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//The Woman// //Warrior// by Maxine Hong Kingston []

Hello! As inspiring educators, we understand how difficult it can be finding teaching materials that benefits each students in a way that the students are able to take something away from each lecture. We are here to lend a helping hand and hopefully make the load a little lighter for you. Here we have chosen to help out with Maxine Hong Kingston's novel //The Woman Warrior//. You will find a few lesson plans we have summarized what you can expect from them as well as included a few of your own lesson plans that we have creatively put together. We hope you find something useful to use in your classroom that are beneficial to each of your students. //**Lesson Plans**// [] This a great lesson plan to use for high school students. It is more a class discussion lesson plan that includes topics like being a Chinese-American student in America and Women's Liberal Movement, which are two minority issues that many people face. This lesson plan can tie historical issues to the novel as well as getting a understanding of the students perception of the novel on a more intense level. [] This website is heaven sent! It broadens the subject of the novel, where African American and Latino women can be used in placed of Chinese-American women to help relate to the students more. If you were to chose to use this website, it should be targeted towards a more mature group such as 11th and 12th grade high school students. It features lesson plans if you were interesting in dissecting the novel chapter by chapter, but it also gives lessons plans if you were to teach the novel together. There are assignments included as well like journal entries. Please be aware that this website does include other novel. If you wanted to assign the novels that are intertwined with the website there are lesson plans and activities for those, but if you choose not to, just ignore those sections and take what you need from the website. [] This website great for finding open ended essay questions. Although, it is often used by students themselves, they offer summaries of the chapters in the novel, if you were interested in doing briefings when discussing the novel. The website offers a quiz and a glossary, which would be great if you wanted to include vocabulary to your lesson. This website if great if you wanted to just use it as it is or help to formulate ideas of your own. (If you click the picture, it take you to another lesson plan creatively put together to help even more) Works Cited Ahokas, Pirjo. "Maxine Hong Kingston's //The Woman Warrior//: Constructing a Female Chinese-American Subjectivity." //Nordic Journal of Women's Studies// 4.1 (1996): 3-15. Rpt. in //Short Story Criticism//. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 136. Detroit: Gale, 2010. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. < [] >.

Chua, Soon-Leung, and Margaret Pho Choo Chua. //CliffsNotes on The Woman Warrior.// 23 Apr 2012. < [] >.

Garner, Shirley Nelson. "Breaking Silence: //The Woman Warrior//." //The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism//. Ed. Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Frances Murphy Zauhar. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993. 117-125. Rpt. in //Short Story Criticism//. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 136. Detroit: Gale, 2010. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 4 May 2012 < [] >

Johnston, Sue Anne. "Empowerment through Mythological Imaginings in //Woman Warrior//." //Biography// 16.2 (Spring 1993): 136-146. Rpt. in //Contemporary Literary Criticism//. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Polly Vedder. Vol. 121. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 4 May 2012. < [] >

Lim, Jeehyun. "Cutting the tongue: language and the body in Kingston's The Woman Warrior." //MELUS// 31.3 (2006): 49+. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. < [] >.

Ling, Amy. //Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)//. 23 April 2012.< [] >.

Nishime, LeiLani. "Engendering Genre: Gender and Nationalism in 'China Men' and '//The Woman Warrior,//'." //MELUS// 20.1 (Spring 1995): 67-83. Rpt. in //Contemporary Literary Criticism//. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Polly Vedder. Vol. 121. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 4 May 2012. < [] >

Shu, Yuan. "Cultural politics and Chinese-American female subjectivity: rethinking Kingston's Woman Warrior." //MELUS// 26.2 (2001): 199+. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 4 May 2012.< [] >

Outka, Paul. "Publish or Perish: Food, Hunger, and Self-Construction in Maxine Hong Kingston's //The Woman Warrior//." //Contemporary Literature// 38.3 (Autumn 1997): 447-482. Rpt. in //Short Story Criticism//. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 136. Detroit: Gale, 2010. //Literature Resource Center//. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. < [] >.

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