A Pair of Tickets
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Links and lesson Plans...
Summery of Story--http://study.com/academy/lesson/amy-tans-a-pair-of-tickets-summary-analysis.html The lesson plan that I have provided a link to has a presentation with ideas of what to discuss. Some of the topics are self discovery, the idea of Identity, history of Chinese culture along with social norms, and the some family structure information. This is very useful information and a good resource when discussing this story after students have read it. -- http://www.slideshare.net/MARIANA_M/a-pair-of-tickets- Some discussion questions to promote deeper understanding of the book and to expand of the presentation provided. How do the narrators names Jing Mei and June May relate to the story? What is so special about their names? Why does the story begin not in the united states or china but in Hong Kong? June May literally returns to her “mother land”, how is this element of the story modified by the fact all the Chinese place names have been changed since her mother left China? How does the setting of Mr. Woos story of her mothers escape from Kweilin relate to the various uses of setting in the story How are the relationships between “blood”, place, family, and identify define in the story? Explain the final sentence of paragraph 143 “After all these years, it can finally be let go” ALL Discussion questions from New Worlds Of Literature, A Pair of Tickets By Amy Tan |
About the Author: Amy Tan was born in the united states a few years after her parents immigrated from China. She published her first short story when she was 33 and wrote her first book when she was 34. When she was a child she moved every year from one neighborhood with her parents to another to finally settle in the Bay area.
More about her at : https://www.amytan.net/bio-1.html
More about her at : https://www.amytan.net/bio-1.html
ABALONE, ABALONE, ABALONE by Toshio Mori
About the Author: Yangsook Choi grew up in Korea and moved to New york to study art. She was named the best of the best by Chicago's public library.
Link about the author-- http://www.yangsookchoi.com/
Link about the author-- http://www.yangsookchoi.com/
Summery: The Book is about Unhei, a Korean girl who moved to america with her family. However, on her first bus ride to school kids asked what her name was, when she told them they couldn't pronounce it and made fun of her. When she got to class she was weary of saying her name for fear that the kids there would make fun of her as well. So, she told them she would tell them later. The students created a jar of names so she could choose one. However, none of them seemed like her. One day at the local store the owner greeted her by her name in front of one of her classmates. Her classmate her and pronounced her name wrong, she corrected him and he then pronounced it right. The next day when she arrived at school the name jar was gone and could not be found anywhere. Everything turns out though as she introduces herself to the class using her real name and correcting people until they get it right. Later, her friend Joey reveals that he stole the name jar so that she would stick with her real name. He then shows her his Korean nickname, which means friend.
What I love: I love that it teaches the students how hard immigration is. I love that it shows that she didn't even want to use her own name because other people might make fun of her so she had to choose one that didn't feel like her. I also loved how kind Joey was to her and how even one friend makes all the difference. I would use this to teach children that coming to a new place is hard and trying to make friends in the new place is even more hard when you don't even know how to introduce yourself. I want to use this because I think that its an important story to teach that different cultures are good because they bring different experiences, how to accept someone who is different from you, and how just making a small effort to say someones name correctly makes all the difference.
My objectives: I want my students to realize that having a diverse population is good because we can learn something new that would not have had us interested any other day. I also want my students to see how hard it can be to change names and how making such a small effort to say someone’s name right could go a long way. I will see if students have learned my theme by after watching the video and listening to how she says the name they participate and make an effort when we say the name together as a class.
Useful Links
This is useful to provide diversity in your teaching so instead of reading the book let students watch a video with someone else reading for a change.
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Lesson plans:
- http://www-tc.pbskids.org/lions/parentsteachers/pdf/RABC2-TheNameJar.pdf-- In this lesson plan there are a lot of activties but one that I love is having the students create their own name stamps with an apple or potato. The students will have to think about what they would like their symbol to be and what they want it to look like. After students have traced their name on the flat of a potato, they carve it out and stamp their paper. This lesson combines art and the story to allow students understand it even better.
- http://www.tolerance.org/exchange/name-jar-- This is another great lesson. First students will read the book, then we will discuss why assinging students new names could be a problem. After that have students think of up to 3 names (not of people in the class) after this everyone will draw a name out of the jar and thats their name from now on. At first it will be fun but by the end they will feel the effects of not having their birth name. This will teach the students empathy for what others go through when they must take on a new name.