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A TALE OF 2 TALES

A HISTORICAL TALE

A CREATIVE TALE

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LISTENING ASSIGNMENT

What matters to me

  • Historical story?
  • Creative story?

WOW! NO-O-0- ???????

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READING

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TOMB OF MARQUIS YI

  • 125 musical instruments

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  • CURIOSITY

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  • Bells of Marquis Yi

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  • HISTORY

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DATING THE TOMB

433 BCE

EASTERN ZHOU

SPRING & AUTUMN

WARRING STATES

QIN DYNASTY

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BATTLE OF BOJU

  • Army of Wu State attacks Chu State in the Han River region (Hubei Province)
  • Wu army takes Chu Capital City, Ying
  • Chu king escapes to State of Zheng
  • Zheng ruler befriends Chu King

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“No one knows who made the bells nor why they made them.”��--SUSPENDED MUSIC

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MY IDEA�

What if the 2 rulers who became friends after the Battle of Boju had a daughter and a son who got married and the bells were a ceremonial wedding gift?

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WRITING MY STORY

  • “Write what you know” is not true for historical fiction or nonfiction.
  • To create an authentic world -- setting and events – research!
  • Create imaginary people living in that historical world.

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  • Writing or researching?
  • Write the story with

Note to self: Research this!

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RESEARCH ADVICE

  • Keep a list of who you talk to and what you read, page numbers, etc.
  • Primary sources, secondary sources,
  • Information that disagrees
  • Make choices you can defend

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BRONZE AGE and IRON AGE

for BATTLE OF THE ARTISANS

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FIRST DRAFT

WHAT DID I WRITE ABOUT?

Revise for that THEME

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CREATIONS

Real & imaginary

Map & Timeline

Battle of Boju

Confucius

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THE TIME OF TANGTUN

Ending Spring-Autumn Period (770-ca. 475 BCE)

beginning of the Warring States Period (ca. 475-221 BCE)

  • 490 BCE Battle of Ying - Chu capital city falls. King Zhao escapes to protection of Zeng State ruler, probable father of Marquis Yi.
  • 489 BCE King Zhao reclaims Ying
  • 488 BCE King Zhao dies. Prince Wang becomes King Wang, Chu ruler.
  • 457 BCE King Wang adds Zeng State to Chu kingdom.

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  • 456 BCE Tangtun is 12 years old.

Battle of the Chu Artisans

  • 455 BCE Royal Chu wedding at spring Fang Festival
  • 433 BCE Marquis Yi, bell set owner, dies at age of 45.

King Wang orders memorial gift, a funerary bell

Tangtun, now 35 years old, makes the Bo bell buried with MarquisYi and his bell set.

  • 432 BCE King Wang dies after a 56-year rule.

(Posthumous title, King Hui of Chu.)

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READING 2

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LISTENING ASSIGNMENT

What matters to me

  • Historical story?
  • Creative story?

WOW! NO-O-0- ???????

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