Introduction
Iris D. Zucker, Morris High School

"With all my heart I beseech and beg my twenty million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women arise!" Qiu Jin (1875-1907)Stories of the Jinguei Bird.

The text chosen for the lessons was taken from the following collection of Chinese Women's literature: Writing women in modern china: an anthology of women's literature from the early twentieth century / edited by Amy D. Dooling and Kristina M. Torgeson; Columbia University Press, 1998.

This packet contains five standards-based lessons, intended to be used at the high school level in English Language Arts and/or English as a Second Language advanced-level classes. Each of the five lessons has a series of vocabulary, active reading, critical thinking and interpreting.

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