*********************First Textual Analysis Post about Chapter 5

Hello Class,

In The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, by Jennifer 8. Lee, she talks about how one piece of information—lottery wins across our country linked to fortune cookie fortunes—inspired her to investigate her personal Chinese-American heritage.  Her in-depth look at her personal Chinese American heritage, as well as investigation on many aspects of this culture drive her book. 

FIRST TEXT ANALYSIS RESPONSE

Pick one line (sentence) from Chapter 5, or from your assigned blurb, that really stands out to you and makes you think about ONE of the following topics: Culture, Identity, or Family.

In a blog response, do the following:

1) Enter in the title of the post, : Culture, Identity, or Family– depending on which topic you have chosen.

2) Within the actual post, respond to the topic by re-stating your quoted line, and giving a detailed explanation of how you understand this line represents the general topic.

In this response, you must also spend only one brief paragraph summarizing the story to provide context for the quoted line (4 sentences), and then interpret the line in terms of what it says about culture, identity, or family)? (This should be another couple of paragraphs, at least 7-10 sentences. This is the bulk of your blog post. Make connections to yourself, and share your opinions. Always ask why you feel the way you do about the lines.) 

What do you learn from and/or feel about the line in our book?  How does this connect to yourself, what we've seen in the gallery, the film Beautiful Losers, or what you've talked about in your essays? 

After you are finished posting we will hear a few of your posts in class.

Ritual and Symbol as Related to your Culture

In The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Jennifer 8. Lee describes the customs found within the Chinese-American culture.  Customs can be linked to behavior, music, way of dress, food, language, and/or entertainment (i.e. theater, or dance). Describe thoroughly a scene in which you participated in a certain ritual, or enacted a custom linked to your own culture.  Set the scene, meaning show the reader how, why, where, when, and with whom you participated in this ritual or custom.

This entry should be complete, free of typos, with paragraph division.  It should tell the tale of you (the main character) going through the motions of this custom. This entry should be three or more paragraphs in length.

Your entry could have dialogue, vivid description, analysis, and/or a description about how you feel/felt before, during, and after participating in this culture's ritual.

Can you link your own culture's ritual to any of the rituals described in Chapter 1?

Welcome to ICW and our Class Blog!

Hello Class,

Welcome to our class blog.  We are going to spend time discussing the book, talking about our lives, and voicing our ideas here in written form.

For your first blog post, I want you to think about what culture you belong to, and describe your connection to it, focusing on how you participate in this culture.  In The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her connection to Chinese American culture.  Is culture something that you are born into, or choose?  We may be part of many different cultures.  Do you feel connected with the student culture? A certain art culture?  Skateboarding culture?  Yoga culture?  How so?  How ingrained, important, or influential is this one culture to you?

Take some time to share what culture you find yourself playing in a role in.  Describe it fully.  Remember that many of your classmates may not know what this culture is like.  Explain about it from your prospective.

Your entry should be three or more paragraphs.