Mon., 11/4 - come to class having read your family’s chapters in parts 2 and 3 (to prepare for your family chapter poster and presentation)
Wed., 11/6 - come to class having read your family’s chapters in part 4 (to prepare for your family chapter poster and presentation)
Upcoming Due Dates:
Mon., 11/11 & Tues., 11/12 - Come to class prepared for the JLC Socratic Seminar! You need hard copies of your article, your motif journal, your questions, and (of course), the novel.
Tues. 11/12 - Submit your Motif Reader Response Journal and your discussion questions to TurnItIn.com before midnight.
Fri., 11/15 - Complete your reading of your IR#2 and post your video to Flipgrid! (instructions here)
Sun., 11/17 - Complete the Sadlier Connect activities on Unit 5 words
Fri., 11/22 - Vocab Quiz on Unit 5 words
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)
To-Do List for Socratic Seminar preparation (here)
Unit 5 vocabulary word list (here)
Monday, November 4 - PJ Day!
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 the family chapter presentation for your chapter in part two of the novel.
- Family Chapter Presentation
- 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:
- Family Chapter Presentation
- 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.
Homework:
- Continue to follow the reading calendar for The Joy Luck Club.
- Continue tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue researching articles for your chosen motif & completing Analyze This!
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
Tuesday, November 5 - NO SCHOOL!
Wednesday, November 6 - Decades Day!
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 groups to complete chapter analysis on butcher paper for your family’s chapters in parts 3 & 4.
- Introduce parallelism through a mini-lesson with the prologue for “Queen Mother of the Western Skies” (presentation here)
- If time, begin presentations!
- Continue tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue researching articles for your chosen motif & completing Analyze This!
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
Thursday, November 7 - TikTok Day!
Learning Goal(s): 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 - annotate the practice sentence for all three levels.
- 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.
- If time, continue working on motif annotations/reader response journal and Analyze This!
- Continue tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue researching articles for your chosen motif & completing Analyze This!
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.
Friday, November 8 - Class Colors Day!
Learning Goal(s): 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.
Agenda:
- Meet in the computer lab (Riley: 816; Vanbo: 113) to prepare for the Socratic seminar Monday!
- Use the To-Do List for Socratic Seminar preparation (here) to make sure you handle all required assignment elements!
- Finish writing your five seminar questions
- When you're finished, print a copy for use in the seminar
- Submit this to TurnItIn.com - due Tuesday, 11/12 by 11:59 PM.
- Continue your motif journal on three assigned topics - use the motif journal shell to type yours in!
- Print a copy of this to use during the seminar
- When it's edited and polished, submit to TurnItIn.com - due Tuesday, 11/12 by 11:59 PM.
- Continue working on Analyze This!
- Continue tracking motifs for your family chapters!
- Continue researching articles for your chosen motif & completing Analyze This!
- Continue reading your IR#2 book.