10/11/99	M	No Homework

10/12/99	Tu	Read "The Chinese Home" and "Chinese Inventions, Can you name them?"  (pages 57-62) Answer questions on page 58.

10/13/99	W	Read pages 63-71 on "The Buddha," "The Four Noble Truths," and "The Eightfold Path"

		Answer the six questions on page 70 on "The Four Noble Truths" (FYI: impermenance means, "something that is not permenant; that changes; and will not last forever").

		Answer the two questions on page 71 in the middle of the page on "The Eightfold Path."

10/14//99	Th	Read pages 72-73 on "the Way, or the Tao."  Read page 74 on "Taoism and Legalism," and read #1 and #3 on page 75, #19 and #32 on page 77, and #57 on page 78.
			
			Lao-Tzu is considered to be the author of the Tao-te-Ching (or "book of the way")
			The Way or the Tao means "the path," or "the way to live."
			Wu-Wei means "nonaction" or "go with the flow."

		Write a 4 sentence description in your spiral of what you think Taoism is.
		Write a 2 sentence description of what you think Legalism is.

10/15/99	F	Read EITHER pages 80-87 OR 90-92.
		Read pages 88-89, AND 94-96.

		Answer questions on page 96:
			What qualities of Confucius do you think might have made him a good teacher?
			Do you think he would still be considered a good teacher today if he were alive in our society? Why or why not? (passage #21)
			What qualities do you think Confucius would look for in an educated person?
			How do you think Confucius saw his own role?(passage #10 & 25)			

 
10/18/99	M	Read pages 97-106 on "Jen-Humanity," "Filial Piety," "Government," Chinese Characters, and Mencius, Han Fei Tze, and Chuang-tzu.

		Answer the following questions:
1) What kind of quality or virtue is jen or humanity? What kind of person could be called a person of humanity?
2) How might filial piety help to stabilize society and prevent chaos?
3) If you were a ruler during the time of Confucius, would you have accepted his advice about government?  Why or why not?
4) Write a one sentence description of Mencius.
5) Write a one sentence description of Han Fei-tze.
6) Write a one sentence description of Chuang-tzu.

10/19/99	Tu	 Read pages 107-116 on "Early Empires of China" and "Early Money in China."

10/20/99	W	 Homework assigned in class:  Project in Library and Computer Lab.

10/21/99	Th	Homework assigned in class:  Project in Library and Computer Lab.

10/22/99	F	Read pages 117-127 on "Buddhism in China:  One Truth: Three Ways," "Marco Polo in China," "Peking," and "Lifestyle of the Great Khan."

		Answer questions assigned in class.