About this Story:
This Chinese legend is about how the sun and the moon came to be. Golden Sun Silver Sun is a Chinese legend about how the sun and the moon came to be. It reflects traditional Chinese people’s belief of the harmonious relationship between nature and human beings.
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Culture：
This is a mythology story talking about the harmonious relationship between nature and the Taiwanese aborigines. Different cultures have different stories of nature origin.
Connections (Subject Area):
Geography: Landform, geographic features of China
Social Studies: Life of aboriginal, myths in different cultures, mapping
Science: Origin of stars, earth nature, planets, basic needs to living things
Math: Day and night concept, measurement, graph, number
Art: Craft: Make a lunar cycle, Draw setting of the story, performing art
Comparisons:
Students will compare and contrast different stories of sun and moon from different cultures.
Community:
Communication:
Language Functions & Forms:
Grammatical Structures: …有… (There is/are…in…), …在…吗？(Is…in…?), …在+地点(…is at a place), 这里有…(Here it has…), 哪里有…(There it has…), number + 个, too + adjective + marker, 太热了(too hot), 太冷了(too cold), would__ (character name) be happy/unhappy?, __ (character name会高兴吗？)
Vocabulary: 森林(forest), 河流(river), 高山(mountain), 太阳(sun), 巴万(Bawan the hero), 金(golden), 银(silver), 有(have), 没有(don’t have), 热(hot), 冷(cold), 高兴(happy), 不高兴(unhappy), 害怕(scared), 很痛(painful), 如果(if)
Character & Word Study:
Culminating Assessment:
Interpretive Task: Students will be given a story map to fill in their own. They will draw their own pictures and use pre-made sticky labels or characters to complete their story maps.
Interpersonal Task: Students will work in groups to create a map to find the silver sun. The project will show students’ communication skill.
Presentational Task: Teacher will ask key questions about the story and give students model of how to create a story from one of the suggested roles and ask students to compare what differences are between two stories. Students will choose one of the suggested roles such as the Golden Sun or Silver Sun to retell the story. Teacher will have them sit in a circle to tell their story and the rest of other students will give comments or ask questions.