Asia Education Foundation

Impressions

cover image: Impressions: Student resources

This anthology of accessible written and visual texts provides sets of activities for Years 7-8 English students which bring rich insights into diverse Asia and opportunities to enhance speaking and listening, reading and viewing, and writing skills.

Alignment to the Australian Curriculum is provided for resource activities.


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Impressions: Popular Media - The Monkey Stories

What To Do

  1. Read about Monkey and Tripitaka on page 31 of Impressions and write down your answers to the questions that follow on page 36.
  2. Locate the following Monkey website and explore the history of the Monkey stories. This site also has 100 illustrated pages of the Monkey King stories:
    www.china-on-site.com/monkey.php
    • What is the purpose of this website?
    • What does it tell us of the origins of Monkey?
    • What is the significance of tripitaka?
  3. Look at this Monkey website and answer the following questions.
    http://www.purifymind.com/JourneyWest.htm 
    • What does this website tell us about the Monkey story?
    • What is the religious importance of the story?
  4. Using the answers to these questions, discuss with your group or class why these ancient stories are still popular and considered valuable throughout the world?
  5. Your group will make an oral presentation to the class to explain your understanding of the reasons for the worldwide popularity of Monkey.