Month: December 2021

After a week off for Thanksgiving break, the kids were excited to see me today, which was such a great feeling. Today in math, we talked about plotting points on a graph. They were given a sheet of graph paper and a list of coordinates to plot. They had to connect the coordinates in order… Continue reading ICR 12/1

Today we went to Newfields to look at Asian art. There was a lot to cover, and we started on the first floor with European and American art which allowed something to compare to in terms of style and how much history is there. The sculptures and many statues in the Asia section were all… Continue reading Reflecting on IACA 12/4

On Wednesday, we had someone come to talk to us about Chinese art and calligraphy. It was cool to learn the history of Chinese characters because it never occurred to me how they have progressed over time. The visuals provided were especially cool because, when comparing the oldest characters to the newest ones, it becomes… Continue reading Reflecting on IACA 12/1

I looked up “China News” into Google and found the South China Morning Post, which had a story on the economy in China–specifically the rising inflation pressures and covid-19 outbreaks. The news site was in English (luckily), so it was very similar to how I get my American news, but, obviously, all the stories and… Continue reading China News 12/3

I really enjoyed learning about Islam because I was not familiar with it at all before this class. I didn’t realize it was so close to Christianity (which I grew up learning about). I thought it was so cool that people I learned about in the Bible were also in the Qur’an because it helped… Continue reading Islam/”The Cairo House” Overview

During my visit today, I felt responsible for many more things than I normally am. Mr Swem, the class teacher, was absent due to a COVID-19 exposure and I had to enforce the norms of the classroom during my duration of the visit. I helped the substitute teacher put together the packets that the students… Continue reading ICR Reflection 12/1

For our meeting on December 1st, we had a guest speaker, Dr. Gonzalo T. Chua, who talked to us about Chinese calligraphy and painting. He mentioned how Chinese writing first started out as pictures of objects and signs representing the concepts in a script called Oracle bone script. For example, the word “fish” in this… Continue reading 12/1 ICR Reflection ~ Chinese Calligraphy and Painting

Qatar is a country located on the Persian Gulf, and they have a booming economy thanks to the abundance of natural resources that are used for energy. Their Gross Domestic Product per capita is an astounding $127,700, which makes it the highest in the region by a wide margin. In comparison to the United States,… Continue reading Powerhouse in the Middle East

For this session, we talked about the virtual museum exhibit Take Me There China at the Children’s Museum. We each talked about what we liked in the exhibit and Kwan also added his thoughts and details behind each topic. I talked about the Beijing Opera, which said that the opera has been performing for 200… Continue reading 11/17 ICR Reflection

For our meeting on November 17, we had to come prepared with questions from an online virtual tour of the Take Me to China exhibit from the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. We each went around and talked a bit about a part of the exhibit that we had a question about, or we found interesting.… Continue reading 11/17 ICR Reflection – Virtual Museum Visit