December+12

=World Cultures Daily Round Up for Tuesday, 12 December 2006? WOO HOO!=

Scribed by:Jessica, Heather,katrina, Alicia,Eric.g, mallary, Brian,Dan,Austin, Kirste,Jessica, Alex, Becca,Tyler, Braden Activities for today

We learned about the shrines and that every thing that is natural is sacred. > > > > >
 * You told us of your efforts to become European royalty
 * We learned about some Japanese theatre that is influenced by Shintoism
 * An example of this theatre is Noh theatre, sometimes called Japanese opera
 * We saw very very creepy puppets(Bun-Raku)
 * Boyish dreams of origami shattered by poor time management
 * We looked over what had been posted on the wiki yesterday. We also discussed what we should and shouldn't put on the wiki.
 * picture of the day: Ebay?... Lame!
 * took notes on shintoism
 * you told us about your trip to germany
 * We learned how other cultures have different views on nudism.
 * We were going to do origami but we didnt get to it so we are talking about it tomorrow.
 * we learned that no one found shintoism, they just started it up on their own
 * we learned about shintoism in traditional japanese culture
 * we learned about the torrie gate, how if you walk through it your holy again
 * we learned about torii gates and prayer tabs and shinto priests.
 * A guy getting ripped of on Ebay.
 * People who get married usually go under Torii Gates.
 * We were told that tomorrow we will learning about origami and that there will be an origami contest...
 * You said that you bought a pack of Gilligan's Island Trading Cards on Ebay
 * We leared that a torri gate is placed where an element of earth is.
 * We learned that you can make a shrine anywhere that is created by the divine ones.
 * we also learned that you can take baths in public places.

Concepts covered in class with brief summary The Shintos have a traditional theatre called Noh Theater that involves eight people. Srines and everything that is natural is sacred.
 * Describe important concepts covered in class
 * We learned more about shintoism
 * Shintoism has no clear founder.
 * Theres no holy book of scripture.
 * That things in nature like mountains, trees, animals etc.. are holy to shinto beleivers.
 * also we learned about Torii gates which is the entrance of a shrine. When you pass through it you enter into a holy area.
 * Shinto shrines are based around nature and Kami worship.
 * Shintoism does not have a holy book, and they have shrines all over the Japanese landscape and each shrine has some importance to Kami worship.
 * We covered the importance of tea in the culture.
 * We covered tea masters is an important job.
 * Then we covered the importance of Ebay in the world.

Assignments for tomorrow or later Read the red and blue books
 * Describe assignments made in class today
 * after we learn about origami tomorrow there is a contest whoever can create the best origami on friday wins
 * We are supposed to work on our readings.
 * Reading, origami, and a quiz of the reading.
 * We are supposed to read Chapter 28 section 4 in the blue book and Chapter 17 in the red book.

Additional resources and interesting items related to class today > [|[[image:http://www.bigfoto.com/sites/galery/japan/japan-30.jpg width="866" height="566"]][[image:http://www.paulwinchell.com/images/0312/shintoism.jpg]][[image:http://www.bobmay.info/images/japan/japan_holy_site_1612.jpg]] HOLY THINGS OF SHINTOISM[[image:http://www.stanford.edu/~mtsai/origami_dir/orignested.JPG]]Origami!?!?!?!?!?[[image:http://www.pacificwrecks.com/provinces/marianas/saipan/torrigate.jpg]]Here is a Tori Gate! Awsome!
 * Here is where you put facts, websites or ot her information that relates to concepts discussed in class
 * here is a cool picture of an octypus http://www.lordhoweisland.info/octypus_tm.jpg
 * heres an awesome oragami sight http://libary.thinkquest.org/27458/nf/origami/gallery.html
 * here is a picture of a cool torrie gate http://japan.chez-alice.fr/Culture/Th-Photos/Torii2.jpg
 * Money Origami....http://www.wgn.net/~nienhuis/boat2.jpg
 * Heres another good picture of a Torii Gate http://www.danhagerman.com/images/Fushimi%20Stone%20Torii%20Gates.jpg
 * Meiji Shrine [|www.arrakeen.ch/.../102%20%20Meiji%20shrine.JPG]
 * here is a shinto shrine,http://www.nmpotters.org/Newsletter/AritaTrip2004/Shrine.jpg
 * Here is some info on Shintoism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto

Links from Neiffer: >
 * [|Origami diagrams]
 * [|Folds.net]