Girl in Translation online lesson

Today:
  • Descriptive language and narrative voice
  • Girl in Translation discussion  
  • Point of view writing exercise 
  • Feedback questionnaire  
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This lesson contains 11 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Today:
  • Descriptive language and narrative voice
  • Girl in Translation discussion  
  • Point of view writing exercise 
  • Feedback questionnaire  

Slide 1 - Slide

"Curt the one with hair like a lion's" p.128

Slide 2 - Open question

"The rounded backs of the vacant chairs formed a field of doubt before me."(188)

Slide 3 - Open question

"I felt as if I were a scarecrow in a high wind" (p.188)

Slide 4 - Open question

Slide 5 - Slide

Which narrative voice is used in GIT and what effect does it have on you?

Slide 6 - Open question

popular, wealthy, creative, arrogant
Who is this?

Slide 7 - Open question

likable, hard-working, independent, caring, poor

Slide 8 - Open question

loyal, kind, reliable, naive

Slide 9 - Open question

Writing task:
Respond to the following quote, writing from the point of view of Kimberly’s mother. Write for 10-15 minutes without stopping and without caring too much about grammar or spelling, this is about getting ideas on paper!
“But most things hadn’t changed, they’d simply become routine. I grew into the space that Ma’s foreignness left vacant. She hadn’t learned anymore English, so I took over everything that required any kind of interaction with the world outside of Chinatown.” (page 155)
Questions to help get you started: How would Ma describe her own position? How does she see her life in New York / Chinatown? If Kimberly has grown into her space, does Ma feel like she has shrunk?
Upload to itslearning!!

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To do:
  • Complete feedback questionnaire - link is on itslearning 
  • Writing task: write a response to a quote from Kimberly's mother's point of view. Write for 10/ 15mins without stopping, do not think too much about grammar / spelling etc - upload text to itslearning. 
  • Read chapters 12, 13 & 14 for next week 

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