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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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Aesop’s Fables: “The Fox and the Crow”

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OK, finally for this morning, here is a lesson plan on Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow” along with its reading and comprehension worksheet.

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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.

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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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F., Fe., Fec., Fecit

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“F., Fe., Fec., Fecit: (Lat., fecit, fecerunt= has made it) On a print, signifies that the artist whose name it follows was the etcher or engraver. Used like indicit and sculpsit.”

Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.

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Testis

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OK, last but not least this afternoon, for you health teachers, here is a short reading on testis along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you can use them.

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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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Yalong River

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“Yalong River or  Ya-lung River: River, Sichuan province, S China. It rises in mountains at an elevation of nearly 16,500 ft (5,000 m) in Qinqhai province and flows into the Chang River on the Yunnan border. It is 822 mi (1,323 km) long. It is torrential for most of its course and is unnavigable.”

Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.

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Term of Art: Word Salad

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Word Salad: One of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia is a disturbance in the use of language. Rather than select words which make communication possible, schizophrenics may combine words in idiosyncratic ways, or use associations that are out of context. This tendency may generate a minor language disturbance; or, in extreme cases, a word salad in which the combination of words is unintelligible to the listener and so makes communication impossible.”

Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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