Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

 

DUE THURSDAY NIGHT:

Email 5 questions about money and politics to Martha by Thursday night.

Three questions should be about the movie and two questions should be taken from your own research on money and politics.

DUE FRIDAY:

1^st Paragraph of your 5-paragraph essays on graphic novel

WHAT IT NEEDS TO INCLUDE:

1)         Thesis Statement (title of work, author’s name)

2)         If needed, an explanation of thesis

3)         Short summary of the story (2 sentences at most)

4)         State your three points.

In Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, the author uses darkness to suggest the characters’ sadness. (1) Throughout the narrative, Yang uses a multitude of colors to suggest teen-age life but often he depicts characters who are in pain amidst a black background. (2) Jin Wang, a Chinese-American, struggles with his ethnicity in a predominantly white school. Before he can learn to be comfortable with his true self, he ignores others of Asian heritage and does everything he can to assimilate completely into white culture. (3) Several times during the narrative, he is depicted as walking or existing in darkness, including a moment when he is rejected by a white girl, when he is ridiculed by bullies and when he is rejects his best friend who is also of Asian descent. (4)

DUE FRIDAY:

For writing class: Read and Critique "The Oven is Always Bigger in the Next Restaurant" and "The Way I Learned to Be Free".