pre-2011 high school ideas

[Anonymous]

I am teaching about the Vietnam War in my history class, and I found the students VERY RECEPTIVE to the documentary, "Dear America:Letters Home From Vietnam". It shows actual footage of the Vietnam War and as that footage is shown, actual letters written by the soldiers and loved ones are read/narrated by actors. Students were held accountable for watching the video with a writing assignment and a class discussion follows/accompanies the viewing of the video

[Anonymous]

Subject: Foreign Language ' Japanese'
Standard 2.2:
Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.

In order to explore Chinese and Korean culture in my Japanese program, I would compare the similarities and differences off these 3 countries.
For example, when discussing chopstick culture, our class analyzes why Spoon usage was incorporated in both China and Korea, but not in Japan. This allows us as a class to uncover links between history, culture and necessity that contributed to present day food culture within East Asian countries.

[Anonymous]

Currently China, Korea and Japan seem to be loosing their traditional values (Confucianism, etc) in favor of Western influences: Instead of eating sushi, preference is given to eating KFC and Mcdonalds. Due to the dominance of social networking, the youth of East Asian countries and US are assimilated more closer than ever; the idea of Confucianism will soon be a concept of the past.

[Anonymous]

I am wondering how the students reacted to the documentary? What age group are you teaching for this material?
How did this affect your students?

This gave me an idea to read journals of young kamikaze pilots in Japanese to awaken the minds of 11th and 12th graders to their lives of comfort.

[Anonymous]

The age group of the students watching this documentary in my class was 16-17 year olds in the 11th grade. The class writing assignment and discussions that accompanied the showing of the film revealed the students to be in awe of the realities of war. Upon viewing the scenes of the acutal killing, carnage, violence...the students were awestruck. The class was especially shocked by the famous photo of the Viet Cong who got shot in the the head execultion style during the Tet Offensive. Nevertheless, the students expressed how they felt the human element of war as they would hear the actual letters being read. The 60's/70's music also got the students engaged in the video.

[Anonymous]

Teaching a Journalism class with many Hispanic/Asian students has led to a constant search for culturally relevant stories for and about the community. I find it important to tie in stories from the mother country to this new world culture to make their experience and understanding more relevant.

[Anonymous]

we discuss marriage customs during Elizabethan times. Perhaps I can create a lesson in which students research Japanese marriage customs as well and groups can present various scenarios in response to questions posed in a love and marriage encounter from the two cultures

[clay dube]

Let's use this area to discuss curriculum materials and activities to use with high school students. Where possible, please include information about the skills being developed and any content standards that are being addressed. Please change the subject line to reflect the theme of your post.

-- What Asia-specific topics do you try to raise with your students?

-- For what topics (e.g., marriage customs, diet, social organization, international relations, government, economic development, demography, family roles) do you use Asia-related examples?

-- How have your students responded to these? (Perhaps tell us a bit about your students.)

-- What articles, stories, books, films, or activities would you recommend?

Thanks for drawing on your experiences.

Please also use this area to ask questions. For example, perhaps you'd like to teach something on imperialism and would like to compare the European-Asian encounters in the 16th century with those in the 19th. Or maybe you are looking for suggestions to use in your life skills, science, math, health, art, literature or drama class. Please ask. And, don't hesitate to chime with your own ideas about what has worked for you, what hasn't worked, and what you think might work.

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