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Rob_Hugo@PortNWOn Monday night Joe, Diana and I got together to watch one of the many movies that I had purchase from eBay for my Chinese Culture Club and I had not seen yet. I want to see the films before I show them to the students, specially because they are films that are not major movies here and I really do not know anybody that has seen these titles.
We selected “The Little Seamstress”
Before I post my comments about the story, I would like to mention that it is so much more fun to do this types of assignments with friends, as we did on Monday. We encourage the students to cooperate and work in groups, to solve problems as a team and to figure out how to work together. We have to give the example.
It was nice to plan to get together, to decide when to see the film, decide the location and also to finally see it.
Each of us has an interest on a different movie type. The discussion to select the movie became a persuasive argument in which we had not much more that the movie synopsis on the cover of it to help our argument.
Finally The Little Seamstres won.
Watching the movie with friends was very nice, once in a while when one of us was not sure what just had happened, the other two would clarify the events.
I have about 10 more movies to see before showing them to the students, I would not mind getting together as a group to see them, maybe once a week. I have to share this idea with Julie, Santo and Corine and maybe one day after school we can have a movie afternoon with Chinese food. I am pretty sure Joe could bring the LDC projector and we can see them on the big screen.
We are also planning on going to the Pacific Asian Museum as a group. Field trips are other or my passions; I would have that posting soon.
AnonymousI agree! Working with other people is definitely more enjoyable and offer many more perspectives and opinions of the same thing. Our movie night reminded me of a cultural project we have our students do. It's called CPR, which stands for Cultural Participation and Research, which encourages the students to study and experience the language and culture firsthand outside of the classroom. We encourage students to do these projects with others and discuss what they learned and got out of the project and they find that each student has a different experience with the same project. These projects sometimes involve making a food, going to a restaurant, watching a movie, interviewing someone, reading a book, reproducing a work of art, etc. from a particular Spanish speaking country. The student gets to choose what they want to do based on their interests. They may also suggest their own project that involves the language and culture. Here in California, it's everywhere. The same type of project can be offered up to the students with the Asian culture. In another form I mentioned taking the students to Olvera Street, Downtown LA also offers a lot of Asian culture. It would be interesting to hear their experiences here in California with the Asian culture!!