There aren’t many Mondays left in the 2017-2018 school year, and I’m glad. On this particular Monday, here is a short independent practice worksheet on Genghis Khan (i.e. homework).
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“People of Japan, residing throughout its four major islands. Pushed north by the Japanese people over the last 2,000 years, the few remaining pure Ainu today live principally in N Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Aleutians. Originally physically and culturally distinct from the Japanese, their language and origins and their role in Japanese history and prehistory have been the subject of scholarly debate. The Ainu were traditionally hunters, fisherman, and trappers; their religion centered on spirits believed to be present in animals and the natural world.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
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It’s Friday again, as the weeks and years spin by. Mark’s Text Terminal continues to observe Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by offering, as This week’s Text, a reading on novelist Amy Tan with this comprehension worksheet to accompany it. Also, her is an Everyday Edit exercise on Hiroshima (and if you like it, you can get a yearlong supply of them from the extremely generous proprietors of the Education World website.
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Here is a short independent practice on the Daimyo, Japan’s feudal lords. This is key material for understanding Japan’s ruling class, and offers material for comparative study with feudal structures elsewhere in the world.
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“ni·sei \nē-ˈsā, ˈnē-ˌ\ n, pl nisei often cap [Jp, lit., second generation, fr. ni second + sei generation] (1929) : a son or daughter of Japanese immigrants who is born and educated in America and esp. in the U.S.”
Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (Kindle Locations 248367-248370). Merriam-Webster, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, much of the work of which, as is relatively common knowledge (I hope), was done by Chinese immigrant labor.
That’s the reason it shows up during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
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“Forty-nine alone escapes the Eastern suspicion of anything to do with the number 4 (which has a tonal connection with the Chinese word for death). This is because it is the sum of seven times seven, and ‘seven’ is very propitious because it sounds like ‘arise’ and can also mean ‘togetherness.’ For the superstitious, rather than writing forty-nine by itself, seven times seven is often used or tacked on beside it. So forty-nine has become the Eastern world’s preferred length of time for fasting, and cleansing rituals, as well as being the period of time for a requiem ritual after a death.”
Rogerson, Barnaby. Rogerson’s Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers–from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World. New York: Picador, 2013.
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Here, on a Tuesday morning, is a short independent practice on Babylonia. Independent practice is a something of a euphemism for homework, though I think it better reflects my own goals for students completing these kinds of assignments.
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There aren’t many Monday mornings left in the school year; while I dislike wishing my life away, I am looking forward to the summer, ergo the end of the school year. Who isn’t at this point in the year?
Anyway, on this Monday morning, here is a Cultural Literacy Worksheet on the Ottoman Empire.
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“Organization formed on 23 April 1933 to protest an ordinance forcing Chinese hand laundries in New York City to cease operations. It defeated the ordinance and became the foremost agency in the struggle for the economic, political, and civil rights of Chinese laundry workers; it also helped to launch the Chinese language newspaper China Daily News (1940-89). At its peak, the organization had 3200 members. During the 1950s it was harassed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged ties to communism, and several members were deported. The alliance took part in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and remained in operation into the 1990s.
Renqiu Yu. To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992).”
Excerpted from: Jackson, Kenneth, ed. The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
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