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              The Road They Took: Confucian Ethics Supple-  The Road They Took: Confucian Ethics Sup-
               mentary Reading Book for Secondary Three  plementary Reading Book for Secondary Four
               Death of the Patriotic Poet Qu Yuan    Li Ligu, a Man of Filial Piety and
                                                   Brotherhood
              A Good Example of Brotherly Love (Nie Rong   Japanese Confucianists Who Were Prag-
                died for his brother, the happy time of the  matists (Seika Fujiwara, Hayashi Raza,
                Sima brothers, Wang Zheng had a good  Nakae Tōju, and Yamazaki Ansai)
                sister)
              Sima Qian Wrote The Records of the Grand  III Characters Who Embodied the Spirit of
                Historian                          Confucianism
              Su Wu Shepherding Sheep for  Years   Lin Xiangru, a True Brave Man
              Ban Chao, Who Joined the Army    Zhuge Liang, a Good Strategist
              Guan Yu, Who Valued Friendship and   Du Fu, the Poet Sage
                Righteousness
              The Divine Doctor Hua Tuo        Han Yu, Who Revived Confucianism
              Heroines Hua Mulan and Qiu Jin   Fan Zhongyan, Who Thought of Others in
                                                   Every Way
              Guo Ziyi, Who Made a Great Contribution to   Bao Gong, Who Was Selfless and Iron-
                Pacifying the Rebellion            Faced
              The Frugal and Honest Sima Guang   Wen Tianxiang Would Rather Die Than
                                                   Surrender
              Li Shizhen Climbed the Mountain to Collect   Zhu Shunshui, Who Did Not Want to Be a
                Herbs                              Slave in a Fallen Country
              Railway Expert Zhan Tianyou      Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing
                                                   Government
                                                 Two Chinese Singaporeans Who Sowed
                                                   the Seeds of Confucianism—Lim Boon
                                                   Keng and Khoo Seok Wan



                The workbooks for students also come in two volumes, secondary three and
             four respectively, with “exercises” based on the content of the various passages at
             each grade level, “to help students gain a better understanding of the ethical
             concepts they have learned.” These “exercises” include fillers, multiple-choice
             questions, quizzes, sentence completion, word explanations, short text compre-
             hension quizzes.
                The Confucian Ethics Curriculum Development Team also developed two sets
             of teacher’s manuals for teachers of secondary three and four grades. It is stated
             that these manuals “are designed to help the teachers to understand the content,
             main points, teaching procedures, audio-visual materials, and suggested activities
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