Lesson+3+-+Yuki+and+the+One+Thousand+Carriers

=Lesson 3 - Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers=

**Materials:** //Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers// by Gloria Whelan ( In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.)

[] Teacher's Guide to the story

**Procedures:** **1.** Read the story. Discuss haiku and the format (3 lines, 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables, usually about nature). Have students summarize the events of the story. 2. Define the word "pampered". Make a T-chart to compare ways that Yuki was pampered to ways that children are pampered today. (Examples include:

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a thousand men carried chests and baskets for family; Yuki took 20 umbrellas and 50 kimonos on journey; Yuki had brushes, ink, and rice paper; took dog with her; rode in palanquin with silk cushions and shutters; ate many different foods; had a shampoo lady to fix her hair on the trip.) ======

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3. Review vocabulary from the story with p. 2 from the above pdf, either as a class, in groups, or individually. This is a good place to collaborate with teachers. Offer teachers the worksheet p. 8 and ask if they have time to work on haiku with their students. =====