Asian American Celebrities

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Asian American Celebrities

• Their impact, influence, and presence in American
  culture
• Dao Yang, Francois Vang, Jennifer Nguyen, Leslie
  Erickson

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Objectives and Goals

• How Asian Americans affect American way of life
• Stereotypical Asian American acting
• The impact of an Asian American celebrity icon on
  society
• Further awareness of Asian American celebrities
• Assimilation into the American society

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Week 1 Monday-Wednesday

• Lesson 1 Introduction of Asian Americans into
  the media and entertainment culture
• Bruce Lee
• Tiger Woods
• Connie Chung

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Wednesday-Friday

• Lesson 2,3,4 Asian American Actresses and
  Actors
• Stereotypes
• Gender roles
• Good guy/Bad guy
• Film Clips from Lethal Weapon 4 and
  Romeo Must Die
• -comparison of roles
• The image portrayed to the American society

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• Jackie Chan
• Bruce Lee
• Jet Li
• Lucy Liu
• Zhang Ziyi
• Chow yun phat
• ACTIVITY Is Keanu Reeves Asian American?
• -Kids will research Keanu Reeves
• -Disscussion/Debate

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Week 2 Monday-Wednesday

• Lesson 5,6,7 Asian Americans in the popular
  American athletics
• -The influences these Asian Americans athletes
  have on society
• -Their achievements
• Football
• Dat Nguyen-Dallas Cowboys
• Basketball
• Yao Ming-Houston Rockets
• -Clips of games
• -Discussion Yao Mings
  image contradicting
• the Asian American stereotype?

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• Figure Skating
• Michelle Kwan
• Hockey
• Richard Park-Minnesota Wild!!!!
• Golf
• Tiger Woods
• Baseball
• Ichiro Suzuki- Seattle Mariners
• ACTIVITY Jeopardy with prize for winning group

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Week 2 Wednesday-Friday

• Lesson 8 Asian Americans in the musical
  society
• Yo Yo Ma- cellist
• Jin- rapper
• Michelle Branch- singer
• Joseph Hahn- DJ of Rock group Linkin Park
• ACTIVITY Listen to music and discuss what the
  Asian American artists contribute to the music
  society. Is there a specific sound that is
  required to gain fame?

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Movie!

• Lesson 9
• -Begin watching The Karate Kid
• Lesson 10
• -Finish film
• -Discussion of the movie
• -Tribute to Pat Morita (Mr.Miyagi)

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Assignments and Projects

• 2 Week long project
• -Due on the last day
• -Students choose their favorite Asian American
  icon to present a biography of the person.
• Requirements
• 1) 3 minute presentation including the
  biography, achievements, influence and
  interesting facts.
• 2) Submit a 1-2 page research paper