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Teaching Two Kinds

Two Kinds

The narrator's mother believes that she can be a prodigy in America, but the pursuit of these dream puts stress on their relationship.

Amy Tan
"Two Kinds" 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 right reserved.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How can we be "two kinds" of people at the same time?
STANDARDS:
RL.2 - Main Ideas, RL.3 - Characters & Plot, RL.6 - Point of View

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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