JLC: The Plot Thickens
This is the shocking information that Jing-Mei receives at her first Joy Luck Club meeting.
Her mother had two surviving daughters who live in China, and Jing-Mei must go there and tell them about her mother, who has died.
This is the shocking information that is revealed to Jing-Mei in Chapter 1.
Her two sisters were alive in China. She had to go there and tell them their mother was dead.
Run-on, Fragment, or Correct?
Reading the story and answering multiple choice questions about it.
Fragment
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If you study this packet, you will get a good grade, however, if you don’t complete the preparation, you will not succeed.
If you study this packet, you will get a good grade; however, if you don’t complete the preparation, you will not succeed.
What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following quotation? Explain your answer.
“One day, as she struggled to weave a hard-toothed comb through my disobedient hair, I had a sly thought.”
Personification
What is special about Waverly?
She is a chess prodigy
This is what happens to An-Mei that results in a scar.
Her mother returned, made everyone at the dinner table angry, and a boiling pot of soup fell on her neck.
Run-on, fragment, or correct?
Although it never hurts to get a refresher.
Fragment
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We will receive the Study Guide on October 20, 2023, we will play review games on October 24, 2023, and we will take the test on October 26, 2023.
We will receive the Study Guide on October 20, 2023; we will play review games on October 24, 2023; and we will take the test on October 26, 2023.
What type of figurative language is demonstrated by the following quotation? Explain your answer.
“I would swing my patent leather shoes back and forth like an impatient child riding on a school bus.”
Simile
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This is why Suyuan created the Joy Luck Club.
During World War II, Suyuan was forced to flee her home to the city of Kweilin, where she met other women in similar circumstances. The conditions in Kweilin were awful due to overcrowding, bombings, and poverty, but these women tried to distract themselves by eating food and playing mah jong. Thus, the Joy Luck Club was formed.
This is what Waverly compares her relationship with her mother to.
a game of chess
Run-on, Fragment, or Correct?
We will play Jeopardy to review next class, so that should help you fill out this Study Guide.
Correct
Run-on, Fragment, or complete?
I hope that you remember what we read six weeks ago, it’s been a long time.
Run-on
What type of figurative language is demonstrated by the following quotation?
"To this day, I remember that crab screaming as he thrust one bright red claw out over the side of the bubbling pot.”
Imagery
This is why Popo hates An-Mei's mother.
After An-Mei's father died, An-Mei's mother married a man who already had a wife and two concubines. This dishonored their family, and she was forbidden to raise her daughter or enter Popo's house, as a result.
This is why Suyuan didn't eat the crab with the missing leg.
It was dead before she cooked it.
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We have read The Joy Luck Club to gain more perspectives on other cultures to learn how to identify figurative language and to challenge ourselves academically.
We have read The Joy Luck Club to gain more perspectives on other cultures, to learn how to identify figurative language, and to challenge ourselves academically.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
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Im excited to learn more about Amy Tans life and meet her other stories characters.
I'm excited to learn more about Amy Tan's life and meet her other stories' characters.
What type of figurative language is demonstrated by the following quotation? (there are two!!!) Explain your answer:
“The Hsu's house feels heavy with greasy odors. Too many Chinese meals cooked in a too small kitchen, too many once fragrant smells compressed onto a thin layer of invisible grease.”
Imagery and Repetition
Which crab did Jing-Mei (June) pick first?
She picked the one with the missing leg (so that everyone else could have "best quality.")
This is the "life's importance" that Suyuan gives Jing-Mei after the New Years dinner. Also mention what it represents.
A jade necklace; it represents Suyuan's "meaning," or tradition/culture/family values that are passed down from generation to generation. Just as the color of the jade changes as someone wears the necklace, a person is changed and molded by the teachings and values of their family.
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Amy Tan the author of The Joy Luck Club got much of her material from her own life.
Amy Tan, the author of The Joy Luck Club, got much of her material from her own life.
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Ive learned a lot about Chinese culture, and my students writing reveals theyve learned a lot, too.
I've learned a lot about Chinese culture, and my students' writing reveals they've learned a lot, too.
What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following quotation? Explain your answer:
"Her black men advanced across the plane. . . My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. . .I closed my eyes and pondered my next move."
Metaphor (relationship compared to a game of chess)