We began today with a discussion of the first short story in the second section of JLC. After that, students took their vocabulary quizzes (the scores from first period looked phenomenal – I’ll post a distribution tomorrow!).
Homework for tonight is JLC Reading Guide 6 (jlc-rg-6-the-voice-from-the-wall).
Students talked about “The Moon Lady” in class today in their groups. We used the second half of class to go over the JLC Vocabulary List 2, which will be on your quiz on Monday (and to students’ delight, there will NOT be grammar on Monday’s quiz).
Homework for the weekend is to read the next story in the book and complete the individual portion of the reading guide (jlc-rg-5-rules-of-the-game).
Just as a reminder, we’ll have an extra credit film to watch tomorrow after school. It should be over by 5:15 PM. You can check out the trailer here:
Today we discussed last night’s chapter from JLC and continued the rhetorical analysis of The Rape of Nanking. Tonight you should read the short story “The Moon Lady” and answer the individual portion of the reading guide. I’m having trouble posting the file of that for some reason, but please email me if you need it, and I can send it to you that way.
EDIT: Update – here’s the reading guide for the fourth short story (jlc-rg-4-the-moon-lady).
As I mentioned in class, the West U Rotary Club is sponsoring a scholarship program to send students to other countries for either the summer or an entire academic school year. A representative from their organization will be coming to the Bellaire HS library to talk with interested students and parents on Thursday, October 13, at 6:00 PM. Please send me an email if you would like to attend so that I can make sure that we have enough copies of materials.
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:
Ms. Chapman's Class (Pre-AP) 
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