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Curriculum Integration
Brooke ink-block printing her Chinese name, Heshan.
He-shan (river-mountain) is a Chinese approximation of the meaning for Brooke, and it is visually suggestive of the Chinese name for landscape: shan-shui (mountain-water). Of course, Brooke could have just as easily chosen the Chinese name Xiao-he (little-river), but she had first settled on Heshan with much enthusiasm.
Every student in class received a Chinese name with which each was pleased. Every name was comprised of two characters and was based on meaning or phonetic approximation. For example, Troy became Jun-li (army-power) and Hagan became Hai-gan (sea-venture/bold/brave). The students then carved their Chinese characters into ink-blocks before block-printing their Chinese names.
The ink-block print project was integrated with the China unit Adele Lawler was teaching in the elementary and middle school social studies classrooms.
All photographs, drawings and prose by Brad Houk unless otherwise noted.
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