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AnonymousI found a Korean folktale that I heard when I was growing up. It's about a frog who always did the opposite when his mother told him to do something. He would so consistently do the opposite of what he was told that his mother told him to bury her by the stream instead of the mountain knowing that he would do the opposite of what was asked of him. The mother frog of course wanted to be buried on the mountain so that she would not be washed away by the water. But since this request was a death wish, the son frog did as his mother requested for the first time. So it is said that the reason why the frog croaks every time it rains is for fear that his mother will be washed away.
A potential use for this website is to gather more Asian folktales and discuss with students what fables are, have them share perhaps a famous fable from their own culture and/or one that they heard a lot growing up. Another potential idea is to discuss perhaps what the fable tells of the particular culture that it comes from much like what we did in class with the Southeast Asian folktales. Also, perhaps you could have students write their own fables.
Anonymoushttp://ccsun7.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/poetry.htm
This is a website with a collection of works from six famous Korean poets. If interested in Korean poetry, this site would be a good place to start. Most of them are still living.
Perhaps you could find more Asian poets and assign a poet to each student or have them choose one and do a report on him and his poetry.
Anonymoushttp://www.st.rim.or.jp/~cycle/MyKEIZE.HTML
This website supplies a Japanese family tree of gods. When you click on a god/dess, you get his/her story.
This could definitely be used when studying Greek mythology. The site could be used to compare the gods and their characteristics.
AnonymousThere are two sites that include much information about Chinese literature but also have a great deal of information about other aspects of Chinese culture. One site is http://www.chinapage.com/china.html It's Table of Contents has numerous subjects ranging from news, parables, and quotations, to "Love in Poetry", science,"Learn Chinese," and festivals. The level of writing is generally suitable for middle school and above. The subject areas also should appeal to secondary students, and there are many pictures accompanying the different areas. The content of the subject links has enough detail for students to get a basic understanding of the areas and also to find some interesting facts that might encourage further research. Among the other resources in this site are a slide show of famous sites, and maps of China. This is a good site for students to see the many interesting aspects of Chinese civilization.
The second site also provides a multifaceted coverage of Chinese civilization. The address is chinaknowledge.de/index.html , and it offers information under the categories of art, history, and literature, with about twenty subheadings under each. The higher level of writing and the greater depth of detail makes this site more suitable for high school students or for teacher use. The history links range from prehistory up to the modern era. However, one of the problems with this site is that not all of the links listed can be accessed. For example, some listings, such as modern history periods, and painting, cannot be clicked on, and others, such as the Song Dynasty can be clicked on but result in "this page cannot be displayed." The same is true about some of the literature sites, such as literature by theme or chronology. As disapointing as that is, the listing of literature by alphabetical order yields over a hundred works, each with their own detailed links. The large number and variety of links in this site, along with the lengthy descriptions and abundance of detail for each, makes this an excellent site for research. One other note, though the pictures are somewhat small, there are often many of them for each link, especially under art, which is divided by materials used (jade, bone, metal, etc.,) and by the type of art.
AnonymousA good site for background information on Chinese arts is chinavoc.com/arts/index.asp It covers the subjects calligraphy, painting, crafts, folk arts and perforning arts. For each it provides historical background and photos of art pieces. For the painting, and the calligraphy links, it also provides how-to directions that would be fun for all students. The details for each category also includes descriptions of the styles and materials used. This site also offers links selling Chinese art items such as posters, prints, and screen savers.
AnonymousTwo websites that I highly recommend are both useful across the curriculum.
http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/index.html
religion.rutgers.edu/vri/index/html
The site from Rutgers University is listed under the Dept. of Religion, but it offers so much more than that. It lists copious links to sites in areas such as ancient Near East, Anthropology, Art, Biblical, Confessional Agencies (faiths), ethics, Philosophy, and more.
This site is better than a hot date. I use it for all social studies curriculum topics. When you come to the site it will list subjects and that looks like all there is. Scroll down for the subtopics, for example, Religion: Magic. It is very reliable, just remember not to use WWW in the address.
The other site I use quite often now is World History Compass at worldhistorycompass.com
Again, this is a site that supports the social studies curriculum. Additionally, it has links to science and math sites and links under subject headings such as: aviation, computers, medicine, and military. The link to museums is wimpy: only US, Canada, and Germany. The link to Libraries for some reason lists links to country information not actual libraries. Still the site is useful to me because I can look for information or pictures to suppliment the textbook or for my own background knowledge. There are also links to lesson plans and teacher trainings. New items on the site include links to the Chinese Empire from Washington University and Nanking 1937 from Princeton University which includes photos and missionary documents.
Enjoy,
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AnonymousMy first major in college was comparative religion, then I found Anthropology and that was the end of that. I'm still interested in the role religion plays in world events and thus, many of my sites are religion oriented. See my website for a whole page devoted to various comparative religion sites. Here's another one:
http://www.religioustolerance.org
Not the best site for cleanliness~ there are many ads and sponsored pages. Regardless, they have the right idea and it's useful for statistics for your lectures. I would recommend the site for upper-level students looking at comparative religion, global conflicts, or ethics. Also, if you feel that you are on shakey ground teaching religion, you can research court cases about religion (or even meditation which is considered by some to be Eastern Religion) in the classroom. The site gives overviews of most religions, statistics, religion in the news, essays on controversial subjects llike sex, hatred, cloning, and science and religion. As for sending kids to this site, be careful: religious tolerance is considered heretical to some. Also, some of the ads are for spells or magical supplies which will get you into no end of trouble with parents. Check out the site, however, before you dismiss it.
Another site, which has nothing to do with religion, is a page with links to museums in Japan. The museums are listed by region. It is searchable if you know Japanese. http://www.dnp.co.jp/museum/icc-e.html
The types of museums include art and history, of course, but also coal mine, science and technology, ceramics, photography, paper, music, fashion, and the Toyota Automobile Museum. I thought the Tobacco and Salt Museum looked interesting so I clicked on the defunct link. Undaunted, I did a search and found it at http://www.jti.co.jp/Culture/museum/Welcome.html
There isn't much information, but there is a discussion of Japanese salt and Foreign salt. Also, pages about the "Route of Tobacco" and "Japanese Tobacco." I'm not advocating smoking, but it would be an interesting addition to a heath class to look at the route and then the statistics on smoking related deaths in Japan.
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AnonymousIf you want your students to have an opportunity to communicate with students in Asian countries--or anywhere for that matter-- you might want to look into, http://www.ePALS.com. They will hook up your class with other students in countries of your choosing. For both Language Arts and Social Studies the use of pen pals offers a unique perspective from a foreign country. One of their headings also has a place called "Teacher Talk" for teachers to get information for instructional material.
Emily