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Good morning, everyone.
We’ll get started at 8:30.
Today’s agenda
1. Discuss Quiz #2
2. The Jade Peony Chapter 2
3. Continue with “Literary Terms”
4. HW Read JP Chapter 3 (28p) for Monday
If you go to college or university, you will be expected to read hundreds of pages a week.
The reading load can be overwhelming.
FREE ADVICE #10: Create a reading schedule- # of pages per day.
new book – X # of pages, Y # of days- schedule
e.g. 300 pages, want to finish it 12 days 300/12= 25 pages a day
Set aside time every day to get that 25 pages read, defend that time, no phone, no Youtube, No Snapchat
Do the reading, make notes in that time
Don’t wait until you have freetime. You have to defend time for your schoolwork.
e.g The Jade Peony Chapter 2, 28 pages – 7 pages per day for the next three days?
-14 pages per day for the next two days?
Quiz #2 – short paragraph (50-80w)
Email to me by 9:45am
Why was father worried about Wong Bak’s visit?
The work has to be in on time. If you can’t get it in on time, talk to me before.
A few people hadn’t read the chapter.
- any bookstore
- free online, links on blog
- borrow it from me
Topic sentence – addresses the topic directly
For a short answer answer like this, get right to the point.
no room for introductory comments: grabber, hook
- detailed, specific supporting sentences
e.g 1. Poh-poh’s close friend, not “lose face”
2. Wang Bak respected, elder, high esteem , Chinese culture
3. twisted face and body- children might stare, be afraid
1.
- Avoid plot summary. Don’t retell the story.
- Avoid first person “I”- You are not in the novel.
** Make sure each sentence is a real sentence: simple, compound, complex
Common sentence errors:
1. sentence fragments
2. run-on sentences
3. verb usage – verb form, verb tense!!
My internet at school is unstable today. The connection might be wonky.
Questions? Grammar? Sentences? Put in Chat:
1. What does it mean by RW AwK?
RW – rewrite This sentence that you wrote isn’t working well. Your idea is not coming across clearly. Try to express the idea in a different way.
awk – awkward, doesn’t really sound like natural English, sounds like a translation from your first language
**I am not trying to sound judgmental of your English skills. I just want to show you where you can improve.
2. Should we always use the past tense to answer the question?
Past tense is a good tense to use for answering questions about a novel- normally novels are written in past tense.
For my class, use past tense. For other classes, other teachers may want present tense.
3. “He was anixous that his family's members might show direspect by their behavior.”
“He was anxious that his family's members might show disrespect by their behavior.” noun clause
behaviors – XXX usually uncountable, behavior
disrespect (n) (v) disrespectful (a)
The teenager showed disrespect to his mother. noun
The teenager disrespected his mother. verb
The teenager was disrespectful to his mother.
SLANG – ‘dis’ disrespect (V) “That guy dissed me on Chatsnap.
Your example: The dude disrespectfully talked to the lady.
The dude talked disrespectfully to the lady. MORE NATURAL
verb + adverb
The little kid talked quietly. MORE NATURAL
The little kid quietly talked.
My JP Ch2 Lecture Notes
I read the chapter and highlight quotations that I think are important. If I was a student in English 11, I would use these as my study notes.
• -chapter 2 is about relationship between Poh-Poh and Jook Liang
complicated
“Sekky”, sickly baby brother, Sek Lung, afraid of TB- tuberculosis- disease of the lungs
Sek Lung – sick lung, a little inside joke by Wayson Choy
Poh-Poh dotes on Sekky, focussed on him – sick, a boy- cultural preference for boys
- lots of cultures values boys much higher than girls
Poh-poh has very sexist ideas, old-fashioned ideas, her culture
Poh-Poh grew up in a very tough childhood, passing some of that trauma to her granddaughter
“A girl-child is mo yung - useless” p28
tension between Poh-Poh and granddaughter
Wong Suk’s, Wang Bak “bandit princess” p30
understands her, fast friends
Poh-Poh very critical of Jook Liang
“lack of humility” “How can one China girl be Shir-lee Tem-po-lah?” p30
Jook Liang wants to be Shirley Temple, learn to dance, dress like her, models herself after her
“You China!”
Jook Liang is caught in the middle of two cultures
“Teach me, my heart said” p31
PohPoh abused as child, nearly slaps Jook Liang
“ No, no, no… No more teach!” p31
Poh-Poh has a lot of unresolved trauma
“Mo yung girl” p33
Wong Bak “bandit-prince in disguise” p35
PohPoh’s childhood “Too ugly” p38
“She was always saying something discouraging.” p39
stigma – a negative cultural shame
“When would her mo yung granddaughter learn not to tempt the gods.” P40
“We know world. No one spoil us.” p40
READ PARAGRAPH “I was happy...” p36
Jook Liang thought “I’m not ugly… I’m not useless.” p41, confident, strong
“I looked… seeking Shirley Temple… Something cold clutched at my stomach…” p41
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