[Valerie Doby]

 

This resource is perfect for the lesson plan I wrote on China.  My students have to do research about chopsticks but this site could give them more resources and more information on China's traditions, food, and culture.  My students especially like writing using Chinese characters.

http://www.china-family-adventure.com/chinese-culture.html

[Valerie Doby]

This is very exciting.  I hope they will be adding more and more every few weeks.  I really love this exchange of information it really helps you find things for the classroom that you really need but haven't found on the web yet.  We have such limited time to find so many resources.  This forum allows us to see how teachers use a resource and we can quickly evaluate if it will work for us or not.  Thanks

[Valerie Doby]

What a great idea to design a graduation trip.  I could use something like this as a cross-curriculur assignment.  They can plan the trip with a particular budget but I could have them look at the cost for a particular time period (Math).  They could write letters for their visas (ELA).  They could also list people and places they would like to see based on our time period in history (HSS).  I just need to figure out how to add a science element.  I love this idea, thanks.

[Valerie Doby]

I really like the idea of watching a different Mulan.  This year I want my students to read the poem about Mulan and now I want them to watch this movie as well.  It sounds like it might be a bit violent for a 7th grade class so I might need to use excerpts for them to compare to the Mulan (Disney).  

[Valerie Doby]

Film - Spirited Away (2001) country - Japan (released  2003 in the USA)

Directors: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise

Writer: Hayao Miyazaki

 

I have a lot of students who love anime and I asked them what movie I should watch for my East Asia class.  I wanted something that I could possible show in class that students would enjoy.  They suggested one of their favorites Spirited Away.  

The movie is about a young girl, Chihiro, who is moving to a new place and her family stops along the way.  Her parents are turned into pigs and she is spirited away to a bath house with spirits.  She must find a job in order to stay and rescue her parents.  

The story is a little slow to me but the visuals are great.  I am not sure how I would use this story in my class.  We could compare it to other stories that we can read or possible other anime’s.  I think I prefer movies or anime that have more of a historical reference to show in the class.

 

[Valerie Doby]

When I sign-up for the this seminar I was looking for a class that would help me learn more about the history that I need to teach every year.  In teaching seventh grade history, the standards require that I teach about China and Japan. I have struggled with all of the subjects to bring each unit to life and help my students connect to different countries and their history.  I always want to go further than the book. I am very glad I sign-up for this class.

This class gave me so much information.  Each session was so rich in history, historical figures, maps, political cartoons, pictures, and even playing cards.  There were so many strategies and ideas each day I felt a little overwhelmed.  I especially enjoyed having different teachers who were experts in their fields.  I wish that I could have some experts in my class to allow my students to hear a different voice and gain from their experiences with those experts.

There are a few things that I learned about that I would like to incorporate into my lessons.  I need to use more maps and I especially like the overlay of China’s map over the US so students get an idea of the size of China.  I also liked how it showed where most people lived.  I would like to use that to discuss why people lived where they do.  

Also, I would like to do more research on the Tokugawa Order 1600-1700.  This sessions was the closes to the era that I teach and it was very interesting to me.  I want to incorporate some of the readings and have my students do some research on the order.  

I especially like the propaganda cards and getting the students to do their own research on that card.  I haven’t figured out what I can do that can be similar for my time period in history but I am now looking for cards, websites, anything that I can give these individual assignments.

Thank you for this class and I look forward to signing up in the spring for the first part because that is the part of history that I teach.

 

[Valerie Doby]

I think this is a great website for teachers to use with their students.  It has so many cartoons that you could have students compare and contrast them.  They could make timelines to see how the cartoons change as events are changing in the country.  They can use it to study that thoughts and feelings of people at that time.  I wish there were cartoons for my area of history but I might be able to use them when we read a book in English that is about Chinese history.

 

[Valerie Doby]

I have used this site.  It is great in the classroom and students can work on their own. Since my students have their own chromebooks I used it as step one sometimes in learning about a topic in English or History.  It takes a little time to set-up but once you do you can use the videos for different classes.

[Valerie Doby]

I think it is important that Black and Brown students understand that they are not the only people that endure racism.  When they can see outside of their own experience they can be better citizens and it can bring a better dialog into the classroom.  I don't think I would like to compare the racism experience, I think I would like to compare the response to racism: fighting back, being strong, changing hearts and minds.  I am not sure how exactly but I think the negatives are always in the media so I want to see ways people overcame racism.

[Valerie Doby]

I forget about photo's.  This is a great idea to compare photos even from the same event from photographers working for newspaper from different countries or on different sides of a conflict.  We always think about political cartoons but photos from an event or the aftermath of an event can be much more powerful as long as they PG enough to be shown in the class.  I did this when we learned about the civil rights movement and the impact was great.  The students connect to different people in the photos.  

[Valerie Doby]

Since I teach History and English this book might be a good cross-curricular option. After I read what the book is about I am a little nervous because this year's class is very immature.  I am not sure how they would do with this reading.  I may use excerpts and have us do a close reading but thanks so much for this suggestion.

[Valerie Doby]

I like the format of the top 10 things as well.  I think for older students I would have a group develop each number.  They would research and present it in a unique fashion, bring in artifacts, articles. I have each group teach the class about every level of the 10 things you should know about Korea.  They would then be the experts on that topic and would be used as we go deeper into learning about Korea.

[Valerie Doby]

I think I would like to find different maps and let the students find what is different then have them discuss in groups why the maps would be different.  Then have the students try to decide which map goes to which country.  

[Valerie Doby]

The idea of communal living is not what I pictured when I think of Communist.  Nor did I picture the breaking down of families.  It made me think of the 60’s and communal living.  I think this might be an interesting discussion because in the Latino and African American community there are a lot of parallels to the idea of a commune living. These communities all come together, eat together and of course have 2nd mothers and fathers.  I think it would be a great project to compare and contrast forced family making vs it happening naturally.  What would the kids feel, how would the parents feel?  How could this have worked in China? What would have been a better plan to create this form of living?

[Valerie Doby]

Lesson Plans ideas

China

1. Government by Foreign Rule - The Mongol Period

Analyze the influences of Confucianism and changes in Confucian thought during the Sung and Mongol periods.

 

2. Chinese Inventions (with a project for the students)

Trace the historic influence of such discoveries as tea, the manufacture of paper, wood-block printing, the compass, and gunpowder.

 

Japan

1.Study the ninth and tenth centuries' golden age of literature, art, and drama and its lasting effects on culture today, including Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji.

 

2.Analyze the rise of a military society in the late twelfth century and the role of the samurai in that society.

 

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