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Tiger and Puppy Paper Plate Animals
The story “Tiger and Puppy” is about a village with five families, where a mischievous tiger would eat all the food. An unlikely hero, a small puppy, comes to the rescue and helps the villagers capture the tiger. Create your own paper plate animals to retell this Korean folktale.
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Tiger and the Puppy
Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, engages pre-school students in the museum’s Korea galleries by telling a Korean folktale about a tiger and a puppy using artworks from the Asian Art Museum’s collection.
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Rangda
Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, tells the story of Rangda, the Balinese witch.
Lesson
Public Art and Civic Participation
Objective: Students will consider how public art promotes civic participation and social commentary by 1) researching Bay Area public art and completing research assignments or, 2) submitting grant proposals for hypothetical public art.
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Researching Bay Area Arts Organizations
Objective: Students will investigate and research the history of arts organizations and their contributions in the Bay Area.
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1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Primary Source Documents
Objective: Students will explore primary documents, like Chiura Obata’s paintings, to understand the severity of the 1906 SF Earthquake.
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Badger and the Magic Fan
Jeff Byers, a storyteller at the Asian Art Museum, tells a Japanese folktale about a badger and a magic fan in front of the museum’s tearoom.
Activity
Chinese Opera Coloring Sheets
Chinese operas are very long and feature complex narratives with a large number of characters. Have fun coloring in these sheets based on Chinese opera prints in the Asian Art Museum’s collection.
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Issunboshi: Little One Inch Boy
Asian Art Museum storyteller, Liz Nichols, tells a Japanese story about a boy who was only one inch tall.