MINI-GRANT SETS FOR NCTA TEACHERS 2013
For your school’s mini-grant, you have two options. You can create a list of the materials that you want, suited to your needs OR you can select one of the pre-approved sets below.
OPTION 1: Customized Mini-grant
Use the NCTA Teacher Portal to explore materials to include as part of your mini-grant order (you are not limited to items listed on the Portal, however). Many materials listed on this portal include full descriptions of the items, URLs to purchasing sites like Amazon.com, and reviews by other teachers.
Completely fill out the Mini-Grant Order form and submit it to your seminar leader for approval.
Once your mini-grant request has been approved, you will receive a $200 check made out to your school (or school district). This check will be mailed to your home address, and it is your responsibility to make sure that the appropriate person at your school is given this check. You will be responsible for ordering materials or arranging for the ordering of materials by an associate at your school.
OPTION 2: Pre-Approved Mini-grant Sets
You may choose one of the Pre-Approved Mini-grant Sets (listed below, or found on our website at However, two teachers from the same school should not select the same set. Teachers should check with any previous NCTA alumni at their school to make sure that the materials from whatever sets they order are not duplicating materials the school already has. You always have the option to create a list that meets your needs and the needs of your school better (Option 1 above).
Completely fill out the Mini-Grant Order form and submit it to your seminar leader for approval, checking the appropriate “Pre-Approved Minigrant Set” box. Make sure you fill out the rest of the form as requested, including the paragraph on how you plan to use these materials.
All of these materials listed in these sets can be found in the NCTA portal, where you will find full descriptions of the items, URLs to purchasing sites like Amazon.com, and reviews by other teachers.
Once your mini-grant request has been approved, you will receive a $200 check made out to your school (or school district). This check will be mailed to your home address, and it is your responsibility to make sure that the appropriate person at your school is given this check. You will be responsible for ordering materials or arranging for the ordering of materials by an associate at your school.
Please Note: These sets should cost around $200 excluding shipping. Please be aware of the fact that prices change, however, and the cost may depend on how (or from whom) your school orders their materials.
SET A: FOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL
Book/Korea: Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard Kim[currently: $16.19]
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 1998 (paperback) or later reprint
ISBN: 978-0-520-21424-8
Book/China: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China [currently: $11.32]
Publisher: Touchstone
Date: 2003 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-0743246989
Book/Japan:Anthology of Japanese Literature: from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Donald Keene, ed.[currently: $11.83]
Publisher: Grove Press
Date: 1994 (paperback)
ISBN-10: 0802150586
DVD/Japan:Kokoyaku (High School Baseball; documentary)[currently: $19.95]
CustomFlix (2006)
ASIN: B000GYI2H8
Curriculum Unit:Along the Silk Road (SPICE)[currently: $85]
Curriculum Unit:Religions and Philosophies in China: Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism [currently: $59.95]
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)
SET B: FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL
Book/China: Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang [currently: $7.99]
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date: 2008
ISBN:978-0061667718
Book/China: The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention by Robert K. Temple with foreword by Joseph Needham [currently: $18.71]
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Date: 2007
ISBN-10: 1594772177
Book/Korea: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park [currently: $6.99]
Publisher: Linda Sue Park
Date: 2009
ASIN: B004IGY220
Note: there is also a recent Sandpiper reprint (2011)
ISBN: 978-0547534268
Book/Japan: The Girl with the White Flag, by Tomiko Higa [currently: $9.12]
Publisher: Kodansha International
Date: 2003
ISBN-10: 4770029314
DVD/Japan:Spirited Away, by Hayao Miyazaki [currently: $17.49]
Distributed by Walt Disney Video
ASIN: B00005JLEU
DVD/Japan: Kokoyaku (High School Baseball; documentary) [currently: $19.95]
CustomFlix (2006)
ASIN: B000GYI2H8
Curriculum Unit/China:10,000 Shovels: China’s Urbanization and Development[currently: $40]
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)
Curriculum Unit: Religions and Philosophies in China: Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism [currently: $59.95]
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)
SET C: FOR ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Book/China: Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang [currently: $7.99]
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0061667718
Book/China:Daisy Come Home by Jan Brett[currently: $6.99]
Publisher: Puffin
Date: 2005
ISBN:978-0142402702
Book/China: The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen [currently: $6.99]
Publisher: Philomel
Date: 1988
ISBN-10: 0399214992
Book/China: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young [currently: $6.99]
Publisher: Puffin
Date: 1996 edition
ISBN-10: 0698113829
Book/Korea: Long Long Time Ago: Korean Folk Tales by Hollym International Corp. with illustrations by Dong-sung Kim [currently: $24.50]
Publisher: Hollym International Corporation
Date: 2008 edition
ISBN-10: 1565912543
Book/Korea: The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale by Yumi Heo [currently: $6.95]
Publisher: Sandpiper
Date: 2004
ISBN-10: 0618432280
Book/Korea: The Firekeeper’s Son by Linda Sue Park [currently: $6.99]
Publisher: Sandpiper
Date: 2009 edition
ISBN-10: 0547237693
Book/Japan: Kamishibai Man by Allen Say [currently: $12.75]
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date: 2005 edition
ISBN-10: 0618479546
Book/Japan: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr [currently: $5.99]
Publisher: Puffin
Date: 2004 edition
ISBN-10: 0142401137
Book/Japan: The Adventure of Momotaro, the Peach Boy (Kodansha’s Children’s Classics) by Ralph F. McCarthy [currently: $9.95]
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Date: 2000
ISBN-10: 4770020988
DVD/China: Please Vote for Me by Luo Lei [currently: $13.30]
Director: Wiejun Chen
Date: 2008
ASIN: B0019Z3P5W
[In Chinese with English subtitles]
DVD/China: Wild China (BBC Video) [currently: $24.83]
Director: BBC Video/BBC Warner
Date: 2008 release
ASIN: B0016I0AH8
DVD/Japan:My Neighbor Totoro (Japan)) [currently: $19.95]
By Hayao Miyzaki; can be watched dubbed in English or subtitled
Distributed by Disney Presents Studio Ghibli
Date: 2010
ASIN: B002ZTQV8Y
Curriculum Unit/Japan: Haiku Moment: Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand, Elementary version[currently: $31.95]
Publisher: SPICE (Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education)
Date: 1995 edition