The Five Constant Relationships
Collage Activity

 
  • Use a different piece of paper for each of the five relationships.

  • Locate images of pairs or groups of people representing the five different relationships identified by Confucius (if you don't recall what these five are, review your reading or online lecture notes). In this case, the related people should appear together in the same picture. Use several images for each relationship and try to include at least one image for each of the five that is a relationship in your own life! (e.g. you and your brother, you and your mother, your parents, you and your spouse, you and your friend - what relationship are you in that would represent a "subject-ruler" relationship? Think creatively if you have to)

  • Group and paste images representing the each relationship onto the papers.

  • Label each collection of images with the appropriate relationship 

  • Five pages total, each displaying a different relationship. You may want to connect the pages in some way - e.g., by linking them together using ribbon.

Here's what one student did

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Created by Laura Ellen Shulman 

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Last updated: May 03, 2005