Having prepared for an analysis essay about one of the characters from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, tenth graders demonstrate their understanding in a mid-unit assessment. They focus on either Jing-Mei or Waverly in an informative writing assignment focusing on the text's central ideas. Additionally, learners begin reading an excerpt from H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights.

Concepts

the joy luck club, amy tan, reading comprehension, literary analysis, character development, literary elements, central ideas, textual evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Allow learners to write a draft of the essay in class before submitting a final assessment
• Set up peer editing groups with the attached checklist

Classroom Considerations

• Designed as an assessment for the first eight lessons in a series of 14

Pros

• Provides a writing analysis rubric as well as an editing checklist
• Includes an activity tool for the preface of the reading passage
• Connects the concepts from the previous lessons and assessment to the next reading assignment

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.2 W.9-10.2.a W.9-10.2.b W.9-10.2.f W.9-10.4 L.9-10.1.a L.9-10.2.a L.9-10.2.c