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[Beverly Nettles]

Hi everyone, and Thanks Dr. Dube for allowing us to post and receive a post for our Lesson plan and Film review topic that we did not have time to discuss in class.  Thus, my topics are:  Lesson Plan - Chinese Art/writing, focusing on the Alphabets in China not mentioning the A for Audi, and B for Benz : ).  I plan to help my PreK/Kindergarden students learn about Chinese Art History and it's print in Art.  Since my lesson is based on art and writing, I will continue my essay focus on Chinese Art History.

My film review is actually posted and the topic is “Somewhere Only We Know” (a double love story), unfortunately the rating is too adult-like for Kinders to watch 🙁  

[Evelyn Mendoza]

Couldn't find the forum for Session 12, so thanks to Beverly for creating this post!

For my movie review, I decided to go with a movie that was as relevant as possible to what I teach, science! I wanted to find a movie that we could review from a scientific perspective, and also from a cultural one. So, I decided on Flu, a South Korean film. This film is very much like every other outbreak-based film, like Contagion and 28 Days Later. I really enjoyed this movie, and its very mild in its graphic representations, so I think it would be a good movie to show to my classes. 

For my lesson, again, I wanted to make it as science-centered as possible. In my lesson, students will be researching ten East Asian, or of East Asian descent, scientists and/or inventors that I selected for their major contributions to our society. Among them are Cai Lun, Sakichi Toyoda and Flossie Wong-Staal. Students will be working in groups of three and each group member will be responsbile for researching a different aspect of the scientist's life, invention/discovery and global impact. 

[Eric Hoh]

I chose the movie "Grave of the Fireflies," which is a Japanese animated film that is set in last moments of Japan during World War II. It really grips viewers into reflecting upon the harsh realities and negative effects of war upon everyday people, and it does an amazing job of humanizing Japanese people. If you are interested in learning more about this film and how it might be used in the classroom, feel free to peruse my post! 

 

In regards to my lesson plan idea, I want to cover CA SS HSS 7.3.5-7.3.6. I would love to integrate a multi-lesson plan that incorporates computer lab time for research utilizing websites covering the 7.3.5, followed by group work to develop a presentation/station for a gallery walk. Students would then engage in a discussion/debate defending their discovery as being the most impactful/influential in Chinese history. The last day of this multi-lesson plan would teach students the development of the imperial state and scholar-official class by giving students an "important exam" that would determine their power to decide the way time is spent in class that day. 

[Michelle Levy]

I'm still debating what to do, but since I have second and third graders, I think my focus will be on art, just as Beverly is planning. I think the different art forms from each country we discussed and read about will be interesting for my students to learn about. Tracing a map over different countries to compare size, and writing a poem will also be included. I'm not 100% on anything quite yet, but I think the fables that I read from China and Korea would also be a great idea to include. I know that incorporating anything into my daily lessons will be fun and exciting for the students.

[Aja Koester]

The film I watched for the last seminar discussion (that we did not get around to) was The Golden Era by Ann Hui. It was a film about the life of Xiao Hong who was a famous modernist writer from China in the 1900s. The film depicted her challenges not only as a writer, but as a female, as a wife, and as a revolutionary thinker. The film does a great job of incorporating pieces of her writings and contextualizing her works within a larger framework of her life and the world around her. (I have analyzed the structure of the film in greater detail in my film review).

This movie got me thinking about how to embed film into my lesson. Many of my students are into K-pop and Japanese culture (i.e. anime), which immediately got me thinking about my postmodern unit since so much of Japanese contemporary culture has tenets of postmodernism. I would like to do something that incorporates my students' interests in some way, so I did some research on other postmodern Japanese films. I found a scholarly article about postmodernism in Japanese popular culture, which is challenging but accessible for high school students. It discussed a film titled All About Lily Chou Chou. So far, I have only watched the trailer because I had to order the film, but it depicts some postmodern concepts perfectly. That is what I have so far for my lesson.

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