Message from dlevengood

[Anonymous]

Hello elemnetary school teachers! I posted this on web resources, but thought you might find it more easily here. Thought it might be helpful. You have to read to the end to see how it applies to elementary school though.

After our discussion I went out and bought Monkey. I think it would be very accessable to High school kids- pehaps middle school (I haven't gotten very far yet and have been reading for my own pleasure). If you were doing folktales or mythology obviously it would be a good resource or history teachers IT HAS MANY CULTURAL CLUES AND REFERENCES TO CONFUCIONISM so if you want to use certain passages as models then you're smart like me- good idea!

Anyway, I found a great site http://www.geocities.com/wucheng_en/

It has pop culture influneces- including anime you know you students know and how they've been influenced by this story. It also contains various resources and versions of the story- information on monkies- links galore. Even elementary school teachers could use this site. It also has links specifically for teachers. The name of the site is "Monkey King Central."

Look it up.
DEAN