Leave your student assignment in the comments box below on how you will use the photos/videos collected at the Freer or online in a task for your students to complete that highlights the culture of your target region or country.
– Find photos/video online or in the Freer Gallery of culturally rich art and artifacts
– Create a short assignment for your students that would utilize these photos or video
– Post your short assignment here on this gallery


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Target Students: High School (Grade 9-12) Chinese II
Lesson Topic: Unwrapping a Culture of Chinese Clothing
Artifacts Provided: Photos of Manchu Man’s Court Coat & Portrait of Yinghe (1771-1839) @Freer Gallery
Student Assignment:
– Name various kinds of clothing words/items: to wear, clothes, shirt, pants, skirt, color (yellow, black, gray, blue, red, white, brown, green, purple), measure words for clothing, length (short, long), and size (small, medium, large);
– Describe your desired clothing including color, length, and size;
– Research and Identify two traditional Chinese clothing with images/pics; and
– Design your dream imperial clothing in color and come prepared to talk about it with image/pic/drawing.
William Kanyi
Student Assignment- STARTALK( S-104) .
Market scene activity
I collected photos of different market scenes in Zanzibar. The photos will be used by students to do an identification exercise of different things they see in the market scene. The exercise will cover fruits and vegetable/ buying and selling culture in East Africa/ Animals /mode of transport. The market scene is a social setting in East Africa and can be a great lesson for elementary learners of Swahili where the target language is taught in a cultural perspective.
*The student’s assignment will be to name different kind of fruits and vegetables.
* Do an exercise of separating vegetables from fruits.
*Grouping the vegetables and fruits in colors categories
*Create a market stall similar to the East Africa and then student’s pair up to role-play buyer and seller activity.
Target Students High School (9th-12th grade)
Student Assignment – Freer Museum
Artifacts Provided : Photos of Monkey Journey to the Moon at Freer Museum.
Go over new and old vocabulary words related to this story. Ask students to look at authentic materials from Sohu.com to go over the story in the target language..
Have each student do a 1 minute Animoto 2.0 web technology to do the story telling the story. student can tell the story by using images, drawing , pictures. Each student will incorporate all the target language studied for this presentation.
Each student will do an oral interpretive presentation about the theme Monkey Journey to the Moon Research about the significant of this project by artist Song Bing. and talks about the significant of the Sino-American relationship and answer the following questions: 1. Who gave the gift to whom and why? 2. What’s the meaning of this gift? 3. Where was this project exhibited, in addition to the one we saw at the Smithsonian Freer Museum.?
Please submit the project before 7/6 for grading. Students who do not meet the deadline will be graded one level down.
http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/35b17635f00b484c
http://prezi.com/ggngclsz6csy/celebrating-chinese-new-year/
Celebrating the Dragon Year – 2012, 1. Big Cleaning 2. Buying the New Year groceries. 3. New Year’s Eve Dinner 4. Giving out Red Envelopes 5. Gong Xi Fa Cai, Happy New Year 6. Lion Dance 7. Dragon Dance 8. Youtube playing a scene from the 2012 New Year’s eve celebration.