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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
2006-8-11 Group 12
Class Organization
Warm-up & Preview 1.5hours Textual analysis 3 hours Discussion & Revision 1.5hours
Three stages
2006-8-11 Group 12
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