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A Quilt of a Country
Grade 9 Unit 1
Argument by Anna Quindlen
A Quilt of a Country

What have you learnt about America?

Do you agree with the notion that all men are created equal? Explain your reasons.

What was Anna Quindlen’s claim?
Gist-Reading































































































































































































































































































































































































































































What was Anna Quindlen’s claim?
America is an improbable idea, its not supposed to work but it does.






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































Gist-Reading

discordant adj. dis?cord?ant
unrelated; out of place
Wordsheet
pluralistic adj. plu-ral-is-tic
having multiple parts or aspects
diversity n. di?ver?si?ty
variety of different ethnic or cultural groups
mongrel n./adj. mon?grel
a dog that is a mix of several different breeds
calico n./adj. cal?i?co
printed cotton cloth
brocade n./adj. bro?cade
fabric with raised patterns in gold or silver

bigotry n. big?ot?ry
intolerance toward those who are different
Wordsheet
ostracism n. os-tra-cism
exclusion from a group
bemoan vt. be?moan
complain about
ascendancy n. as?cen?dan?cy
domination; growing power
apartheid n. a?part?heid
system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

quaint adj. quaint
charmingly old-fashioned
Wordsheet
incendiary adj. in?cen?di?a?ry
used for setting something on fire; provoking anger
tenuous adj. ten?u?ous
very weak or slight
abet vt. a?bet
to assist or encourage, especially in wrongdoing
coalescing vi. co-a-lesc-ing
to unite, blend, or come together

conundrum n. co?nun?drum
a riddle, or anything that puzzles someone
Wordsheet
disparate adj. dis?pa?rate
different from each other
fisticuffs n. fis?ti?cuffs
fighting with your fists
gilded adj. gild-ed
covered with gold, usually to hide something that's not valuable
interwoven vt. In-ter-wo-ven
to weave together, or combine

undermined n. un-der-mined
to attack, injure or destroy by secret means
Wordsheet
vexing vt. vex-ing
to annoy, provoke, torment, or worry
Word Game

exclusion from a group

unrelated; out of place

Word Game

undermined
to attack, injure or destroy by secret means
vexing
to annoy, provoke, torment, or worry
conundrum
ostracism
tenuous
very weak or slight

diversity
mongrel
a riddle, or anything that puzzles someone
a dog that is a mix of several different breeds
variety of different ethnic or cultural groups
discordant
exclusion from a group

unrelated; out of place

Word Game

undermined
to attack, injure or destroy by secret means
vexing
to annoy, provoke, torment, or worry
conundrum
ostracism
tenuous
very weak or slight

diversity
mongrel
a riddle, or anything that puzzles someone
a dog that is a mix of several different breeds
variety of different ethnic or cultural groups
discordant
Jigsaw Reading

Group member : 4
Divide the article ： 4 parts
Task：
Answer the questions of your own part
Communicate with your group members and get all the answers of the article
Close Reading

Para.1 Para.2-3 Para.4-5 Para.6-8

According to Quindlen, what familiar object serves as an ideal representation of America?
According to Quindlen, how have people's attitudes about her being a product of a mixed marriage change over time?
According to Quindlen, how have other countries often handles deep ethnic divisions?
What does Quindlen think unified America's diverse ethnic groups before the end of the Cold War?
According to the former head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, how are today's neighborhood stores similar to and different from the old neighborhood stores?
Close Reading

Read Para. 1and answer
The crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. (Line 7, Para 1)
According to Quindlen, what familiar object serves as an ideal representation of America?
Close Reading

Read Para. 2-3 and answer
It used to be incendiary, but now it's quaint. (Line 8, Para 3)
According to Quindlen, how have people's attitudes about her being a product of a mixed marriage change over time?
Close Reading

Read Para. 4 and answer
Other countries with such divides have in fact divided into nations with new names. (Line 5, Para.4)
According to Quindlen, how have other countries often handles deep ethnic divisions?
Close Reading

Read Para. 5 and answer
Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of the world wars and the electrified fence of communism. (Line1, Para.5)
What does Quindlen think unified America's diverse ethnic groups before the end of the Cold War?
Close Reading

Read Para. 6-8 and answer
"The old neighborhood Ma-Pa stores are still around. They are not Italian or Jewish Easter European any more. Ma and Pa are now Korea, Vietnamese, Iraqi, Jordanain, Latin American.“ (Line 7, Para.7)
According to the former head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, how are today's neighborhood stores similar to and different from the old neighborhood stores?
Literary devices

Simile-



Alliteration-

Metaphor-
“That‘s because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades.”（Line 6, Para.1）
“That amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful.” （Line 5, Para.2）
“Tolerance is a vanilla-pudding word.” （Line 1, Para.8）
Summary

America unites together only in situations when there is a greater evil that we (America) are fighting/facing, but when the evil is not there to face or fight against, we turn on each other.
Write a summary of "A Quilt of a Country" to confirm your understanding of the essay.
Background

Written Sep 26, 2001
Written to show us why all the different people and cultures our needed to make our country
Happened while 9/11 happened
Background

Writing

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
First detected in Wuhan, Spread all over the world(pandemic).
What can we do? To people lived in Wuhan, who infected with the disease, Ostracize? Apartheid? Give warmth? Unite？
A Quilt of a Country
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Hello, guys! Today we are going to talk about an argumentation, called a quilt of a country.
This article is augmented by Anna Quindlen. We will tell more about her later!

Before we start, let’s watch a video. After that, you are going to answer my question: What have you learnt about America from this video?
Play the Video
All right, you all have the great answers. Now, you are going to answer another question: Do you agree with the notion that all men are created equal? You have 2 minutes to discuss with your partner and then you will explain your reasons. Let’s start!
Excellent, guys!

Now open your book and do a skimming reading. As you read, circle all the words you don’t know, and try to answer my question: What was Anna Quindlen’s claim?
All right, time’s over! You can share your answer with your partner in 1 minute.
Ok, let’s check your answer with mine. America is an improbable idea, its not supposed to work but it does. Do you agree?

Well, let’s learn some new vocabularies. Let’s look at the whiteboard.
discordant, there are 3 syllables in this word. The first is dis, and then cord, the last is ant. Let’s say it together, dis-cord-ant, discordant. Discordant is an adjective, look at this picture, it means unrelated; or out of place.

All right, let’s play a word game. Look at the whiteboard, now there are some asteroids will hit the earth. If you call their name, they may disappear. So, all the heroes let’s protect our earth.
incendiary coalescing pluralistic bigotry calico bemoan disparate

Now, let’s play another game, in this game, you need to match the words with their meanings. After 1 minutes, I will say a word and you need to say it meaning.

Ok, let’s start！undermined, diversity, tenuous, mongrel, vexing…

Now, let’s do a group work, called jigsaw reading, four in a group, and I will divide the article into 4 parts. Each member of a group needs to choose one part. You need to answer the questions of your own part. After 3 minutes you will communicate with your group members and get all the answers of the article.

Now, let’s find out the answers of your own part.
All right, time’s over. Now you discuss with your group member. Try to get all the answers of the article.

Now, let’s check the answers together.

All right, let’s try to write a summary of "A Quilt of a Country", you can exchange your work with your partner when you finish. You have 2 minutes to do this.
All right, this is my summary, do you agree?

Now, I want to share you some background knowledge of this article. This article was written on Sep, 26, 2001. A few days after the 911 attacks. America faced a crossroad, what should people choose, apartheid, segregation, or coalescing and unite? Anna Quindlen wrote the article to show us why all the different people and cultures our needed to unite and make our country.

You may not know what is 911 attacks, now I show you a short video of it.

Well, you may feel horrible of 911 attacks. Nowadays, we still have a common enemy, the coronavirus disease. This virus was first detected in Wuhan, and now Spread all over the world(pandemic). What can we do now? To the people lived in Wuhan, who infected with the disease? Ostracize? Apartheid? Give warmth? Unite？
Discuss with your partner and write down some key points and it’s your homework to write an essay about it.

Class is over, thank you for studying, bye.









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