List of the Week: Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club"

Supplement your reading of Amy Tan’s best-selling and widely acclaimed The Joy Luck Club with her personal essay, "Mother Tongue." 

Then learn vocabulary from both with these five new lists: "Mother Tongue," and The Joy Luck Club: Feathers from a Thousand Li Away, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, American Translation, and Queen Mother of the Western Skies.

Teachers: Note that The Joy Luck Club is a Common Core fictional text exemplar for 9th-10th grades, and "Mother Tongue" is a Common Core informational text exemplar for 11th-12th grades.