Lesson Planning
Make replica oracle bones from wood, plastic or bone; inscribe with your own Shang inscription; make a display of all your Shang writing creations.
Teaching Outcomes:
- To learn how and why people in the Shang Dynasty wrote.
- To transcribe and translate Shang characters.
Children will:
- Plan a question about the future.
- Translate it into modern or Shang Chinese characters.
- Choose which of their pieces of work they want to put on display.