Warm-UpGet out your Readers/Writers Notebook

Turn to an new page in your READING SECTION

Label it: Two Kinds / Rice and Rose Bowl Blues

Be prepared to write.

Quick Write(reading section)

What expectations do your parents have for you? Are they reasonable or unreasonable? Do their expectations affect how you behave and work in school?

PurposeTo look at themes across two

genres-poetry and short stories.

We will keep track of how characters change and how an author conveys a theme through characters, motivations, conflicts and setting.

Warm-UpGet our your Readers/Writers Journal

Turn to your graphic organizer for Two Kinds.

Turn to page 508 in the literature book.

Two Kinds by Amy TanPage 508 (three complete sentences per box)

Two Kinds

1. Main character’s traits, motivations and values.

2. How characters change and lessons they learn.

3. Internal and External Conflicts

4. Details of setting

5. Significance of story title

6. What is the theme of the story?

S.E.E. Report (Choose One question)

1. How are the two piano pieces like the two kinds of daughters?

2. How do the two pieces symbolize the narrator and her conflict with her mother?

3. What symbolic resolution to the two pieces of music provide?

Essay PromptWrite an essay detailing how the main

character in the short story Two Kinds changes over time. Be sure to support your thesis with evidence from the text. (1 page, 26 lines)

The change that occurred in the main character was….

At the beginning the character was…(with quotes and explanations)

By the end the character was….(with quotes and explanations)

This change conveys the theme of….

Paragraph 1: The change that occurred in the main character was…__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2: At the beginning the character was...__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 3: By the end the character was…__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 4: This change conveys the theme of…__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The change that occurred in the main character was….

At the beginning the character was…(with quotes and explanations)

By the end the character was….(with quotes and explanations)

This change conveys the theme of….

Paragraph 1: The change that occurred in the main character was…__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2: At the beginning the character was…__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 3: By the end the character was…__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 4: This change conveys the theme of…__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

FINDING

Q UOTES

Using quotesThe words that precede and follow a

quotation are just as important as the quotation itself.

You can think of each quote as the filling in a sandwich: it may be tasty on its own, but it’s messy to eat without some bread on either side of it.

Your words can serve as the “bread” that helps readers digest each quote easily.

Using Quotes-3 Tips 1. Provide context for each quotation.Do not rely on quotations to tell your story for you. It is your

responsibility to provide your reader with context for the quotation. The context should set the basic scene for when, possibly where, and under what circumstances the quotation was spoken or written.

2. Attribute each quotation to its source.Tell your reader who is speaking. Here is a good test: try reading your

text aloud. Could your reader determine without looking at your paper where your quotations begin? If not, you need to attribute the quote more noticeably.

3. Explain the significance of the quotation.Once you’ve inserted your quotation, along with its context and

attribution, don’t stop! Your reader still needs your assessment of why the quotation holds significance for your paper.

Using Quotes- ExampleWhen Franklin Roosevelt gave his

inaugural speech on March 4, 1933, he addressed a nation weakened and demoralized by economic depression. During his speech Roosevelt declared, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. With that message of hope and confidence, the new president set the stage for his next one-hundred days in office and helped restore the faith of the American people in their government.

Essay PromptWrite an essay detailing how the main

character in the short story Two Kinds changes over time. Be sure to support your thesis with evidence from the text. (1 page, 26 lines)

Write your essay on the paper provided.

Rice and Rose Bowl Blues- PoemPurpose

How are the narrators in the short story and the poem similar? How are they different?

How do the characters actions, values and motivations contribute to the theme?

Rice and Rose Bowl BluesPage 520“Rice and Rose Bowl Blues”

1. Words and phrases describing speaker’s thoughts and feelings.

2. Key images

3. Lines that present an idea or compare images.

4. Sound Devices

5. Significance of poem title.

What is the theme?

Two Kinds / Rice and Rose Bowl Blues

Who… Wanted… What…. But… So…

Who… Wanted… What… But… So…

Two Kinds

Rice and Rose Bowl Blues

Two Kinds / Rice and Rose Bowl BluesPoints of Comparison

In the Short Story In the Poem

1. How would you describe the main conflict?

2. What lesson does the narrator or the speaker learn?

3. What images strike you as important?

4. What ideas does the title emphasize?

5. Write a sentence stating the theme as you interpret it.

6. Which techniques are important to conveying theme?

Essay Prompt Compare and Contrast the themes in the

short story, Two Kinds and the poem Rice and Rose Bowl Blues. Be sure to discuss the importance of symbols, images, characters and conflicts in conveying the themes.