Teaching About Vietnam with
THE SACRED WILLOW: FOUR GENERATIONS IN THE LIFE OF A VIETNAMESE FAMILY
by Duong Van Mai Elliott
This site provides resources for teaching with the autobiography, The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family, by Duong Van Mai Elliott. The site was developed by California State University Fullerton to support Vietnamese language, culture, and history teachers. We hope you find these materials useful.
Reading Resources for selected chapters include a chapter synopsis; study questions; vocabulary, people, and places; selected excerpts; enrichment activities; and instructional strategies. Digital images, videos, and tools are used to promote student reading comprehension and vocabulary development.
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Reading Strategies are ways to engage students in the text and include Dialectical Journals, 6 Questions/5 Answers Assignment (using Bloom's Taxonomy), Digital Storytelling, a Map Lesson, Timelining, and use of digital tools such as Popplet(R), Quizlet(R), and Google Maps.
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THE LEGEND OF THE SACRED WILLOW
LONG AGO, A KING'S SON BECAME SICK AND FELL UNCONSCIOUS. A HOLY MAN FROM INDIA BROKE OFF A BRANCH FROM THE
DUONG WILLOW TREE, DIPPED IT IN WATER, AND SPRINKLED THE WATER ON THE PRINCE,WHO IMMEDIATELY REVIVED AND WAS
CURED. FROM THEN ON, THE DUONG WILLOW WAS SAID TO BE A SACRED TREE. (Duong Van Mai Elliott, The Sacred Willow, 1999. p. vii)
DUONG WILLOW TREE, DIPPED IT IN WATER, AND SPRINKLED THE WATER ON THE PRINCE,WHO IMMEDIATELY REVIVED AND WAS
CURED. FROM THEN ON, THE DUONG WILLOW WAS SAID TO BE A SACRED TREE. (Duong Van Mai Elliott, The Sacred Willow, 1999. p. vii)