Exploring Identity and Culture Through Literature
Focus Text: The Awakening
Essential Questions:
1. How does your culture shape your identity?
2. How does literature teach us about our identities?
A. Opening Assignment: Grammar Book
Run-Ons
In your grammar book, complete exercise B on page 121. Revise the paragraph, correcting run-ons.
You must write the entire paragraph. When you are finished, you will place it in the basket.
This will be a separate daily grade (like a quiz).
B. Discuss graphic novels as a genre.
C. Introduce American Born Chinese (video clip and slide show).
D. Complete quick write prompts.
E. Watch “Strangers” (directed and created byErez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv).
Complete viewing guide.
Read Palestinian-Israeli Relations article.
F. Closing: Discuss The Awakening and the New American Notebook.