Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: I Stand Here Ironing

Explore San Francisco's Chinatown in a lesson about the first few chapters of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Kids research Chinatown on the Internet and create a virtual tour of the neighborhood, including the foods, cultural events,...

Read "I Stand Here Ironing" from The Joy Luck Club, and consider the message about motherhood.

Students gather evidence from the perspective of the narrator and gather additional evidence from the preface and part one from The Joy Luck Club and "I Stand Here Ironing" to support your answers to the discussion questions.

We will read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and a series of related literary and informational texts to explore the question: How does a greater understanding of a person's life experiences change our perception of them? We will express...

Students read part four of The Joy Luck Club and examine how sharing life experiences with those we love can help change perceptions. Students also read "I Ask My Mother to Sing" to examine a male perspective on identity for Asian...

Understand how learning about the past in The Joy Luck Club allows the mothers and daughters to alter their perceptions of one another. Choose one mother and daughter's experiences from part four of The Joy Luck Club to use to support...

Ninth graders read part two of The Joy Luck Club and examine how the mothering style of the members of the Joy Luck Club affected their daughter's perception of mothers.

Use the question, How does a greater understanding of a person's life experiences change our perception of them? to prepare to read the Joy Luck Club.

React to part four, chapter four from The Joy Luck Club to establish an initial understanding of the text, specifically what messages the two letters Auntie Lindo wrote Jing-Mei's sisters.

Students publish final work to express their understanding of The Joy Luck Club.