HS Chinese Class

• 5/10 Workbook p. 153, 154. Due 5/11
• 5/11 Workbook p. 155, 156. Due 5/12
• 5/12 Research Project: Researching Chinese language (see below). Due 5/14
• 5/14 Continue Research Project: Researching Chinese language (see below). Due 5/17
• Note This is your research project for the trimester (it is 10% of your grade).

语言文化比较

Language Comparison Research

1. What differences can you think of that distinguish English from Chinese?

2. Compare the Roman alphabet (26 letters) and Chinese radicals (56 basic).

3. Compare phonetic system used in English to the pictographic system used in Chinese writing. Can English words function separate from how they sound? Can Chinese words?

4. Compare the writing implements. How does this affect the language and how it is used? Choose an aspect of the Chinese language or writing system that you want to research. This can be whatever aspect of the language you find most interesting. For example, calligraphy, pictograms, early development, radicals, how to use a dictionary, signs, signature seals, idioms, etc. Choose a narrowly defined topic to research.

Example internet resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

http://www.uvm.edu/~chinese/characters/

http://www.mandarintools.com/ http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(Chinese)#Name_seals_.E5.90.8D.E5.8D.B0

Please do not print anything out, just take notes, bookmark pictures/illustrations of your topic and explain to the class what you learned. Use/show examples in your presentation to class.

Using Work book page 119, write your own passage about one of your school days and then record it in Voice Thread. Here is the link.

• 5/4 Lesson 12 Quiz on vocabulary and sentences.

• 5/3 Review Lesson 12. Answer the questions. Due 5/4.
• 5/4 Workbook p. 124. Due 5/5.
• 5/5 Workbook p. 125. Due 5/7.
• 5/7 Workbook p. 126. Due 5/10.

• 5/6 Unit Quiz

• 5/4 Review Lesson 4, 5. Bring your questions to the class.
• 5/5 Review Lesson 6, 7. Bring your questions to the class.
• 5/6 Research Chinese Characters. (see below) Due 5/10.
• 5/7 Research Chinese Characters. (see below) Due 5/10.

语言文化比较

Language Comparison Research

1. What differences can you think of that distinguish English from Chinese?

2. Compare the Roman alphabet (26 letters) and Chinese radicals (56 basic).

3. Compare phonetic system used in English to the pictographic system used in Chinese writing. Can English words function separate from how they sound? Can Chinese words?

4. Compare the writing implements. How does this affect the language and how it is used? Choose an aspect of the Chinese language or writing system that you want to research. This can be whatever aspect of the language you find most interesting. For example, calligraphy, pictograms, early development, radicals, how to use a dictionary, signs, signature seals, idioms, etc. Choose a narrowly defined topic to research.

Example internet resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

http://www.uvm.edu/~chinese/characters/

http://www.mandarintools.com/ http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(Chinese)#Name_seals_.E5.90.8D.E5.8D.B0

Please do not print anything out, just take notes, bookmark pictures/illustrations of your topic and explain to the class what you learned.

• 5/5 Unit Quiz Lesson 15, 16, 17.

• 5/3 Unit Review p. 146, 147. Due 5/5.
• 5/5 Listen to CD, read Textbook p 100, 101.
• 5/6 Workbook p. 157 vocabulary, 159. Due 5/7.
• 5/7 Workbook p. 152. Due 5/10.

Go to http://voicethread.com/share/1098392/ Voice Thread or click here. Listen to my recorded questions and record your answers.

You may need to sign in with a user name and password. Listen to the questions I have recorded and record your answer. You can re-rerecord as many times as you like. To delete just hover over your icon and click on the trash can.

Go to http://voicethread.com/share/1101605/ Voice Thread or click here. Listen to my recorded questions and record your answers.

You may need to sign in with a user name and password. Listen to the questions I have recorded and record your answer. You can re-rerecord as many times as you like. To delete just hover over your icon and click on the trash can.

• 4/27 Workbook p. 53. Use Textbook Lesson 6 Lesson 7 for reverence. Due 4/28.
• 4/28 Workbook p. 53, 55. Due 4/29.
• 4/29 Workbook p. 58, 59. Due 4/30.
• 4/30 Workbook p. 60, 61. Due 5/4.

• 4/26 Workbook p. 121, 122. Due 4/27.
• 4/27 Record your answers to Textbook p. 86, #5. You can record on your phone or computer or post to Voice Thread see link below or click here. To use Voice Thread register or sign in with your email address and a password and follow the instructions to post a voice “comment” on the photo that is posted there. Due 4/28.
• http://voicethread.com/share/1098392/
• 4/28 Workbook p. 127. Due 4/30.
• 4/30 We will check homework through Lesson 12.