Message from tbarbarossa

[Anonymous]

In an attempt to find out what my 8th grade English students already knew or needed to know about East Asia, I asked them to research and/or elaborate on five facts about China, five facts about Japan, and five facts about Korea. The assignment also included a question asking them to list the titles of all the books they have read or want to read in which an Asian or Asian-American is the main character, and then to give a short description of each, and then to do the same with movie titles. I am currently collating this information for the website I hope to create. The information is invaluable for many reasons. I can determine which book titles to include in my reading program, which websites are useful to my students, what areas about East Asia are lacking, what information is incorrect or insupportable, while trying to promote an open-minded view of all cultures of East Asia. This fits in with the unit on tolerance and the Holocaust covered every year.