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Teaching Rules of the Game

Rules of the Game

A young Chinese American girl learns to play chess while navigating her relationship with her mother.

Amy Tan
"Rules of the Game" from THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan, copyright © 1989 by Amy Tan. Used by permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How can titles deepen our understanding of a story?
STANDARDS:

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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