Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Author's Message
Read "I Stand Here Ironing" from The Joy Luck Club, and consider the message about motherhood.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Preface and Part One Evidence
Students gather evidence from the perspective of the narrator and gather additional evidence from the preface and part one from The Joy Luck Club and "I Stand Here Ironing" to support your answers to the discussion questions.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: I Stand Here Ironing
Ninth graders are introduced to the concepts of connections between mothers and daughters and how perception influences our understanding of each other by reading "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen.