We continued our small group discussions of The Joy Luck Club today. For the second half of the period, students continued to work with their groups to do a rhetorical analysis of The Rape of Nanking. Homework for tonight is to prepare the individual portion of the discussion guide for the third short story, “The Red Candle” (jlc-rg-3-the-red-candle).

We had lively discussions today during the first half of class! For the second half, students read an excerpt from the book on the Japanese invasion of China during WWII, The Rape of Nanking (the-rape-of-nanking-reading) – we’ll be working in groups to analyze that tomorrow.

Homework for tonight is to read the second story in the book, “Scar,” and complete the reading and discussion guide (jlc-rg-2-scar).

Here’s the distribution of the quiz scores from today:

The average score was an 85.

We took our quiz over the first set of JLC words and all of the parts of speech today! Homework for tonight is the first reading and discussion guide for JLC, which I distributed and posted on Friday. Just a clarification – you only need to read the first story, which is (confusingly) titled “The Joy Luck Club.”

I would like to strongly encourage you to be able to identify these kinds of errors in preparation for your quiz on Monday:

1. capitalization of common/proper nouns error
2. gender bias error
3. subject-verb agreement error
4. consistency of tense error
5. irregular verb error
6. punctuation of adjectives error
7. adjective instead of adverb error
8. overuse of adjectives/adverbs error
9. pronoun-antecedent agreement error
10. pronoun subject/object error