Sun. 9/18—Membean practice due.
Mon. 9/19--Read through chapter 8 of The Joy Luck Club.
Fri. 9/23--The Joy Luck Club Literary Analysis II (character development and theme paragraphs); early turn-in for The Joy Luck Club Scholars’ Journal entries (15 entries from 10 chapters)
Read online at The Joy Luck Club pdf.
*Vocab. Study Plan: Complete Membean practice in 15 minute increments or less.
Monday, September 19
LG: Understand author’s rhetorical strategies in literary works, focusing on word choices and how they develop character and create meaning/theme.
- Submit Literary Analysis paragraphs
- Complete last two Poetry Out Loud presentations
- Invitation to Notice: Parallel Structure
- Review chapters 1-8 of The Joy Luck Club, focusing on setting, mood, and diction.
- Begin working on family portrait assignment and construct family trees
- Students will work to analyze several aspects of character development, motivation and connection to themes in the novel
- JLC family portrait assignment
- Read/analyze chapter 9: “Rice Husband” ; complete dialectical journal entries.
Tuesday, September 20
LG: Understand author’s rhetorical strategies in literary works, focusing on word choices and how they develop character and create meaning/theme.
- IAN: Ponder and Respond: Is Rose in any way responsible for Bing’s death? Consider what June explains in "The Joy Luck Club" about her childhood responsibility for the Hsu children. How does "Half and Half" fit into the larger context of the novel, and what does it teach readers about An-mei Hsu?
- Read and analyze “Rice and Rose Bowl Blues” by Diane Mei Lin Mark
- Complete TPFASST on the Poem and answer the questions that follow on the handout
- Continue building family portraits
- Read/analyze The Joy Luck Club chapter 10: "Four Directions"; complete dialectical journal entries.
Wednesday, September 21
LG: Understand author’s rhetorical strategies in literary works, focusing on word choices and how they develop character and create meaning/theme.
- IAN: Ponder and Respond—At the start of “Without Wood,” Rose tells of her believing in her mother’s tales of ghosts and magic because “the power of her words was that strong.” At the end of the story, when she tells Ted he can’t throw her away, he looks confused and scared: “The power of my words was that strong.” What does this repetition show about mother and daughter and East and West?
- IAN: List ways in which parents and children embarrass one another. How do cultural and generational differences affect parent/child relationships? Use at least three Membean words and three verbals.
- Family portraits due today - complete your family tree.
- Present the Woo Family and Hsu Family Trees
- Read/analyze The Joy Luck Club chapter 11 "Without Wood" ;complete dialectical journal entries.
Thursday, September 22
LG: Understand author’s rhetorical strategies in literary works, focusing on word choices and how they develop character and create meaning/theme.
- Practice with verbals!
- Computer Lab: compose journal entries and literary analysis paragraphs.
- Read/analyze The Joy Luck Club chapter 12: “Best Quality”; complete dialectical journal entries.
- (If time)
- IAN: The Garden of Marriage—Tan uses garden and weed imagery to show the condition of Ted and Rose’s marriage in “Without Wood.” Even Mr. Chou is incorporated into the image pattern. Trace the images through Rose’s story and decide what each images represents and how it fits into the pattern. Consider what the former condition of the garden shows about Ted; what the present condition reveals about Rose; what the imagery suggests about the future of their marriage. Explain how hulihuda connects to the imagery. What is the significance of Rose’s final dream? Her name?
Friday, September 23
LG: Understand author’s rhetorical strategies in literary works, focusing on word choices and how they create meaning/tone.
- IAN: An-mei’s mother tells her about the turtle that eats tears and knows a person’s misery. The tears produce magpies, birds of joy. She says, “Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else’s joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.” Pick from one of the following women in the novel to explain how they “swallow their tears”: Suyuan, Taitai, An-mei, Lindo, Ying-ying, Lena, Rose, or Waverly.
- Peer review literary analysis paragraphs in your Chinese family groups.
- View The Joy Luck Club, comparing/contrasting the film director’s techniques with the author’s techniques for building setting, mood, tone, character, and theme.
SEPTEMBER BREAK!
Honors World Literature October 3-7
Planning Your Week:
No Membean practice required! (Earn extra credit if you choose to do practice this week.)
Mon. 10/3--The Joy Luck Club Scholars’ Journal entries (15 entries from 10 chapters) if you did not participate in early turn-in.