Unit 3

From Isolation to Adaptation

Activity

1. Download the document, Reading/Study Guide Unit 3: Chapter 12, Lesson 2.
   Please save your work to a file on your desktop so you will have a copy to refer back to.


2. Click on one of the links provided to download the document.
• You will then be able to view the Reading/Study Guide Unit 3: Chapter 12, Lesson 2 worksheet.




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3. Read pages 268 and 269 of your textbook, including "Voices".
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• What do the cherry blossoms represent to the Japanese people?
  
• How are the Ainu similar to many of our Indigenous peoples in Canada?
  


4. Read page 270 of your textbook.
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• What is Shinto?
  
• What is the most important aspect of Shinto?
  
• Because Shinto has no religious laws, to whom did the Japanese turn for these aspects of religion?


5. Read page 271 of your textbook.
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• Why did the Japanese people become stoic about natural disasters?
  


6. Read "Zoom In" on page 272 of your textbook.
   
   Science has proven that the stories the First Nations people of British Columbia tell of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of people about 300 years ago as well as the Japanese legend about a devastating tsunami at about the same time are true.
   
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• Why did the people attribute these disasters to the gods?


7. When you are finished, proceed to the next page.