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The Weekly Text, April 3, 2020, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020 Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Weekly Text for the first Friday of Asian Pacific American History Month 2020 is a reading novelist and Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I’ve read three of his novels over the years and can say confidently that he richly deserves the honors and plaudits he has received.

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Samurai

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“Samurai: (from Japanese. “those who serve”) Warrior retainers of Japan’s daimyo (feudal lords). Prominent from the 12th century, they were not a separate class until Hideyoshi limited the right to bear arms to them, after which they became a hereditary caste. Their two swords were their badge. Their conduct was regulated by Bushido (Warrior’s Way), a strict code that emphasized the qualities of loyalty, bravery, and endurance. Their training from childhood was Spartan. Their ultimate duty when defeated or dishonored was seppuku, ritual self-disembowelment.”

Excerpted from: Wright, Edmund, Ed. The Oxford Desk Encyclopedia of World History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Everyday Edit: Hawaii, the 50th State

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Moving right along this morning, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Hawaii, America’s 50th State.

And as always, to give credit where it is so abundantly due, you should know that the good people at Education World generously offer at no cost to you a yearlong supply of these documents. I’ve used them for many years in my classrooms, and they are first rate.

And if you find typos in this document, for heaven’s sake fix them! That’s the whole point here….

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Book of Answers: V.S. Naipaul

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“What is V.S. Naipaul’s nationality? The essayist and novelist was born in Trinidad in 1932 of Indian parents. He has lived in England since 1950.”

Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

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Independent Practice: Silk Road

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OK, here is an independent practice worksheet worksheet on the Silk Road. This is part of the month-long observance of Asian Pacific American History Month 2020 (as are the next couple of posts above) at Mark’s Text Terminal. Over time, I’ve come to realize that this worksheet can open a discussion on the concept of a global economy; indeed, the Silk Road is in every respect the beginning of the globalization of human economic activity.

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.

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Bushido

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“bushido: Jap, ‘way of the warrior’) At first an unwritten code of ethics, devised for the moral and spiritual guidance of the entire military class by military leaders during the Kamakura period, bushido was codified during the Tokugawa regime. Emphasis was always placed upon personal and reciprocal loyalty and duty, both among samurai and between samurai and lord. But the Tokugawa period, the code had evolved to incorporate both the aesthetic and ascetic elements that are contained in Zen discipline.”

Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

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Origami III

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OK, folks, here is post three of give of some origami materials that I publish with no small amount of ethical foreboding. I won’t belabor the points I made in the earlier posts, but rather get right to it.

origami 22 lantern; origami 23 swan; origami 24 star; origami 25 sailboat; origami 26 carp; origami 27 butterfly; origami 28 frog; origami 29 pig; origami 30 waterbomb; origami 31 candy box; origami 32 fancy box.

Here is a document with folding terms and directions. You might find this wikiHow article on how to make origami paper useful. Finally, here is a long list of YouTube videos on origami technique.

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Book of Answers: Haiku

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“How many syllables are in a haiku? This highly stylized form of poetry consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively—a total of seventeen syllables.”

Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

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Independent Practice: Ashikaga

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Global studies teachers, here is an independent practice worksheet on the Ashikaga shogunate. This is a basic reading comprehension worksheet. I cannot remember why I wrote it, but I must have needed it for something. Like almost everything else at Mark’s Text Terminal, this document is in Microsoft Word; it is easily manipulated for your needs.

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.

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84,000 Stupas of Emperor Ashoka

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“Mount Meru, the mythical Buddhist center of the universe, was considered to be 84,000 Yojan units high (which makes it about 672,000 miles in elevation). This respect for 84,000 is repeated by the Jain, who measure their cycle of time in units of 84,000 years and also by belief that the Lord Buddha left behind 84,000 teachings. And so this was the number of memorial stupas that the great Buddhist Emperor of India, Ashoka, is believed to have created to hold the Lord Buddha’s ashes, which he scattered across the landscape of South Asia.”

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.

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