2006-8-11 Group 12

The Bracelet

Deep understanding of the text: the theme of the story

Language study: words, phrases, sentences, grammar items

Writing techniques: the length of sentence, the use of words, psychological description, etc

Teaching Goals

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Class Organization

Warm-up & Preview 1.5hours Textual analysis 3 hours Discussion & Revision 1.5hours

Three stages

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Stage One

Presentation

Lead-in questions

Brief introduction

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Task One: presentation

Several students are asked to do presentations by choosing one of the following topics:

The Japan and US relationship after Pearl Harbor Air-raid

The attitudes and reactions of Americans towards Japanese after the air-raid

The situation of American Japanese in the US after the incident

About the author

Yosiko Uchida was born in 1922 in Alameda California and spent most of her life in Berkeley before passing away in 1992. She contributed many books to the world of childr

en's literature, focusing the themes of them on the Japanese-American experience, especially interment of Japanese-Americans in camps during WW II. She knew little about Japanese language but was regar

ded as the symbol of Japanese culture by mainstream America.

Her autobiography The Invisible Thread – the powerful memoir of a girl consigned to a concentration camp – by the US government.

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Task Two: Background information

the author, Yoshi

ko Uchida

Pearl Harbor, a cli

p of the movie

Task three: Lead-in questions1. Do you know any modern wars, such as

WWI and WWII?

2. What do you think about the impact of modern wars to the people involved in?

3. Have you ever read the story written by this author?

4. Does the bracelet have any symbolic meaning? What is it?

Stage two: detailed Stage two: detailed

studystudy Structure of the story: 4 parts

Plot and characterization: 3 major characters

Textual analysis: expressions, sentence patterns, grammar

Artistic devices: psychological portraying, contrastive description, etc

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Textual analysis

Useful expressions: pick up fix up leave behind,at war; bean-curd cakes (typical Japanese food); FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Sentence pattern(s):

Papa could be no more dangerous than the Major of our city…

Grammar item(s): Subjunctive mood

If Papa had been home, he would have cut the first iris blossom …

Stage Three

Discussion on the theme of the storyRetelling the story in the mouth of the motherDoing a quiz based on the text