1. Ohayo Gozaimasu Please have your Assignment #1 and Chart #1 out ready to be stamped.

2. Facing your Literature Circle 15 minutes: review your assignments with one another. I would like each of you to share your findings and knowledge of your subject. Ensure your name and assignment # (1A, 1C, etc. ) are on it. Have your chart out Stay on task

3. Book Group Discussion You should be able to answer questions about…….. What are the four major Japanese festivals? How are we seeing loneliness in the novel? What is the cause of loneliness? Is there a cure? What do we mean by emotional landscape in the book? How does this relate to the physical landscape? (Hint: think about Sachi’s garden, Matsu’s garden, the storm, etc) What can you say about the author’s writing style?

4. What is the essence of something?

5. Look at this Ikebana arrangement of flowers. What do you notice? Can you sketch the essence?

6. What is important about negative space?

7. Look at this garden….

8. How does this garden differ?

9. Which do you like better? Why?

10. “Nature does not happen; it is wrought (made).” From “The Essence of Japan” by Donald Richie “The arrangement is not only in the branches, the leaves, the flowers. It is also in the spaces between.”

11. “Wood is carved with the grain so that the natural shape can assert itself. … the Japanese carpenter finds the shape within the tree. Or, within the rock, for stone too has grain, and this the mason finds, chipping away to reveal the form beneath.”

12. “There are no opposites…the opposites are one.”

13. “As the single finger bends the branch, so the social hand inclines the individual. If the unkempt tree is not considered natural, then the unkempt life is equally out of bounds.”

14. How can we apply the concept of negative space to our novel? What is not being said? What is not being revealed, portrayed, understood.

15. Japanese Poetry Suggestion Symbols Simplicity (Goal, means, result) Imagination

16. Haiku

17. On a withered branch A crow has settled – autumn nightfall. - Matsuo Basho

18. Even stones in streams of mountain water compose songs to wild cherries. - Uejima Onitsura

19. On top of skeletons they put a gala dress, and then – the flower-viewing! - Uejima Onitsura (1660-1738)

20. Tanka “short songs” 5 lines 31 syllables 5-7-5-7-7

21. This perfectly still spring day bathed in the soft light from the spread-out sky. Why do the cherry blossoms So restlessly scatter down? - Ki no Tomonori

22. The clustering clouds – Can it be they wipe away The lunar shadows? Every time they clear a bit The moonlight shines brighter. - Minamoto no Toshiyori

23. When I went to visit The girl I love so much, That winter night The river blew so cold That the plovers were crying. - Ki Tsurayuki

24. Tanka Games!!!

25. Classmate poems Think about the essence of this person. I welcome you writing even more than one. Write it in tanka form. It’s even cooler if it connects with nature Needs to be in my hands by next week Thursday. Decorate these beautifully.

26. Homework Read to page 113 Book Group Project #3 is due the second class period after break- get started? UP to you! Sleep, rest, nap, meditate, chill out, do nothing, zone out, be zen, sleep late, snooze in, eat.