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Lesson 12: (Summary Lesson)
The Sound of Waves:
What is traditional Japanese culture?
Guiding Question:
Who are the Japanese?
Performance Objectives
Students will be able to:
- identify traditional
roles of men and women in this culture
- compare and contrast
initial impressions of the Japanese in the first chapter with their
final Impressions
- evaluate the role
that economics plays in the life of the characters
- design final projects
Procedure
Working in triads, ask students to share initial impressions that they wrote
in their literature logs in Lesson 1.
- What additional
insights have they developed as a result of reading this novel?
- Based on their
reading of the novel, what impressions were accurate? Inaccurate?
Explain the role that
economic realities play in the lives of the characters in this novel.
- How do their financial
situations limit or restrict their choices?
Compare the images of
the traditional roles of men and women that emerge in this novel. Organize
students into response groups. From what you have learned about Japan both
in this novel and in your social studies class, discuss the following question:
- In the contemporary
world the women's role has changed. To what degree can you assess that
change?
Distribute the
Final
Project Worksheet. Review instructions,
discuss and brainstorm possibilities.
Assign due date and format.
Summary
The only thing that really counts in a man is his get-up-and-go. If
he's got get-up-and-go he's a real man... Family and money are all secondary...
And that's what he's got - Shinji - get-up-and-go.
- Do you agree with
Terukichi's statement that "family and money are all secondary" in regard
to marriage? Why/Why not?
- Do you think
Hatsue and Shinji will have a successful marriage? Explain. What advice
would you give them?
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