Everything you need to understand or teach Dreams of Joy by Lisa See.
Written in the alternating first-person perspectives of both nineteen-year-old Joy and her adoptive mother, Pearl, Dreams of Joy describes the events that occur when Joy runs away to communist China in the 1950s in search of her birth parents and true meaning in her life. After finding out that the woman Joy believed to be her aunt was actually her birth mother and that her birth father is an artist living...
Dreams of Joy: A Novel Lesson Plans contain 144 pages of teaching material, including: