Calligraphy

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Brushstrokes from West to East is a 43 page document contains Vermont-standards based lesson plans includes lesson plans for calligraphy fro K - 6. Stroke order is a big issue for me with characters and a pet peeve when artists who don't write Chinese try to teach calligraphy. The references used look good but I still don't think stroke order tis emphasized enough.

Stroke order test - "write" the same character twice, once respecting stroke order and once ignoring it (even if you are tracing for both characters). Show the two characters to your students. So far, every class I have heard of, says that he one drawn with the correct stroke order somehow looks "better". This has been true even when the class does not know any Chinese.

For a different type of character, check out the Spring (chun) Paper Cut Project.

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