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Title: Asian American Celebrities


1
Asian American Celebrities
  • Their impact, influence, and presence in American
    culture
  • Dao Yang, Francois Vang, Jennifer Nguyen, Leslie
    Erickson

2
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

3
Week 1 Monday-Wednesday
  • Lesson 1 Introduction of Asian Americans into
    the media and entertainment culture
  • Bruce Lee
  • Tiger Woods
  • Connie Chung

4
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

5
continued
  • 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

6
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?

7
continued
  • Figure Skating
  • Michelle Kwan
  • Hockey
  • Richard Park-Minnesota Wild!!!!
  • Golf
  • Tiger Woods
  • Baseball
  • Ichiro Suzuki- Seattle Mariners
  • ACTIVITY Jeopardy with prize for winning group

8
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?

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

10
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
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