Day 4

The Joy Luck Club Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read “Queen Mother of the Western Skies.”

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.4

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Magpies

An-mei describes how she left her aunt and uncle’s home after Popo died. She goes to live with her mother, and she soon finds that her mother has the worst position in the house, that of concubine, not wife. Second Wife...

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