STARTALK Student Program

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• STARTALK Student Program
• At the Huntington Library and Garden, San Marino,
  CA

Explore the Chinese language, culture and arts
through the Garden of Flowing Fragrance at the
Huntington Library and Garden David Wu Southern
California Council of Chinese Schools
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Essential Questions to Guide this Program and
Focus Teaching/Learning

• What are the historical background, elements, and
  major features of Su-Zhou gardens?
• What are the major features of Chinese
  traditional culture, history, cultural practices,
  cultural products, values, arts and literature,
  poetry, festivals, customs, and lifestyles?
• What were the professions, culture, and
  lifestyles of those ancient Chinese who built
  Su-Zhou gardens?

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Instructional Strategies

• On-site learning at the Chinese garden
• Teacher-student interaction through questions and
  discussion
• Group work
• Presentations
• Role playing
• Internet research
• Multimedia Learning Audio tape listening, Video
  watching
• Script writing and play performances
• Assessment

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Learning in 5C and 3 modes

• Learn culture through literature, calligraphy,
  poetry, art, and philosophy of the garden
• Communicate with visitors as docent
• Compare cultural differences with Western gardens
  versus Chinese classical gardens palace gardens
  versus private gardens
• Connect to Chinese architecture and history
• Servicing communities as volunteers

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A Comparison of Western and Chinese Gardens

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• Authentic materials can be found in the
  entrance, bridges, pavilions, windows, covered
  walkways, as well as places from which to view
  the landscape.

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The Freshwater Pavilion The entrance of tea
shop is decorated with a poetic couplet
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Authentic materials of the garden

• Translation for the couplets adorning on
  structures
• Love for the Lotus Pavilion
• Though rooted in the mud, how could the lotus be
  sullied
• Teahouse
• Enter as a hundred cares vanish Laugh as the
  great river expands
• Tea shop
• The morning flavor lingers in the cold spring
  water issuing from the rocks Spring blossoms
  waft from the new tea steeped in clay teapot

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Camellias are carved into the wood of structures
of the Hall of Jade Camellia
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The traditional elements of Chinese garden design
in full view from all windows
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The Love for the Lotus Pavilion contains unique
architectural choices
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Craftsmen Carved wood by hands at the garden
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No nails are used in Chinese architecture, which
instead employ wooden latches.
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The shape of the walls top symbols a dragons
back
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Round shapes in the Terrace of Jade Mirror
represent perspective and richness
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The Pavilion of the Three Friends, with pines,
bamboo, and plums around the pavilion to
symbolize that friendship can stand in hardship
(cold weather).
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The Jade Ribbon Bridge symbolizesrichness and
wealth
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• Water and rocks create harmony

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• A 500 ton rock, shipped from Chinas Lake Tai,
  in the shape of a dragon, stands on the lake shore

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Present their knowledge as docents