Prepare for a mid-unit assessment based on Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club with a brainstorming and discussion lesson plan. Focused on two chapters from the novel ("Rules of the Game" and "Two Kinds"), the lesson plan guides tenth graders through the preparation process for a writing prompt about either Jing-Mei or Waverly.

Concepts

the joy luck club, amy tan, reading comprehension, literary analysis, character development, central ideas, literary themes

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Allow learners to bring brainstorming materials or first drafts to the next unit's assessment
• Use the discussion questions in literature circles for small groups

Classroom Considerations

• The eighth lesson in a 14-part unit
• Provides a model tracking log; a blank version is available in the previous lessons or the attached complete unit file

Pros

• Encourages classmates to track character development as it relates to the central ideas of the novel
• Comes with multiple file versions of auxiliary materials, as well as the complete unit and full module files

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.3 W.9-10.9.a L.9-10.1.a L.9-10.1.b