Here is an independent practice worksheet on Hinduism. I don’t know about your school district, but in the years I taught in New York City, understanding the South Asian civilization (s) was a key part of the global studies curriculum.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“When did the Iranian government condemn writer Salman Rushdie to death? Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence against the author of The Satanic Verses on February 15, 1989. Rushdie has been in hiding since.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Here’s an independent practice (what teacher also call homework) worksheet on three Chinese dynasties. This is really a basic reading comprehension worksheet and therefore seeks to use the social studies curriculum as a means of increasing literacy.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
[Over the years in my classrooms, it was hard to miss the fact that students who struggled with reading, particularly the students of Asian Pacific descent I served, would nonetheless exhaust my school library’s supply of anime. In researching this post, I learned that Bakin’s best-known book, Hakkenden, has been adapted to anime. For that reason, I have tagged this as high-interest material.]
“Kyokutei Bakin: (1767-1849) Japanese fiction writer of the late-Tokugawa period. Bakin was among the most gifted writers of his time, and succeeded in establishing himself as a serious writer in an age dominated by the lowbrow entertainment genre of Gesaku. Bakin is best known for an extraordinary tour-de-force, Hakkenden (1814-1832), whose title translates, improbably, as “Eight Canine Biographies.” This high-flown historical romance of noble vengeance, with its thickly applied Confucianist morality of virtue rewarded and vice punished, ranks as Japan’s longest literary narrative. Hakkenden has retained its popularity in contemporary Japan, albeit in abridged modern editions.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Don’t forget that April is Asian Pacific American History Month. Mark’s Text Terminal takes pains to observe four themed history months (Hispanic Heritage, Black or African-American, Women’s, and Asian Pacific American) each year. You can link to materials related to any of these commemorations by using the tags in the word clouds at the top right of this site.
Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on the bombing of Hiroshima.
To give credit where it is so abundantly due, please don’t forget that the generous people at Education World give away a entire year’s supply of Everyday Edit worksheets.
“Nine has always been respected by the Chinese, for it has tonal resonance with ‘long lasting’ and was also associated with the Emperor, who had nine dragons embroidered on his robe and ruled over a court divided between nine ranks of courtiers who could gain nine sorts of reward. This respect for the power of 9 led to many social listings of 9, often charged with an observant sense of humor, as well as the more serious concept of how individuals were bound ninefold to their family, clan, and community.
Here are the 9 Admirable Social Habits:
*Relieving tension * Courteous attention. * Discreet
Mention * Tenacious retention * Assiduousness *
Wise abstention * Calculated prevention * Truthful
Intervention * A sense of dimension
The 9 Virtues—as defined for the near legendary Emperor Yu (2205-2100. BC) by his chief minister Kao-Yao:
*Affability combined with dignity * Mildness with
firmness * Bluntness with respectfulness * Ability with
reverence * Docility with boldness * Straightforwardness
with gentleness * Easiness with discrimination * Vigo
with sincerity * Valor with goodness
The 9 Follies:
*To think oneself immortal * To think investments are
secure * To mistake conventional good manners for
friendship * To expect any reward for doing right * To
imagine the rich regard you as an equal * To continue to
drink after you have begun to declare that you are sober
* To recite your own verse * To lend money and expect
its return * To travel with too much luggage
The 9 Jollities of a Peasant:
*To laugh * To fight * To fill the stomach * To forget
* To sing * To take vengeance * To discuss * To boast
* To fall asleep
The 9 Deplorable Public Habits:
*Drunkenness * Dirtiness * Shuffling * Over-loud voice
* Scratching * Unpunctuality * Peevishness
* Spitting * Repeated jests
And the 9 Final Griefs:
*Disappointed expectations * Irretrievable loss
* Inevitable fatigue * Unanswered prayers
* Unrequited service * Ineradicable doubt
* Perpetual dereliction * Death * Judgement”
Excerpted from: 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.
Posted in Essays/Readings, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged asian-pacific history, literary oddities, numeracy, readings/research
This is the fifth of five posts on origami; as I said in the last one, blink, of you’ll miss it. I scanned the documents in these posts from two different origami books I bought for use in my classrooms. None of this intellectual property, needless to say, is mine to give away. Desperate times call for bold measures, which is why I’m here putting up one more of these posts.
First, here are the folding terms and directions for the documents in this and the previous (i.e. Origami IV) post. And here are the directions of the origami figures themselves:
origami 42 magnolia blossom; origami 43 rose; origami 44 leaf; origami 45 swan; origami 46 butterfly; origami 47 crane; origami 48 frog; origami 49 chinese wheel; origami 50 koi.
Here is a wikiHow article on how to make origami paper. Finally, once more, here are a trove of videos on origami from YouTube.
“Makemono: Far Eastern painting on a long horizontal scroll; such a painting on a hanging vertical scroll is a kakemono.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
I sure hope it’s true that, as the old Roman proverb goes, that fortune favors the bold, because I fear I am pushing my luck with these origami posts. As the heading indicates this is number four–out of a total of five–of these posts containing PDF illustration of origami folding instructions. This batch is from a different book from the first three, so these folding terms and directions are different.
Anyway, here we go: origami 33 luna moth; origami 34 tortoise; origami 35 carp; origami 36 pinwheel; origami 37 lotus; origami 38 balloon; origami 39 wreath; origami 40 masu; origami 41 peacock.
Finally, don’t forget this article from wikiHow on making origami paper, and this trove of videos on YouTube on origami.
“Buson: (1716-1783) Japanese painter and haiku poet. Buson is generally ranked next to Matsuo Basho as the greatest haiku poet of the Tokugawa period. An artist of extraordinary creative range, Buson reinvigorated the traditional haiku genre and infused it with new descriptive realism. As a great painter in the bunjin, or literati, style, Buson paid homage to classical Chinese and Japanese sources. Buson’s poetry is noteworthy for its detachment from the conventions of poetic linking and group poetic practice; thus it points the way to the modern, autonomous haiku poetry associated with Masaoka Shiki, for whom Buson was a revered forerunner.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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