By Tina Matsubayashi and Pat Santiago

Culture: Japanese

Summary: Once, the Old-Man of the Moon saw a rabbit, a monkey and a fox all living in the forest as very good friends. He wanted to know which one of these animals was the kindest. He changed himself into a beggar and asked for some food. The monkey brought him back some fruit, the fox brought him some fish, but the rabbit did not bring anything back. Instead, he offered to have himself cooked over a fire. Just as the rabbit was about to jump in, though, the beggar changed himself back into the Old Man and declared the rabbit to be the kindest. He then took the rabbit up to the moon to live with him.

• Suggested Language Arts Activities:
• Write a script and act the story out.
• Write a letter to the rabbit in the moon.
• Write a different ending to the story.
• Suggested Social Studies Activities: Learn about Hounen-Odori, the Japanese harvest festival
• Suggested Math Activities: Play the game, "Climb to the Moon.
• Suggested Art / Music Activities:
• Create a drum.
• Make an origami flower
• Suggested Science Activities: Write 5 facts on the 3 animals.

Hounen-Odori is the Japanese harvest festival that is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the harvest moon in the month of August. During this time, the moon shines the brightest and allows the people to harvest the crops. This is a time for the farmers to give thanks to the sun, the water, the earth and so on for a fruitful and successful year, and to ask for another successful year. In Japan, some of the crops include wheat, barley, rice, various vegetables and so on.

In Japan, most of the celebrations take place in the villages and the rural areas and by the light of the full harvest moon. Often times the festivities are held in big open areas on platforms or in the harvested fields. Although the celebrations vary from village to village, most of the festivities include traditional Japanese dance, music, kimono (traditional dress), and delicious foods. During this time, musicians come from all over Japan to play in the villages. The festivals are often decorated with fruits of the harvest, such as flowers.

Background: The word Hounen means year of wealth and richness; and odori means dance. Thus, the Hounen-Odori is a festival celebrating the wealth and prosperity brought on by the year s harvest.

What you will need:

• 8 in. Square of colored paper, one for each flower.
• 8 straws for the flower's stem
• 1 sheet of green paper for the leaves
• pencil
• ruler
• scissors
• stapler
• white glue

1. Measure and mark an inch along one side of the sheet of colored paper. Draw a line connecting the marks. You will use this line to make your first fold on.
2. Fold the paper along the pencilled line and then make seven other folds like a fan. Fold the "fan" in half to form the flower. Stape the flower to the straw.
3. Cut out two leaves from the green paper and glue in place.

The rabbit is trying to climb up the ladder to the moon. Help the rabbit get back to the moon by clearing the number tiles from the ladder. 2 players

Materials:

• two sets of tiles numbered 0-9
• one gameboard
• two dice

• Place all tiles in order on her/his ladder.
• The players will take turns.
• Roll the two dice.
• Add, Subtract, Multiply, or Divide the two numbers to get a O or 9.
• Remove that tile from the ladder.
• After that, the tiles must be removed in order.
• One die may be used or the two together.
• The first one who clears the ladder so the rabbit can climb to the moon wins.

Part of the festivities during the Hounen-Odori includes the beating of drums while proclaiming their thanks for a fruitful and prosperous year. Thus, Japanese villagers often beat a drum in a rhythmic pattern while thanking the sun, the earth and the water.

Have students build their own drums and create their own rhythmic and/or repetitive patterns. Challenge students to design a notation system to graph the patterns using their own choice of dots, lines, colors, shapes, rubber stamps, stickers, manipulatives, or whatever they choose to represent their rhythmic pattern. This may tie in to math concepts such as patterning, skip counting, or geometry. Students may later coordinate with each other to create their own ensembles.

Materials

• Assorted cardboard tubes (assorted diameters - 2" and bigger - and lengths -few inches to a few feet)
• Rubber bands
• Tough large balloons (punching bag variety)

• Scissors
• Handsaw (optional, to alter tube-lengths)

1. Cut a balloon along one side so you can stretch it over the end of a tube. Secure it in place with rubber bands.
2. Play by pinching balloon in center and pulling it out a bit, and letting go.
3. Make a variety of drums to get different tones. Try different degrees of balloon-tension as well as different tube lengths.
4. Tape together collections of drums, hold them under your arm and pluck away.

Bass Tubes: Long PVC and ABS pipes that are 2 1/2" diameter or so make great tuned percussion instruments. Play them by hitting one of the two open ends with a flip-flop sandal or other soft flat swatter, and you will hear a surprisingly clear and deep tone. Different lengths will give you different tones; experiment first with lengths between 4 and 15 feet. One simple guide is that doubling the length of a tube lowers the tone one octave. If you want, you can fashion a simple swatter with a stick, a piece of cardboard, and an old dry sponge or a foam pad.

Marching Drum: 5 gallon plastic waterjugs make nice marching drums. Use some rope or a strip of fabric to make a sling, which will free up your hands for some sticks. For a gentler sound, turn your sticks into mallets with a liberal application of rubber bands. Test out available trash cans, buckets, empty paint cans, and waste baskets for possible drum-hood.

Bells: Many things will resonate in a pleasing way when struck by something, as long as it is free to vibrate. When testing a potential bell, put it on a piece of styrofoam (or throw it in the air) to make sure your holding of it does not dampen vibrations. If you like it, find a way to hold it that lets it sing. Look for: bits of metal pipe, large bolts, steel bowls, pots and pans, metal lamp-shades, etc.

Source: Holland, From & Gomez, Antonio M. Sounds from Scratch: Music Instrument Building and Performance for All. From Holland 8r Antonio M. Gomez, 1997.

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Culture: Korean

Summary: A sister and brother become the sun and the moon when they pray to their God, Hanunim, to help them get away from a tiger disguised as their mother.

Key Words: buckwheat, cunning, wary, clever, ri, nobleman, pallets, Hanunim, ascend .

• Suggested Language Arts Activities:
• Compare/Contrast using a Venn diagram the story of Little Red Riding Hood and this one.
• Write a story about a time you were clever.
• Suggested Math/Science Activities:
• Research information on the buckwheat plant.
• Make a golden chain using patterns. Count by 2s, 3s, and so on.
• Taste kim chee and graph it.
• Suggested Art/Music/P.E.:
• Draw a tiger
• Make the jango-hourglass drum
• Learn the "Kang gang suwolle" dance
• Suggested Social Studies Activities: *
• Discuss Chusok, the Korean Harvest festival.
• Make song pyon, Korean Thanksgiving rice cake.
Ch usok

Culture: Korea

In Korea, the harvest moon festival, or Ch usok is celebrated on the fifteenth of August by the lunar calendar. The eighth month of the lunar calendar is the month of harvest and thanksgiving. Ch usok is very similar to the American holiday, Thanksgiving Day. At this time, many people are thankful for good harvests, family reunions, and a prosperous year. The holiday usually lasts for about three days. In the light of the full, autumn moon, many Korean families give thanks for a year of success and good fortune and express good wishes to all their own families. Farmers are especially thankful for good harvests.

During this time, when the harvests are complete, families give offerings of food to the ancestors in a tshare, or memorial offering. Often times, after the service, families visit their ancestors at the cemetery. The songp yen, is a traditional Korean pastry eaten during Ch usok. It is a rice cake that is about two inches long and one inch wide that is in the shape of a half-moon. It is usually stuffed with beans, chestnuts, or sesame seeds with honey. Similar to the American tradition of eating turkey on Thanksgiving, Korean families eat the songp yon (both the songp yon and the turkey are stuffed with harvest items).

Background: Ch usok is also known as The Moon Festival because of the fact that we can usually see the full moon on a clear Autumn night. Ch usok literally means Festival of Autumn Night and is made of two Korean characters: Choo which means Autumn, and Seek which means night. This festival was originally a rural tradition, but has become a traditional cultural festival.

Kim Chee (Pickled Vegetables)

Concepts and/or Skills	Measure Cut Slice Shred Sliver Mix Taste Texture Stir Sprinkle Wash Drain Dissolve
Materials	(Tasting experience for 30 students)  4 pickling cucumbers or 2 thin, long cucumbers  1 daikon (long white radish)  1 small head nappa(Chinese cabbage)  2 green onions  1 small piece of fresh ginger or 1 tablespoon powdered ginger  1 teaspoon paprika  1 tablespoon mild red crushed peppers or 1 red bell pepper, shredded  1 tablespoon powdered garlic  2 teaspoons sugar  1/2 cup salt  1 pint distilled water  4-quart bowl  Measuring cup  Colander  Large spoon  Tablespoon, teaspoon  3 quart jars or large sheet of heavy foil to cover  Knife (serrated plastic)  Shredder
Procedure	1. Thinly slice cucumber and daikon. set aside in bowl.  2. Cut up Mappa into i-inch pieces. If cabbage is used, slice thinly as for coleslaw.  3. Place all the vegetables into the large bowl and sprinkle with the salt. Make sure all the vegetables are salted lightly. Set aside for 15 minutes or longer until vegetables are wilted.  4. Sliver ginger and green onions into thin strips about i-inch long.  5. Mix sugar and water, stirring until sugar is dissolved.  6. After the vegetables have wilted, wash off the salt and drain well in the colander.  7. Place vegetables hack into the bowl and add the paprika, pepper, ginger, powdered garlic, onions, and the sugared water.  8. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.  9. Leave in bowl covered with foil or fill the quart jars twothirds full to allow for fermentation at least one day.

Copyright 1975 Los Angeles Unified School District KEYS Project Jango (Hourglass Drum)

Concepts and/or Skills	Drum Tassels Measurement Rhythm Colors length Sound Lid Width
Materials	2 one-pound margarine tubs (slanted sides) with lids  36-inch lengths of red, green, and yellow yarn  Crepe paper (green, red, yellow, and blue) cut into 1/2 x 12-inch Strips; 2 of each color for one drum  Glue
Procedure	1. Glue the bottoms of tubs together.  2. Punch one hole one-inch from the edge on each lid.  3. Braid three colors of yarn.  4. String the braided yam through these holes, knot the yarn on the inside of the lids.  5. Place lids on the margarine tubs.  6. Make tassels on each end of the yarn with crepe paper.
Suggested Activities	A brad can be used in the bottom of the tubs to hold them together more securely.  A coffee can may be substituted for the margarine tubs with both ends cut out and covered with plastic covers.  Use jango to accompany Kang Gang Suwolle song and dance; refer to Korean Cultural Lesson Kang Gang Suwolle, KEYS Project, 1975.
Additional Information	Jango, pronounced Chan-goo, music accompanies most of the children's rhythm dances and folk festivals. It can be played on both sides with drumsticks or on the left side with the hand and on the right side with drumstick.
References	"Korean Folk Song," Exploring Music, Book 6. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1966, p. 155.  Fingau, Alice (Trans.) "Hills of Arirang," Making Music Your Own, Book 6. Morris Town, New Jersey: Silver Burdette, 1971, p. 143.

Copyright 1976 Los Angeles Unified School District KEYS Project Kang Gang Suwolle (Thanksgiving Dance)

Concepts  and/or Skills	Right Left In Out Together Skip Circle Center
Materials	Chusongnal Cassette Tape, KEYS Project, 1975  Cassette Tape Recorder
Basic Steps	Step, together  Skip
Starting Position	Circle(s) of 12 to 15 children holding hands, facing center
Dance	Measures  Introduction 1-4, right  5-8, left  9-12, in  13-16, out  17-20, right  21-24, left  25-28, in  29-32, in  33-36, right  37-40, left	Steps  Step, together, step, together, repeat  Step, together, step, together, repeat  Step, step, step, step  Step, step, step, step  Step, together, step, together, repeat  Step, together, step, together, repeat  Step, step, step, step  Step, step, step, step  Step, step, step, step  Step, step, step, step
Additional  Information	The Kang Gang Suwolle dance dates back to about the year 1450 when it  was performed by girls as a symbol of  thanksgiving and joy. Today it is danced by both boys and girls during the  Chusongnal (Korean Thanksgiving).  The accompaniment on the Chusongnal  tape KEYS Project, 1975 is the kayageum  (12-stringed Korean harp).

Song Pyon (Thanksgiving Rice Cake)

Concepts and/or Skills	Measure Round Texture Half Circle Flat Pound Pinch Shape Taste Fold
Materials	3 cups sweet rice  3 cups water  1/2 cup raisins  1/2 cup toasted white sesame seeds  1/2 cup walnuts, chopped  1/2 cup pine nuts  1/2 cup dates, cut up  1 cup sweet rice flour for coating  Electric rice cooker  Margarine tubs of plastic containers for wetting hands  Large bowl (for filling)  Small plastic spoons  Chugok (rice paddle)  Pestle
Procedure	1. Wash rice until rinse water is clear; drain well.  2. Measure rice and water; let soak one hour.  3. Cook rice in rice cooker (do not uncover for 5 to 10 minutes after cooker turns off in order that the rice may steam).  4. When rice is cooked, remove liner from the electrical unit.  5. Take pestle and pound rice until smooth.  6. Measure raisins, sesame seeds, walnuts, pine nuts, and dates, mix for filling.  7. When cool enough to handle, wet hands with water, scoop out rice with the chugok into wet hands.  8. Shape rice into a round ball and flatten into a patty.  9. Place a spoonful of the filling mix in the center of the rice patty.  10. Fold the patty over and pinch the edges to seal.  11. Coat each rice cake by rolling it in the sweet rice flour.
Suggested  Activities	Serve song pyon for Korean Thanksgiving.  Refer to Korean Thanksgiving Teacher's Resource Guide for Booklet, KEYS Project, 1975.
Additional Information	Song pyon is prepared on the eve of Chusong (Korean Thanksgiving). The traditional way to prepare it is with rice flour, mixed with hot water. This mixture is kneaded and molded into crescent shapes and filled with kon podo (raisins).

Copyright 1975 Los Angeles United School District KEYS Project

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Moon Festival: Tet Trung Thu by Le Quang Vinh

Culture: Vietnamese

Summary: Cuoi is responsible for a banyan tree that helps cure sick people. When his wife throws dirty water on the tree, Cuoi holds on to the tree's roots. The tree lifts off the ground and stops on the moon where Cuoi must spend the rest of his life.

Key Words: banyan tree, opportunity, wise, cure, Hang-Nga.

• Suggested Language Arts Activities:
• Sequence the story from the time Cuoi was a boy to the time he got married.
• Write a story of a time you helped someone.
• Write a story on being jealous.
• Suggested Math/Science Activities:
• Craph your favorite moon folk tale.
• Make a list of all the plants that cure people.
• Suggested Social Studies Activities:
• Learn about the Vietnamese Moon Festival.
• Suggested Music/Art/P.E. Activities:
• Sing "The Man in the Moon" song (see Moon Festival by Le Quang Vinh)
• Make lanterns to hang around the room.
• Learn the Vietnamese dance.
Tet Trung-Thu

Tet Trung-Thu, or the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam, falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month (August), when it is believed that the moon shines the brightest. At this time, traditional moon cakes are eaten and given as gifts in honor of the moon. Scholars and poets often glorify the occasion in verse, while the youths stayed up until dawn, exchanging spirited love songs to attract the attention of the Old Man in the Moon (Nguyet Lao) and the Moon Lady (Ba Nguyet). The moon is also thought to be the home of the Great Palace of Coldness, which was once visited by Emperor Duong Minh Hoang, who reached it by way of a luminous bridge, prepared for him by a Taoist priest. Once he arrived on the moon, the Emperor was greeted by beautiful and charming fairies, who danced to enchanting music. Thus, Vietnamese families commemorate this journey by making and parading lanterns.

At Tet Trung-Thu, children make lanterns in the shape of boats, cranes, dragons, hares, unicorns and so on. In the evening, by the light of the autumn moon, candles are lit and placed inside the lanterns and paraded through the streets to the beat of drums and cymbals.

Background: The moon and its rhythm has been an integral part of the Vietnamese culture for thousands of years. Aside from the fact that the moon determines their calendar, numerous legends and folk tales have been told about the moon.

Graph Your Favorite Legend

After reading the stories in this packet (or other moon myths), construct a class bar graph of students' favorite legends. Discuss the characteristics of your class graph.

Source: Almonette, Laren et al. "Exploring Moon Mythology."

VIETNAMESE DANCE

Dancers: Cuoi (a boy), Miss Moon (Hang-Nga), and a group of children of three girls and three boys.

1. Cuoi enters and gestures to the moon in the sky, indicating the banyan tree that grows on the moon. Cuoi is dancing on the moon and begins to dream. The children talk to him and he listens. The children dancing say to Cuoi, "Listen to us Cuoi. Why do you stay on the moon for such a long time?" Cuoi does not answer but continues his dream sitting down.
2. Miss Moon enters. She explains that the wind has no home as it flies over Vietnam. She and the wind talk together. The children ask: "Where is your home Miss Moon?" Miss Moon replied: "The wind has no home, the wind flies over Vietnam: She dances with Cuoi.
3. The children make two lines and then move into a circle. They explain that they sing like crickets; they are poor but sing beautifully so God gives them a present of the stars in the sky. Cuoi and Miss Moon dance within the circle.
4. The children show by their hands the moonlight on the hills and trees. The moonlight shines on the ground. The children indicate the full moon by opening their hands. They say: "The heavens give us the full moon on the 15th of August every year."
5. The children play and laugh (Gesture with finger on chin). They ask Heaven to give them a ladder to go to the moon. The children move from the circle to form a semi-circle. Miss Moon and Cuoi stand in the middle of the semi-circle. All bow, the song finished.
Source: Vinh, Le Quang. Moon Festival.

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The Moon Lady by Amy Tan

Culture: Chinese

Summary: Nai-nai tells her American granddaughters the story of her attmpt in China to get the Moon Lady to grant her wish.

Key Words:ying/yang, moon cake, Kunning, lute, Lady Chang-O.

• Suggested Language Arts Activities:
• Create a song, in cooperative groups, summarizing the story using the directions from the song improvisation chart. Share it with the class.
• Write poems about the moon.
• Write about your secret wish.
• Suggested Math/Science Activities:
• Learn the phases of the moon. Draw them. Make a moon book.
• Cut the moon into fractional parts.
• Extensions:
• Make moon cakes using the moon cake recipe.
• Make paper lanterns to hang around in the room.
Moon Festival

The Moon Festival is one of the three major festivals on the Chinese calendar. It is celebrated on the 15 day of the eighth lunar month and corresponds to the autumnal equinox at the end of September. The Moon Festival is also a time when the Chinese celebrate the birth of the moon. On this day, the moon is supposed to be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year--the harvest moon. Furthermore, it is said that on this day, the moon is furthest from the earth, the heat of the summer has given way to cool autumn weather, and farmers can relax and celebrate a good harvest, like the Canadian Thanksgiving.

On this day, the Chinese dine on moon cakes, a pastry filled dessert that is shaped like the moon. The moon cakes are usually stuffed with red bean paste and an egg yolk, or fruit and preserves. Eating moon cakes is believed to bring the person a good future and a good harvest. The festival is a public holiday filled with family reunions, moon gazing, and the eating of moon cakes.

Background The moon is an integral part of the Chinese cultures and traditions. Various legends and folk tales exist to explain the moon and the festivals.

A Lantern for the Mid-Autumn Festival

Materials:	Construction paper, paste or staples, crayons, rules, pencils, scissors.
Directions:	1. Have children draw a design on a piece of construction paper.  2. Fold construction paper in half lengthwise.  3. With a ruler draw lines about an inch apart. Children can draw lines using the width of the ruler as a guide.  4. Cut along the lines leaving a one inch margin at the open edges.  5. Unfold the paper and paste or staple edges together.  6. Cut a strip of paper ll inches long and glue to the inside of the Lantern for a handle.
Note:	Children will need assistance in steps 2, 3, and 5.

Taken from Chinese Curriculum Material Packet, 1979. Oakland Unified School District, Office of Bilingual/Bicultural Education. Chinese Moon Cakes
• Ingredients
• 1/2 cup salted butter
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 cup all- purpose flour
• jam (about 1 cup)
• What You Will Need
• large mixing bowl
• mixing spoon
• measuring cups and spoons
• aluminum foil
• cookie sheets
• pot holders
• How To Do It
1. Ask an adult to help you with the cooking. In the large mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugar and egg yolk. Stir until creamy and combine completely.
2. Add the flour and mix thoroughly. Form the dough into one large ball and wrap it in aluminum foil. Put this in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
3. Unwrap the chilled dough and, with clean hands, form small balls in the palms of your hand These are the moon cakes.
4. Make a hole with your thumb gently in the center of each moon cake and fill with about half a teaspoon of your favorite jam.
5. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Cover the cookie sheets with aluminum foil. Bake the moon cakes for about 20 minutes or just until the outside edges are slightly brown. Makes about 24 moon cakes.
Source: Harvest Festivals Around the World by Judith Corwin Directions for Song Improvisation
1. Begin with a unifying theme (e.g. March: Spring time).
2. Select a familiar tune ("Are You Sleeping," "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," "Somewhere Over the Rainbow").
3. Count the number of syllables in each line.
4. Organize a word wall according to the number of syllables per line (e.g. 3 per line or 4 per line).
5. Ask your students to think of phrases related to the unifying theme that have the same number of syllables listed on the word wall.
6. Write down the phrases on the word wall according to their syllable number.
7. When the word wall is complete, ask students to choose the phrases they like and to write them on their song sheet according to the appropriate number of syllables. (With younger children write out a single song on a sheet of chart paper as a whole group activity.)
8. When the song sheets are filled in, ask students to make up a title for their song.
9. Sing the songs.
10. Make your own song books.
Source: CLAD training

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Why The Sun And The Moon Live In The Sky by Elphinstone Dayrell

Culture: African

Summary: Sun and Moon build a very large house for their friend, Water, to come and visit with all his people. However, Water's people were so numerous that they took up all the space and forced Sun and Moon into the sky, where they have remained ever since.

Suggested Activities:

• Write a prediction on why the sun and moon live in the sky.
• When the earth was starting billions of years ago, it was only a hot planet without water. As the earth cooled down little by little, there was more and more water on the earth and slowly life began in the oceans, Do you think this African folk tale has any basis in truth? In what way?
• Make masks of the sun, moon, water and other animals. Act out the story.
• Find out more about masks and their significance. Compare your findings with Asian masks.
Animal Mask Pattern Source: Connecting Cultures and Literature

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Moon Was Tired of Walking on Air by Natalia M. Belting

Culture: South American Indians

Summary: Myths of various South American Indian tribes explain the natural world.

Suggested Activities:

• Make a class graph on their favorite myth.
• Locate the Indian groups on a map of South America. Learn about these regions.
• Compare these samplings of South American myths with Asian myths. What are the similarities? differences?
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London

Culture: Native American

Summary: This book celebrates the seasons of the year through poems from the legends of such Native American tribes as the Cherokee, Cree, and Sioux.

Suggested Activities:

• Pass out the following poem titles & their tribe names to a pair of students. Each pair must come up with their own myth on how the moon got its name.
 

Moon:	Tribe:
Moon of Popping Trees	Northern Cheyenne
Baby Bear Moon	Potawatomi
Maple Sugar Moon	Anishinabe
Frog Moon	Cree
Budding Moon	Huron
Strawberry Moon	Seneca
Moon When Acorns Appear	Pomo
Moon of Wild Rice	Menominee
Moose- Calling Moon	Micmac
Moon of Falling Leaves	Cherokee
Moon When Deer Drop Their Horns	Winnebago
Moon When Wolves Run Together	Lakota Sioux
Big Moon	Abenaki

 
• Research each tribe. Find out what they wore, ate, lived in, etc.
• Make a moon calendar of the North American Indians.
• Compare the moon folk tales between the tribes.
Native American Moon Calendar
• What You Will Need
• 12 sheets of 8-1/2 x 11 paper
• pencil
• tracing paper
• black fine line marker
• colored pencils, colored markers
• current calendar
• stapler
• How To Do It
1. Each sheet of paper is for one calendar month. Begin by writing the name of the month at the top of the sheet of paper in one color. Then underneath it write the Native American name for the month in another color. Following a current calendar as a guide, use half of the sheet of paper to drew out the days and weeks of the month.
2. Now decorate the rest of the calendar page using Native American designs and symbols. Copy the symbols free hand using a pencil first to sketch them in. Go over the pencil lines with block fine marker and then color in os you wish. Do this for each calendar page.
3. After you have finished your calendar staple it at the top with one staple in the center and another one on each side of it close to the edge of the paper.
Source: Native American Moon Calendar from Harvest Festivals Around the World by Judith Corwin

References

• Almonette, Lauren, Price, Kristy & Pritzker, Regan. Exploring Moon Mythology. Aimonette, Price & Pritzker, 1997.
• Belting, Natalia M. Moon Was Tired of Walking On Air
• Bruchac, Joseph and Jonathan London. Thirteen Moons On Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons.
• Connecting Cultures & Literature. Teacher Created Materials, Inc. 1993 pg. 116-117.
• Colwin, Judith Hoffman. Harvest Festivals Around the World.
• Crowder-Han, Suzanne. Korean Folk & Fairy Tales.
• Dayrell, Elphinstone. Why The Sun And the Moon Live In The Sky.
• Holland, From & Gomez, Antonio M. Sounds from Scratch: Music Instrument Building and Performance for All. Fran Holland & Antonio M. Gomez, 1997.
• KEYS Project. Los Angeles Unified School District. 1975. WEB Sites:
• Knowledge of English Yields Success (K.E.Y.S.) Project. Asian Pacific Perspectives: Teacher's Resource Guide. Los Angeles Unified School District, 1974.
• Krakauer, Hoong Yee Lee. Rabbit Mooncakes. Toronto: Little, Brown, & Company, 1994.
• Long, Hua. The Moon Maiden and Other Asian Folktales. San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, Inc, 1993.
• Lord, Bette Bao. In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. New York: Harper Trophy, 1984.
• Oakland Unified School District, Department of State and Federal Programs. Office of Bilingual Mucation. Mid-Autumn Festival or Children's Day. Oakland: Office of Bilingual Education (Oakland Unified School District), 1979-1980.
• Peng, Tan Huay. Fun with Chinese Festivals. Singapore: Federal Publications. 1991.
• Prince, Janet B. The Science Connection. Lawndale School District, 1985.
• Tan. Amy. The Moon Lady. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992.
• Vinh, Le Quang. Moon Festival: Tet Trung Thu
• Vuong, Lynette Dyer. Sky Legends of Vietnam. New York: HarperCollins. 1993.
• http://peacock.tnjc.edu. tw/ADD/TOUR/keep8.html
• http://WWW.ipoline.com/cccgt/autumn.html
• http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/exchange/contributions/culture/festivals/KoreanHarvest.html
• http://peacock.tnjc.edu.tw/ADD/TOUR/keep8.html
• http://www.tnjc.edu.tw/M00N/moon.html
• http://www.iswi.com/asianmoon
• http://www.gal.berkeley.edu/~ext041 /vivian.html
• http://www.sfmoe.org/emoon.txt
• http://www.wwu.edu/~skywise/legends.html
• http://www.cnd.org:8000/moon/
• www.acessasia.com/egi-win/imagemap.exe/aamap2?377.110 -- TimeHunters AccessAsia Crossroads -- Lists "everywhere in CyberAsia you want to go." Great place to start exploring South East Asian world wide web sites.
• http://www.info168.com/keewah -- California bakery offering moon cakes and other Asian pastries. Will ship throughout U.S.
• http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/chinese.html -- Chinese Poetry Offers links to various examples of Chinese poetry.
• http://www.viet.net/vietmag -- VIET Magazine - Good links to many sites about Vietnam and Vietnamese culture.

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