The first video below comes from Bettany Hughes' series, Genius of the Ancient World. The second clip comes from Bill Moyer series. Huston Smith explains Confuciansm. It's a old clip so there is a little noise but it's still good.
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Here is a link to a good lesson from Education about Asia in which student apply quotes from the analects to one fo the five key relationship in Confucianism.
Here's an excellent introductory powerpoint that Greg Soden (Classical Ideas Podcast) shared with me.
Prothero's book, God is not One, has a good chapter about Taoism but Oxtoby's A
Consie Introduction to World Religions, 3rd edition has an even better chapter on Chinese and Korean religions.
A good current newstory about Taoism comes from a 2010 story from The New York Times Called The Rise of the Tao.
Prothero's book, God is not One, has a good chapter about Taoism but Oxtoby's A
Consie Introduction to World Religions, 3rd edition has an even better chapter on Chinese and Korean religions.
A good current newstory about Taoism comes from a 2010 story from The New York Times Called The Rise of the Tao.
Here's anothe lesson from Greg. Copy stories from Tales of Taoist Immortals by Eva Wong. Let students pick three and then write a short paper about them. Each group reads a different story. The stories are super short and can be read in five minutes. Here'a s a google slide show about the immortals that Greg developed.
- Read your immortal story
- Make a chronological sequence of events in story
- Gather all spoken dialogue; these are the spoken lines of your film
- Create a short film based on your Taoist immortal story
- Opening credits: List cast members and make the title of the story the title of your film
- You can have printed words flash across the screen to set the scene of explain what is happening from time to time
- End of film: print the blurb about your immortal’s life from the end of your short story
- Ideas: If you need a nature scene, s use the woods as a backdrop; if you need a minimalist room, find white concrete wall as a backdrop, if you need an eating place, using commons; think of proper scene settings; some stories have DREAMS in them
- Your films might be sad, adventurous, exciting, happy, peaceful
- Your movies might be weird; that’s okay
Students read the Tao Te Ching here. They use this graphic organizer, designed by my friend, Greg Soden to record eight of their favorite chapters. Students then write a response based on these questions:
- What is the teaching? Paraphrase or quote partially.
- Why did this teaching resonate with you?
- Why is this teaching important?
- What does this teaching help you understand about yourself or the world?
- Why would you recommend this teaching to other people?
Here is another cool lesson about the Taoist concept of Wu Wei , or non action. Here's a copy of his directions and a link to them in google docs.
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Here's a short lesson called the Vinegar Tasters. It compares thebeliefs of Taoism, Confucianism and Taoism showing students how they all work together and are not mutallyu exclusive.