{"id":46,"date":"2020-05-16T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2020-09-10T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:23:52","slug":"ch20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch20\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 20 &#8211; The Dainty China Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #993300\">What happens?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Dorothy and her friends climb up to see what is on the other side of the wall. They find brightly coloured houses, people and animals, all made of china, and all scared of being broken. Dorothy wants to take a princess home for Aunt Em, but the princess says she would be very unhappy. She would have to stand completely still, whereas in her own country she can move about as she likes. Dorothy and her friends say goodbye to the china princess and walk carefully through the china country.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #993300\">Have a think ..<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><em>Take a moment to think about these questions:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why do you think the Dainty China country had a high wall around it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>one is never so pretty after being mended, you know<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think this is true? Does it apply to real people?\u00a0Can you think of a time when you broke something? What happened?<\/p>\n<p>Do you or your relatives have any china figures? What do they look like? Do you like them?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #993300\">Focus on .. ceramics<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The Dainty China country is full of people, creatures and buildings made from china, which is a kind of pottery or ceramic. How much do you know about ceramics?<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #993300\">Find out more<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kids.britannica.com\/kids\/article\/ceramics\/400210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ceramics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People have been making ceramic items for thousands of years, usually from clay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kids Try Making Pottery with a Potter | Kids Meet | HiHo Kids\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vc3HSohIdNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Clay is used to make all sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c2QsL4gy4yE<\/p>\n<p>Clay is incredibly strong once it&#8217;s baked, and it can last for centuries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The incredible history of China&#039;s terracotta warriors - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mP5p4QbvPtc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Of course, sometimes things go wrong. One day, a couple of thousand years ago, someone was making the roof for the Roman bathhouse in Strathclyde Park, when a dog ran across their tiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antoninewall.org\/media-galleries\/artefacts-other-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roof tile from Antonine Wall<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #993300\">Challenge yourself!<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The earliest writing we have is actually on clay tablets. It comes from the country that used to be called Babylon and is now called Iraq. It is written in an alphabet called cuneiform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penn.museum\/cgi\/cuneiform.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Use this website<\/a> to learn how to write your own name in cuneiform. Try copying it out for yourself!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #993300\">More to explore<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>If you loved this chapter, why not check out some more ideas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch20\/collections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149310433 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149310433 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">Collections<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch20\/cows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cows<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch20\/delicate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149310433 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149310433 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">Delicate children<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch20\/walls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149310433 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149310433 BCX0\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Normal (Web)\">Walls<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #993300\">More to read<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>These books should be available through your secondary school librarian. If we\u2019ve found a free version online, we\u2019ve added the link after each book.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4VwAYc7dsUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willow Pattern<\/a><\/em>. A poem by Tony Mitton telling the story of the willow pattern, a common ceramic design.<\/p>\n<p><i>The wolves in the walls<\/i> by Neil Gaiman. What if something was actually living inside your walls?<\/p>\n<p><em>The carpet people<\/em> by Terry Pratchett. A story of people so small, they actually live in your carpet, until the Fray&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/em> by Jonathan Swift. Gulliver travels to all sorts of strange lands including Lilliput where the people are tiny.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jack and the Beanstalk\u00a0<\/i>a fairy tale where the cow has an important role. <a href=\"https:\/\/fairytalez.com\/jack-and-the-beanstalk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/43936\/43936-h\/43936-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now read Chapter 21 : The Lion becomes King of the Beasts<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens? Dorothy and her friends climb up to see what is on the other side of the wall. They find brightly coloured houses, people and animals, all made of china, and all scared of being broken. Dorothy wants to take a princess home for Aunt Em, but the princess says she would be very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/ch20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chapter 20 &#8211; The Dainty China Country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/schliboz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}