - make a prediction: what will this novel be about?
- Students independently begin reading Chapter 1: “The Joy Luck Club.” Annotate for tone and setting for a class discussion tomorrow.
- Homework: Complete your reading of chapters 1-2 (pg. 16 - 48) by tomorrow. Complete 45 minutes of Membean practice before midnight, Sunday, October 29th.
Wednesday, October 25
LP: Analyze for symbolism; consider how authors create tone through the use of imagery and setting through an analysis of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
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:
- Magic Lens - level 3 practice
- In small groups, complete a butcher paper activity to analyze the setting and tone of chapter 1, “The Joy Luck Club.”
- Turn annotations into a product conveying setting and tone. Develop a claim statement to answer the following prompt: How does Amy Tan use setting to create a particular mood in “The Joy Luck Club”?
- On your paper - Draw the setting (either Kweilin or An-Mei’s house). Around the drawing, provide quotations (with lead-ins and citations). Then, write a claim statement that answers the question above.
- 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, continue your reading of The Joy Luck Club - chapters 3 and 4 due tomorrow.
- Homework: Complete your reading of chapters 3-4 (pg. 49 - 83) by tomorrow. Plan to pick a family story you would like to follow. Sign up tomorrow! (Only 8 students per family.) Complete 45 minutes of Membean practice before midnight, Sunday, October 29th.
Thursday, October 26
LG: 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.
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 - level 3 practice
- PICK YOUR FAMILY (Woo, Hsu, Jong, St. Clair)! First come, first served!
- 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:
- Clip from The Princess Diaries 2
- https://youtu.be/9oXiavlH55s (Start at 10:53 end at 13:31)
- Use these clips and the articles to complete the Viewpoint Matrix graphic organizer. (All sources here.)
- 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.
- Homework: Based on the family you signed up for, Complete your reading of your family chapter in Part two by tomorrow. Complete 45 minutes of Membean practice before midnight, Sunday, October 29th.
Friday, October 27
LG: 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.
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:
- write a 3-5 sentence summary of the chapter.
- connect your chapter to the prologue
- discuss the evolution Mother/Daughter relationship
- discuss a symbol (provide the context of the symbol, a visual, and explain its significance)
- EACH DAY you need to complete a different item in your group.
- Groups of five must ALSO complete the following item: discuss a Chinese tradition that is addressed in the chapter and compare and contrast it to American culture.
- 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.
- Homework: Complete your reading of your family chapter in Part 3 and 4 by Monday. Complete 45 minutes of Membean practice before midnight, Sunday, October 29th.