Previous Workshop Lesson Plan Archives

Selected Lesson Plans:

• Tsutsui Tsautaka's Short Story "Standing Woman:" Analysis and Comparison to Japanese and Greek and Roman Legends of Women, Nature, and Metamorphosis
• East Asian Unit Plan: Courtly Love
• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

Selected Lesson Plans:

• "Congruent Figures" (Takahashi Takako) by Amy Mathussen
• Sijo Poetry (Yi Pang-Won and Chong Mong-ju) by Nicholas Jacobson

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• “Wayfarer”by O Chŏng-hŭi by Marshall Dury
• "Wangchuan Ji/Wheel River Collection" (Wang Wei) by Matthew Bruneel
• "Diving Pool" (Yoko Ogawa) by Maureen Mulvaney

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• "Congruent Figures" (Takahashi Takako) by Rachel Voss
• "Shi Jin the Nine-Dragoned" by Rebecca Benz

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• "Hands" (Xiao Hong) by Lindsay Sutton
• "Congruent Figures" (Takahashi Takako) by Cheryl Cornwell
• "A Tale of Music" (Kwi-Mi Kang) by Jennifer Watson

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• "Preface to A Call to Arms" and "A Madman's Diary" (Lu Xun) by Krissa Goncher
• "Standing Woman" (Yasutaka Tsutsui) by Jill Quinn
• Winter Outing (Pak Wonso) by Erin Dowding

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• The Diving Pool (Yoko Ogawa) by Kathy McHugh
• “Preface to a Call to Arms” and “A Madman’s Diary” (Lu Xun) by Natasha Brunton
• The Tale of Hong Kiltong (Hŏ Kyun) by Andrea Hatter

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “Homecoming?” (Han Shaogong) by Karin Tooze
• “Congruent Figures” (Takahashi Takako) by Julie Horger
• “A Tale of Music” (Kang Kwi-Mi) by Linda Ensor

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “Wu Sung Fights the Tiger” (Chin Sheng t'an) by Ken McGraw
• “Sproing!” (Eri Makino) by Joy Wagener
• “Whatever Happened to the Guy Stuck in the Elevator?” (Kim Young-Ha) by Sue Rescigna

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “Xiaoxiao” (Shen Congwen) by Lori Macdonald
• “Standing Woman” (Yasutaka Tsutsui) by Jennifer Branchfeld
• Korean Sijo (Poetry by Chong Mong-Ju, Hwang Chini, Yi Sun-Sin, and Other Sijo Poets) by Amy Stoltenberg

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• “One Evening in the Rainy Season” (Shi Zhecun) by Megan King
• “A Sound of Hammering” (Dazai Osamu) by Brian Thelen
• Our Twisted Hero (Yi Mun-yol) by Michelle Schullo

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• The Twilight Crane (Kinoshita Junji) by Linda Arnold
• “The View in Spring” (Du Fu) by Brian Hanson-Harding
• The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Marc Vickers

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• Excerpts from The Analects (Confucius) by Patricia Miranda
• “What Happened to the Guy Stuck in the Elevator” (Kim Young-Ha) by Suzanne Ray
• “Standing Woman” (Yasutaka Tsutsui) by April Richardson Stewart
• Our Twisted Hero (Yi Mun-yol) by Janet Tombre

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “The Wounded” (Lu Xinhua) by Stacey Brown
• Setsuwa Tales: Creating Kamishibai by Kristen Pollack
• “His Father’s Keeper” (Ch’oe Yun) by Greg Varner

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “The Sound of Hammering” (Dazai Osamu) by Bryan Hoffman
• “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” (Zhang Jie) by Ruth Ann Perry

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “The Hell of Mirrors” (Edogawa Rampo) by Barbara Miller
• “On Visiting Taoist Recluse of Tai- T’ien-Shan and Not Finding Him” (Li Po) and “Autumn Dusk at a Mountain Lodge” (Wang Wei) by Alexis Pollock

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• Glimpses in the Mirror: Women’s Identity in the Modern Chinese Stories,
  “Xiaoxiao” and “The Wounded” by Eileen Frawley, in conjunction with history teacher Brillant
• Historical Lecture for the Story “Xiaoxiao” (Shen Congwen) by Jaclyn Brillant in conjunction with literature teacher Frawley
• Using Chuang Tzu in a British Literature Curriculum by Doug Parker 

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “Encounter with a Skull” (Koda Rohan) by Cathy Challacombe
• Twilight Crane (Kinoshita Junji) by Robert Quiring
• Raise the Red Lantern (Su Tong) by Susanna Schantz
• Confucian Ideals: The Analects and “The Story of Miss Li” by Laura Sheffler

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “The Hell of Mirrors” (Edogawa Rampo) by Anne Brinckerhoff
• “Almaden” (Kim Chi-won) by Maria T. Kelsay
• “The Story of Miss Li”: Uncommon Ground: Morality Tales across Cultures Dexter Mahaffey
• “Congruent Figures” (Takahashi Takako) by Peresephone P. Reynolds

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Selected Lesson Plans:

• “In a Grove” and “Rashomon” (Akutagawa Ryunosuke) by Cecilia Boyce
• "Autumn in the Palace of the Han" (Ma Chih-yuan) by June Kushida
• Kokoro (True Heart) by Velina Hasu Houston by Diane Mertens
• “The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love” by Lois Smith