Message from mkang

[Anonymous]

I just finished teaching the Chinese philosophy lesson to my seventh graders (Clayton Dube gave us). I was a little worried at first because I thought they would struggle with the primary source documents. I had to help them a little bit at first, but they were able to pick out the big ideas. It was especially nice to hear them helping each other out as they were discussing the documents. They all really were excited about the commercials. Ninety-nine percent of them came out very nicely. The one that didn't really make sense was because they made themselves look bad (this was the commercial that was supposed to extol the virtues of their school of thought). Most groups brought in extras (paper made costumes, props, signs, banners, garbage band made music, and masks). I had fun watching some of them get carried away in the lesson. This lesson will have taken five class periods for us to complete. They will include the suggested writing assignment in their China sequence book project.