They aren’t really rapscallions, we just stole the word. They are kooky hand-made lumps of fimo or playdough with beads stuck on (made my little sister) that seem to have some character and individuality. You could do the same with with a normal pebble if we were more attuned to nature. Each one we make up a story about how it relates to the province. We last touched them last August. There’s a video on our blog I think, or where we got up to. Sam is learning Chinese Geography and history at school and knows all the names in Chinese, but I have travelled more, and maybe read more. Maybe. So we collaborate.
https://memorycrafthk.blogspot.com/2019/12/stereotypes-for-provinces-archetypes.html
No, the video is not on here, think I couldn’t embed it. We have a huge kids picture book with one page for each province (including Taiwan, ahem.
I was starting to collect common stereotypes (common to Chinese people) to create rapscallions after some trips to China and those ripper chats you have with strangers on transport. But Covid shut down my weekend tripping. Like Wuhan is in a geographic pressure cooker, always hot and polluted because the air is trapped by the mountains, and so the people are boiling with aggression and also very ambitious and academic. People from the seaside provinces are more open minded because trade and new ideas come from the sea.
Ah I posted it on the FB group cause I couldn’t get it onto the blog. https://www.facebook.com/625446030/videos/pcb.1445531902285576/10158154230256031
Ah, I had seen it there (and Wowed!), but before I had decided to learn them, so I didn’t take it on board. Thank you for the reminder!
Lynne
Oh god, did they actually pull the trigger on removing English
I share your delight. It must be the ultimate joy to be able to instruct children in something that will make learning and challenging their environment fun, especially as a teacher.
No, or I wouldn’t have a job. They pulled a relatively new subject called ‘Liberal Studies’ that taught critical thinking and a kind of mix of contemporary culture and media studies and current affairs. It’s been changed to ‘citizenship studies’ and study trips to the mainland (currently impossible as borders are closed). With no exams and half the timetable allocation.
Ah, gotcha.