Red scarf girl free pdf download

To start Unit 2 (Literature from China, Japan, & India), we will be studying Red Scarf Girl, a memoir written from the perspective of a year old girl living in China during the Cultural Revolution. It is not a difficult book to read-- while the book was written when Ji-Li Jiang was an adult, she wrote it in the way the average pre-teen girl would. The difficult part is understanding the things happening in Ji-Li's world as she describes them. Children and young adults often rationalize very complex things and try to explain them in easier ways. As we read, we will study the concept of an unreliable narrator and how people write about difficult times in their life. 

During this unit, you won't turn in things every day as we have done previously. We will keep a character log and a response journal as we read and turn that and the vocabulary in at the end of the study of this text. Part of your grade will be professionalism, so be sure to keep all your class notes neat, clean, and legible. 

Please bring the following items to class EVERY DAY while we read Red Scarf Girl: 

Please check back here to get copies of assignments and view slides from class lectures. 

John Green's Crash Course Video on China's Revolutions. For our purposes, begin watching at unless you want to learn more about China's history prior to Mao Ze Dong.