When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life—the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition—Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself, back and forth, between the worlds she straddles.
Through Kimberly’s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and a world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant—a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.
Taken from: http://jeankwok.com/book.shtml#girl
Through Kimberly’s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and a world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant—a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.
Taken from: http://jeankwok.com/book.shtml#girl
Issues addressed in the text will include:
* Immigrant rights
* Workplace exploitation
* Urban poverty
* Race
* Culture
* Identity formation
* The challenges facing immigrant youth - school, family and peer relations
* Immigrant rights
* Workplace exploitation
* Urban poverty
* Race
* Culture
* Identity formation
* The challenges facing immigrant youth - school, family and peer relations
Reading practices
Reading well requires numerous levels of understanding.
Each of these skills requires more complex thinking processes. We will be using Bloom's Taxonomy to understand this better.
Reading well requires numerous levels of understanding.
- First we engage in basic reading, which allows us to skim for information and imagine what is happening.
- Reflective reading is when you make sense of what is happening. You understand the logic and sequence of sentences of ideas. How these work together.
- Finally, analytical reading is when you bring external knowledge and information to the text. You can even begin to comment on the effectiveness of the work.
Each of these skills requires more complex thinking processes. We will be using Bloom's Taxonomy to understand this better.
Literature circles
OBJECTIVE: TO UNDERSTANDING HOW READING HELPS US TO ENGAGE IN CRITICAL THINKING AND REFLECTION. BY WORKING WITH YOUR PEERS, YOU CAN LEARN TO CONSTRUCT MEANING AND RESHAPE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF IDEAS IN LITERATURE.
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Racism in schools
First article:
Second article:
- The title, Race for Results, is a pun. Look up the meaning of pun, and explain the title.
- What is the main factor that influences a students academic results in America?
- What are some secondary factors?
- How is racism and discrimination present in American schools?
- How can this cycle be broken?
Second article:
- What life lessons do you think the principal is thinking will be learnt?
- Why do you think racism is often prevalent in sport?
- How has social media changed racism in school?