Monday, 3/18 - Ibo cultural presentations and annotated bibliographies due - please bring in a typed, printed copy of your annotated bibliography to class, have a copy of your presentation in one partner's Google HWL folder, and submit a copy of your annotated bibliography to TurnItIn.com. (assignment and rubric here)
Tuesday, 3/19 - Acquire a copy of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club before class today
Wednesday, 3/20 - Before you come to class, read chapter 1, “The Joy Luck Club”
Thursday, 3/21 - Before you come to class, read chapter 2, “Scar”
Friday, 3/22 - Vocabulary Unit 4 assessment
Friday, 3/22 - Before you come to class, read chapter 3, “The Red Candle”
Upcoming Due Dates:
Friday, 4/12 - Complete your reading your IR #2 by today. Create and post your Flipgrid video (handout 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, March 18
Learning Goal(s): Submit your annotated bibliography and present your research findings with the class.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10W6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. ELAGSE9-10SL4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development,substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. ELAGSE9-10SL5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. ELAGSE9-10SL6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grades 9–10 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.) ELAGSE9-10SL2: Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.
Agenda:
- Submit your printed annotated bibliography to your teacher and present your Ibo cultural presentation to your classmates! assignment and rubric here). Submit your annotated bibliography to TurnItIn.com by midnight tonight.
- JLC Reading - Use the reading calendar (here) to complete assigned reading each night
- Study your unit 4 vocabulary words for the quiz on Friday, March 22
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
Tuesday, March 19
Learning Goal(s): Analyze for symbolism; consider how authors create mood through the use of imagery and setting through an analysis of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
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:
- Complete Ibo cultural presentations as needed.
- Begin The Joy Luck Club novel unit - complete the anticipation guide in IAN.
- Introduce the JLC unit calendar and assignment packet (packet here)
- Annotate books for structure and character relationships.
- Read and discuss the prologue for Part One, “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away.” Analyze the connection between a prologue and a larger work.
- JLC Reading - Use the reading calendar (here) to complete assigned reading each night
- Study your unit 4 vocabulary words for the quiz on Friday, March 22
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
Wednesday, March 20
Learning Goal(s): Analyze for symbolism; consider how authors create mood through the use of imagery and setting through an analysis of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
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:
- Complete analysis of the prologue for Part One, “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away,” as needed.
- Quiz on chapter 1.
- In small groups, complete a butcher paper activity to analyze the setting and mood 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.
- All groups share their claim statement and three pieces of evidence.
- Begin reading chapter 2, “Scar” (due tomorrow).
- JLC Reading - Use the reading calendar (here) to complete assigned reading each night
- Study your unit 4 vocabulary words for the quiz on Friday, March 22
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
Thursday, March 21
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:
- Introduce Magic Lens level three notes
- Quiz on chapter 2.
- 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.
- JLC Reading - Use the reading calendar (here) to complete assigned reading each night
- Study your unit 4 vocabulary words for the quiz on Friday, March 22
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th
Friday, March 22
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:
- Take the vocabulary unit 4 quiz.
- 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 Monday.
- JLC Reading - Use the reading calendar (here) to complete assigned reading each night
- Continue reading your second independent reading book and planning your Flipgrid review (handout here), due Friday, April 12th