CLSC Chinese Art and Culture

Thanks to CLSC VP Art & Culture Katy Chen Myers for planning a full slate of special projects for our students this year.

Art & Culture Levels 1 & 2

· Animal PuppetsDecorate Oversized Puppet Characters from

Chinese/Miao fairytale: “The Peacock’s Tail
· Book Illustration

For a Story written by Students based on

Shopping for objects from ancient China.

· Patterns & Designs
Basic designs, patterns and symbols of the

Ming & Qing periods



· Bowls and Chopsticks

Food and chopstick 3D display of what we

Eat at home with our families

· Two Thousand Ships
Collage of the Ming Ships that sailed around

the world in the 1600s which carried over

twenty eight thousand men.



CLSC Art & Culture: Levels 3 & 4




· Children & Pet Puppets
Decorate “Self Portrait” or “Pet” puppets to

Dance to Chinese music.

· Family Cookbook
Students create illustrations for the first

CLSC cookbook

· Heroes of the Ming
Students help paint two murals of famous

Heroes from the Ming dynasty

· Two Thousand Ships
Illustrations of the goods traded with the

merchants of Europe during the world

voyage: Chinese innovations

· Active Qigong The Crane, the bear and the basic rock;

Qigong as performance art




CLSC Art & Culture: Levels 5& 6






· The Victors:

Portraits of the Qing & the eight banners; Nurhaci & his decedents: The Manchu

Costumes for men & women

· Temples of worship

Two backdrops depicting the interior of a

Small temple from the 1400s

· Jade & Earth
Recreate ornamental objects and vessels in

miniature for a household



· Shadow Puppets The Man & the Rabbit; a Szechuan folktale

Students create shadow box & puppets



· Qigong: Eight Brocades

Eight exercise movements, performance to

music; Daoist teachings to relax the mind





CLSC Art & Culture: Levels 7-9

· The Dancing Immortals

Puppet portrait: Bamboo & paper

Part of the “Peacock’s Tail” and Magic Flute

Story using masks & puppets



· The Manchu
Portraits depicting the most famous leaders of the Qing



· The Journey Map for the teen & tween using books:

“Monkey” & “American Born Chinese”



· The Book of Inventions 2500 years science & innovations based on

works of Joseph Needham: illustrations &

collage on canvas



· The CLSC photo bookStudents take photos of Asian influences

they see in everyday life to incorporate in to

large mix-media installation





Upcoming CLSC Events



October: Parent Forum: Dr. Jessica Offir

“Parenting: Setting Boundaries for your child”





November: The 2nd Annual CLSC Baking contest

This years’ theme: Decorative arts of China





December: Parent Forum: Patricia Lord

“Self Image for Girls: What moms need to

To Know”





January: Lantern Painting and Art Show





February: Cooking Demo; Steamed buns







CLSC

Wheat & Rice Cooking Workshops





Steam buns with assorted fillings



Fried rice, home style



Glutinous rice with chicken & wine



Dumplings with veggies, shrimp or chicken





Join us to learn how to cook simple and nutritious

home style comfort foods which are easy to

prepare. Class will be held at a private home in

Greenwich. B.Y.O.R.P*



* Bring your own rolling pins

American Grads Finding Jobs in China

Thanks to Alumni Parent and Advisory Committee member Laurie Greiss for the following:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/business/economy/11expats.html?_r=1

CLSC Students Skip Levels of High School Chinese

Students who study Chinese (either through CLSC or private tutoring) may be able to skip one or more levels of their high school's Chinese program.

The normal procedure is for parents to check with their school's Chinese instructor the winter or spring before the student is to enter high school so the student may be able to take the high school's Chinese 1 exam to determine placement. For questions as to how your middle school student may be able to advance in Chinese, or on how your high school student may be able to earn college credit in Chinese (while in high school) please visit www.ChineseLanguageSchool.org.

Thanks to CLSC Alumni Parent, Betty Liu, Southport for the following: "Thank you for offering such excellent programs at CLSC. Our high school, Faifield Ludlowe High School, offers Mandarin during the school day. Now that my daughter Ivy is a freshman there, she will be able to take Intermediate Mandarin (She was able to get waived from Beginner Chinese due to her previous Chinese learning). My older daughter Amber also did this last year.

Because Mandarin is so different from English, it seems to tweak the brain in such a way that it enhances learning other subjects as well, the way learning chess and music do. As a result, I believe my kids have done better in school because of studying Chinese. Best of luck on continuing the mission of CLSC."

Asian MBA Leadership Conference September 10-12

Asian MBA Leadership Conference & Career Expo

For more info: http://www.wnyc.org/events/138140

Description: WNYC is a media sponsor of the Asian MBA (AMBA) Leadership Conference & Career Expo. The program will address critical issues surrounding Asian leadership worldwide. Through workshops and seminars by acclaimed industry experts and a Career Expo, the event will connect the nation’s best Asian American talent.

Date: Thursday, September 10-Saturday, September 12

Location: Jacob Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street

Asian MBA Leadership Conference
Time: Times vary (Thursday evening through Saturday evening)
Ticket price: Prices vary
Ticket information: (212) 465-8391 or Asian MBA Leadership Conference

Taiwan disaster relief

(This bulletin has been sent to CLSC; CLSC cannot verify the validity of or give details on any of the following; we invite you to please contact these organizations or individuals yourselves, thank you.)

Dear Friends:

As news of the disastrous typhoon and mudslides occur in Taiwan, our
hearts go out to the victims. See *
http://oldlady.idv.tw/old/2009/20090808/index.html* Whole villages have
been wiped out. Help is urgently needed now and into the near future for
the victims and their families .

Because time is of the essence, rather than acting as an intermediary, to
collect donations then, to disburse to the agencies, the OCAFC unanimously recommended that we pass along information on the following organizations through whom you can make donations directly if you are so inclined.

Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association (DDMBA) www.dharmadrum.org/* ;*

www.DDMBA.org for USA headquarter

They have on the ground volunteers in Taiwan, and 100% of donations go to
relief effort, with no overhead costs. Donations should be made out to

DDMBA (for Taiwan Disaster Relief)

90-56 Corona Ave

Elmhurst, NY 11373


If you donate to this organization, our board member Alice Chen and her
family will match donations up to $2,000. Please send an email to Aliceat
contekalice@aol.com* *, indicating the $ amount donated and the check
number for the matching donation. DDMBA will mail a receipt upon receive the
donation check. It is 100% tax deductible.

Comment: donors can remain anonymous.


East Villagers

*www.eastvillagers.org/articles.php?tag=chao%20foundation*

All donations will be matched by Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation (Ping
Chao is a classmate of Jy-Hong Su, our former President)

http://www.eastvillagers.org

All donations will be applied to joint relief effort with Taiwan Root
Medical Peace Corps;

Comment: Donors’ name will be listed online.

Tzu Chi Foundation

http://www.us.tzuchi.org/usa/home.nsf/home/index



TAIWAN BUDDHIST TZU CHI
FOUNDATION,

U.S.A. NATIONAL
EADQUARTERS

1100 S. Valley Center Ave., San Dimas, CA 91773

Tel: 909-447-7799 / Fax: 909-447-7948

*Web: *http://www.us.tzuchi.org



World Journal

www.worldjournal.com

Comment: World Journal is one of the most widely read Daily News in
Chinese Language for Chinese Language Communities.


In addition, there are many other Organizations and Channels suitable for
donating to TTDRD. We strongly recommend you as a concerned and caring individualor family to evaluate them independently and to support this extremely urgent disaster Relief Campaign. The victims in Taiwan do need your
immediate action and donation now! Time is of the Essence. We want your
donation dollars go to the end victims as directly, as soon, and as much as
possible.

Thanks!

Jason Liu

President

OCAFC


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Congress Targets Chinese Education

CLSC was profiled on the CBS Evening News a few years ago, as one of the pioneers in U.S. Chinese education (thanks to parent and Chinese New Year Chair Sam Connell for this link):

http://www.examiner.com/x-15615-Asia-Headlines-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d15-Congress-targets-Chinese-language-education

Congress targets Chinese language education

WASHINGTON - A bill pending in Congress would dramatically expand
Mandarin Chinese language classes for American students. The
measure, the U.S.-China Language Engagement Act, would award
competitive grants to schools to “establish, expand or improve”
Chinese language and cultural classes. It also expands technology op
tions to help American schools establish “virtual connections”
with schools in China.

U.S. Rep. Susan Davis, D-Calif., who authored the legislation, said
the measure can increase the competitiveness of American workers.

“While an estimated 200 million Chinese school children are studying
our language and culture, less than 50,000 American elementary and
secondary students are studying Chinese,” Davis said. “This bill
is part of a broader legislative package seeking to improve our comp
etitive edge and relationship with China.”

School districts around the country are increasingly adding Mandarin
language courses to their curriculum, but a lack of funding and
qualified teachers often makes program implementation difficult.
Linguists are divided as to whether studying foreign languages at an
earlier age is essential for fluency in the target language. The so-
called “critical learning period” has been challenged by more
provocative research which demonstrates the “plasticity” of the
human brain in people of all ages and backgrounds.

Mandarin Chinese, called “Putonghua,” is widely considered one of
the most difficult languages for native English speakers to master.
It is classified by the Defense Language Institute as a “category fo
ur” (out of four) language in regards to difficulty of mastery by na
tive English speakers. On the Foreign Service Institute language dif
ficulty scale, Mandarin is rated as a “category three” language
(out of three), due to the exceptional difficulty it poses for Engli
sh speakers to learn.

National security experts have said that the U.S. has a shortage of
qualified “critical language” speakers – specifically Mandarin
and Arabic. Both the CIA and FBI regularly advertise positions with
their agencies for Americans who possess some Chinese ability. In Ma
y, CIA Director Leon Panetta announced that he was boosting the agen
cy’s foreign language training programs. The 9/11 Commission Report
criticized the weak foreign language capabilities of the government’
s national security agencies.

On the campaign trail, then-candidate Barack Obama stressed that
foreign language instruction should be expanded in American schools.
“I don’t speak a foreign language. It’s embarrassing,” he
said. “It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all
speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go
over to Europe and all we can say is merci beaucoup, right?”

A number of current Washington officials studied Mandarin as college
students. Democratic New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand studied the
language for six months in Mainland China and Taiwan. Treasury
Secretary Tim Geithner spent two summers learning the language at
Beijing’s Peking University, called “BeiDa” in Chinese.

The bipartisan bill, H.R. 2313, is cosponsored by U.S. Reps. Charles
Boustany, R-La.; Gerry Connolly, D-Va.; Mike Honda, D-Calif.; Steve
Israel, D-N.Y.; Mark Kirk, R-Ill.; Rick Larsen, D-Wa.; and Erik
Paulsen, R-Minn.

The legislation is currently awaiting further action in the House
Committee on Education and Labor.

Mandopop videos CLSC students like

Beside the Plum Blossom - Lee Hom

Hair Like Snow - Jay Chou

See My 72 Changes - Jolin Tsai