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1. 8 Buddhist Symbols, 8 Daoist Symbols – bajixiang

Creation of a set of personal symbols representing aspects of students’ lives, city of Chicago, Illinois, the school, the area, their family.

2. Simplifying images – Picasso style

Taking a picture of anything and drawing it again and a again, simplifying and minimizing the number of strokes needed or elements required – visual précis – copying ink brush painting.

3. Single line painting

Similar to 2, but transforming image into a single continuous line – see image of Bodhidharma in zen ink painting style.

4. Regress characters

Taking roman letters or numbers of other symbols and simplifying into as simple as possible while maintaining recognition

5. New view – meaning in form

Using English words and letters to make a word form that represents or is more representative of the meaning. Slide that looks like a slide. Mountain that looks like a mountain. Can also be used using roman letters transformed to look like representative words – A is for Apple, etc.

6. Modern characters – fill in the new

Making Chinese style characters for new inventions and concepts, e.g. MP3, television, CD, movie, words that are composites in Chinese.

7. Hyakuninisshu – with songs, information – see attached

Make a carta set with the group with songs, or symbols representing the song artists or song lyrics or both on different sides, learn the New Years game, singing the openings of the songs. Or use nursery rhymes. To make it difficult ensure that card section is the end or somewhat different from the sung section. To make it more difficult do not sing the first part.

8. Characters regression – decomposition

Form English words into Chinese style character shapes. Create a system of placement and order for reading governing.

9. Art allusion by breaking up a symbol – date the parts

Take a painting or piece of porcelain and deconstruct the symbolic elements. Detective work allows general dating.

10. Porcelain meanings – personal motifs

Create new repeating porcelain style motifs or bands that represent personal style or interests or school or region (e.g. City of Naperville).

11. Interpreting paintings – creative writing exercises

Take a Chinese or Japanese print or painting or hand out copies of different ones and have the students create a story from the imagery. Have them describe the history behind the imagery or the future.

12. Making painted pottery – paper plates to plaster molds

Use PET coke bottles to make a plaster vase or use paper plates and decorate in Chinese style or personal style using bands of decoration – relates to 10

13. Reverse glass painting

Using plastic or acrylic panes and tempera or quick drying oil paint easy subjects using reverse glass painting technique whereby the painting must be planned as the colours build in the reverse.

14. Dragon robes / Kimono in paper

Use an easy tape or glue joined model to make dragon robes (Qing Manchu style) or Japanese Kimono and decorate in groups.

15. Joined Styrofoam sculpture – Buddhas, Terracotta warriors

Using sections of Styrofoam corresponding to a template or draft designof a 3D image to create a large sculpture in groups – the groups have to adhere to the plans on all sides or the sections will fit together poorly.

16. Family Mandala / Mandala story

Family figures used to form a mandala or an organizational form with decorative borders. Using photos or photocopied images in a faux Buddhist mandala style.

17. Ink painting

This can be done with wet brushes on a chalk board that has been erased, but not cleaned so the chalk powder remains. Or with brushes and proper ink, etc. If paper is at a premium, use newspaper to practice. 4 standard flower forms are the easiest to start with – see attached.

18. Spatial exercises with painting elements – floral and landscape

Provide each person with photocopy of bamboo or other floral elements which are then cut out and a picture formed using their own ideas about spatial relations, rather than copying a template.

19. Name seals

Create seals of student names using roman letters. Self drying art clay can be used to create the real seals in intaglio.

20. Non verb poetry in 7’s

Chinese style classical poetry in couplets of seven characters each side. Use seven English words, eliminating all verbs, prepositions, articles, even pronouns if seemingly unnecessary. Could be used in conjunction with 8 to form pairs of scrolls.

21. Haiku poetry

Japanese poetry of 5 – 7 – 5 syllables in 3 lines. Ideally, first line should set the imagery, second line is description, third line is related but inspires a wider view of the subject.

Back aches and toes hurt

I never liked this driveway

Naperville winter

22. Dictionary name search and development

Use a Chinese dictionary to transliterate Western names into Chinese – Maria = MA LI AH (Horse, Mile, Asia) Robert = LUO BA (Building eight)

23. Monster mask replication

Learn the parts of features that make up bronze age mask motifs and dragons, using pencil draw half a face and then fold and rub to create the second half.

24. Paint a T shirt vase

Use a white T-shirt and treat it like a vase using bands of decoration in either blue on white or the five colors of early porcelain – blue red green yellow aubergine.

25. Cardboard Neolithic pottery

Long thin strips of cardboard are built up rope fashioned to form the body of pots that can be decorated with home made pigments. Walls can be smoothed out using toilet paper papier mache.

26. Team teach recognition – group teaching method

Two sets of students form a group, e.g. 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A / 1B, 2B etc. All 1 students are taught one fact or series of facts about subject, and must return to teach the rest of the letter group. Then all 2 students come together and are taught a separate fact. All information when pooled in the letter group should be able to get through a series of tasks.

27. Pictionary teams

Team pictionary game with extremely easy words such as “chair” in the speed rounds, more difficult concepts such as “beauty” in regular rounds. No symbols can be used. Work in teams to solve – teams then use winning images to form new characters and build a vocabulary.

28. Breakdown letters into new kana

Deconstruct letters into new simplified writing system.

29. Cartoons and iconography

Comix and cartoons use tons of iconography to allow an understanding of what is going on. Reinforce history lessons by having the students create comic strips of historic events or concepts.

30. Samurai armour

Construction project using corrugated cardboard to create a full suit of Japanese armour to be decorated in teams.

31. Fan paintings

Corrugated and paper are used with satay skewers pushed into a triangle of corrugated cardboard to make a hand fan painted by the students.

32. Personal Kamon

Personal history or family interests or imagery are used to create a samurai family style crest or kamon.

33. New Years decorations – Lanterns, shell game

Paper lanterns for Chinese New year from cardboard or construction paper. Tubular form or fish form.

Shell game is made with circular forms painted by the students to make a class set of shells which are used in a matching game.

34. Janken-poi atchimitehoi

Rock paper scissors with a twist.

35. Foxes wedding

4 part harmonized song

Bears – Bon Bon Bon Bon, Bohn bohn, bon bon bon

Deer – beeba beeba beeba beeba beeba beeba beebaba

Birds – Lalalalala Lalala Lalala

Foxes – ME DETAI YA O MEDE TAIYA

Each group comes in one after the other soft 4 bars, crescendo to high 4 bars, descendo 4 bars, each group drops off in descending (bears last) order 4 bars.

36. Classical text memorization

Section of classical text in translation ( or a long poem or speech) is given to students who must learn to memorize and recite from memory and offer back verbatim. Increases understanding of the rigours of Confucian examination system.

37. Tanabata Tree ( 7/7 celebration)

Tanabata is the celebration of the marriage of the Weaver Maid constellation with the Ox Herder across the Milky way. Tradition says it is the one night a year when the two can meet. Japanese children and adults prepare a bamboo tree or branch with decorations and wishes for the next year on slips of coloured paper (tanzaku) which are attached to the tree. The shooting star or star image are used profusely.

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