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THEMATIC UNIT

王玉立, 高淑惠, 郝晨芳

Chinese Language Curricular Unit

Unit title: Weather/time/shopping/sightseeing

Grade: 8-12

Level: Novice High -Intermediate Low

Subject/Topic Area(s): Four seasons, Time, Shopping, Sightseeing

Key words: 晴天, 阴天, 最高温度, 最低温度, 分明, 气候, 差不多 昨天 今天 明天 时间 星期 日 月 年 早上 上午 下午 晚上 半夜 点 分 刻 半 几 号 差 旗袍 礼物 深 浅 花 杀价 讨价还价 市场 顾客老板 货 信用卡 现金 人民币 换 美金 原价 才 配 帮 拿 试 时髦 名牌 旅游 参观 景点 人山人海 挤 恋恋不舍 坐公共汽车 地铁 出租车 一分钱一分货 好货不便宜，便宜不好货

Standards:

Major standards: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 3.1, 4.2, 5.1

Supporting standards: VA Foreign Language Standard, MFL1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 3.1, 4.2, 5.1

Brief Summary of Unit (@ 5 X 150 minute blocks—Five days

In this unit, students will learn how to describe weather, four seasons, express the feeling, and negotiate when shopping for foods and cloth in Chinese. They will also learn about few Beijing sightseeing places and desscribe their trip experience.

Number of days for activity: Five days

Materials and resources:

Teacher handouts, Power point, Chinese calendar, Beijing sightseeing map, Music/CD, and internet

Identifying Desired Results:

What essential questions will guide this unit and focus teaching/learning?

• What are the differences in weather an seasons in Beijing and Richmond?

• What are the differences in shopping habits and varieties of Chinese traditional clothing?

• What are the different tourist attractions in Beijing?

What key knowledge and skill will students acquire as a result of this unit?

Students will know:

• Vocabularies about weather, seasons, time, shopping, sight seeing, transportation

• Grammatical structures about

• 几月几号、星期几

• “穿”与戴的区别

• 量词总结

• “要”与“想” 的区别

• 跟／和。。。（不） 一样

• 虽然。。。，可是／但是

• 不但…而且

• “比”字句

• “才”的用法

• “被”的用法

• International market fact held In VCU.

Students will be able to

• Describe the weather/seasons

• Use the vocabulary acquired to tell time

• Tell what one’s daily class schedule is.

• Fully participate in casual conversations pertaining to daily life

• Bargain in a culturally appropriate way

What do they already know that will help them learn new information?

The basic vocabulary about four seasons, time, measurement words for pricing total, and words for food, cloth, and sight seeing sites n Beijing.

Where and when did they learn it? They would learn those words from previous level.

Determining Acceptable Evidence

What evidence will show that students understand?

Performance Tasks: Integrated Performance Task: Plan A Summer Trip To China Beijing

• Interpretive tasks

o Scenario while planning a trip to China with his/her friend: Online research of weather report in Beijing and sites they plan to visit about during the travel time.

o Scenario while visiting China to visit sites for sight seeing: gathering information about the visited sites in terms of transportation and map.

• Interactive tasks

o Scenario while planning a trip to China with his/her friend: asking for and giving directions; making purchases in night market (food, souvenirs, gifts);

o Email exchanges to gather information about the sites and the preparations

• Presentational tasks

o Travel packet of the following information:

▪ Cover page

▪ Weekly weather forecast report

▪ Weekly daily schedule and activity

▪ What would you like to shop for food/cloth in the night market

▪ Where to go and how (transpiration)

Other evidence

Works Samples, journal writing, recite, quiz.

Unprompted Evidence (Observations, dialogues): Teachers will assess learners using rubric for interpersonal speaking/writing, interpretive reading, and presentational speaking and writing.

Student Self-Assessment: student will write the daily lesson reflection and learning logs.

Lessons: instructional lesson plan provided for each lesson (See attached daily lesson plan on the bottom)

Lesson 1:Weather/seasons ..\Test Pactice\lesson plan Weather_day one.doc

Lesson 2:Time ..\Test Pactice\lesson plan Time_day two.doc

Lesson 3:Shopping

Lesson 4:Sightseeing

Lesson 5:Review and project Professional Growth Plan for Tina Kao 2008.doc

Links to Relevant Web Sites:





Assessment Blueprint (Performance Tasks)

Task Title: A summer trip to China Beijing

Approximate Time Frame: 100 minutes

Standards:1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2,

Purpose: (Check those that apply)

Formative: on-going assessment: Comprehension throughout the pictures, authentic materials, and conversations based on class activities.

Summative: integrated performance task

Description of Task:

A Summer Trip To China

Direction: You are going to travel to China for summer camp in Beijing. You would like to find out the weather and climate in Beijing during your seven day’s studies in Beijing. You will have a short excursion with your Chinese friend after the summer camp. During your sightseeing, you and your friends want to go to the night market in the city.

Task A – Travel Packet (You can choose using Word, PPT, Poster)

Direction

• All students will be given a few sightseeing seeing sites in Beijing in terms of the activities, itineraries. This handout will be given for pre- readings, to intend to create the interest group for the activity based on the city they choose

• Each group will read and research information on the website

• Each group will decide the cities they would like to visit and explore.

• In the end of planning, each group needs to have their cities’ names, date, time, event/activities, and transportations shown in Chinese characters on the travel packet. Note: your travel packet needs to include

o Cover page to include all names from the group and “Title”

o Weekly weather forecast report

o Weekly daily schedule and activity

o What would you like to shop for food/cloth in the night market

o Where to go and how (transpiration)

o plan for a full week of activities.

Rubric for written task -

|Task Completion |

|Excellent: 10pts |Good: 8-9 pts |Fair: 7pts |Poor: 0-6 pts |

|Very attractive, neat, followed |Neat, attractive, followed |Somewhat neat/ attractive. |Not attractive or neat. Barely |

|directions. Excellent product. Above |directions and completed task |Partly followed directions. |followed directions. Incomplete. |

|what was asked. |adequately. | | |

|Vocabulary | | | |

|Excellent: 10pts |Good: 8-9 pts |Fair: 7pts |Poor: 0-6 pts |

|Excellent variety and correct use of |Good variety and correct use of |Some variety of vocabulary. |Little variety in expressions used |

|vocabulary. No major errors of |vocabulary with minor errors of |Some errors of calligraphy |and/or not correct. Poor |

|calligraphy. |calligraphy. | |calligraphy. |

|Content | | | |

|Excellent: 10pts |Good: 8-9 pts |Fair: 7pts |Poor: 0-6 pts |

|Goes beyond requirements, |Meets requirements, some details |Minimally meets requirements, |Does not meet requirements, |

|many details and excellent use of |and good use of vocabulary |few details, some use of unit |inaccurate or inadequate vocabulary|

|vocabulary | |vocabulary | |

Task B - Study Abroad (unrehearsed interactive oral)

Role Play – In the Night Market

Student directions You are with your Chinese friend visit the Night Market (Based on task A, you should be familiar with shopping in China.). You will act role

American/Chinese Customers

• Greeting

• Ask salesman/woman about the food and cloth items you like to buy

• Ask salesman/woman what they think about the sale item?

• Ask him/her about the price

• Negotiate the price with the salesman/woman

Sale person

• Greeting

• Tell the Customer student about your items

• Tell the Customer student how much they cost

• Provide the suggestions to customers

• Negotiate the price with the student

• Thank the student for his/her purchase

Evidence of desired understanding: student is able to complete task for creating a travel packet, and role-play, in terms of task completion.

Criteria of judgments: task completion, expression, grammar, presentations

Evaluative Tools: (check those that apply)

Analytical Rubric

|Criteria |10 – exceeds standard |9-8 – meets standard |7 standard barely met |6-0 standard not met |

|Task completion |Interesting, creative, followed |Followed directions. |Partly followed |Barely followed |

|_______ pts |directions.. Above what was asked.|Interesting, completed |directions. |directions. Incomplete. |

| | |accurately and adequately. | | |

|Expressions |Excellent variety of appropriate |Uses a variety of appropriate |Repetitive or lacking in |Little use of appropriate |

|_____ pts |expressions overall and from the |expressions correctly that come|appropriate expressions |expressions and/or no |

| |unit (beyond what was asked). No |from the unit and from previous|and/or lacking in |variety. Little or no use|

| |errors. |knowledge. |expressions from the unit.|of expressions from the |

| | | | |unit. |

|Grammar |Excellent use of grammar |Succeeds in using grammar |Some errors in use of |Little correct use of |

|_____ pts |structures with no errors. Uses |structures with minor errors |grammar structures |grammar structures. Little|

| |new structures from this unit. |that do not interfere |(including grammar from |or no use of grammar |

| |Tries more difficult structures. |w/comprehension (including the |this unit). |structures from this unit.|

| | |grammar from this unit). | | |

|Presentation |Pronunciation and delivery enhance|Minor errors in pronunciation; |A few errors in |Several errors in |

|______ pts |comprehension. Delivery smooth and|still 100% comprehensible. |pronunciation that |pronunciation that |

| |fluent. |Delivery smooth with some |interfere with |interfere with |

| | |hesitation. |comprehension. Delivery |comprehension. Long pauses|

| | | |choppy. |and/or choppy throughout |

| | | | |delivery. |

Checklist: self check in terms of travel packet

| |Yes/No |Point |

|Do you have a cover page ? | |5 |

|Weather forecast report? | |5 |

|Daily activity | |5 |

|Shopping items list | |5 |

|Sightseeing information, includes, name, site, and transportation to| |5 |

|places, pictures | | |

Assessment Blueprint (Other Evidence)

Journal Entry: Use words/phrases learned from lessons.

Write a short paragraph in which you describe your typical daily routine.

-OR-

Write a paragraph in which you describe your travel experience.

Journal rubric

|CONTENT |9-10 Excellent |8-8.5 Good |7-7.5 Satisfactory |0- 6.5 Unsatisfactory |

| |Goes beyond requirements, |Meets requirements, some |Minimally meets requirements,|Does not meet requirements, |

| |many details and excellent use |details and good use of |few details, some use of unit|inaccurate or inadequate |

| |of vocabulary |vocabulary |vocabulary |vocabulary |

|Content score | | | | |

|ACCURACY |9-10 Excellent |8-8.5Good |7-7.5 Satisfactory |0-6 Unsatisfactory |

| |Accuracy enhances communication|Inaccuracies do not impede |Inaccuracies sometimes impede|Frequent inaccuracies are a major|

| | |communication |communication |obstacle to communication |

|Accuracy score | | | | |

|TOTAL | | | | |

|SCORE (out of 20) | | | | |

Recite poem and act: Recite the poem “Chun Xia”

It is on-going assessment: students will be asked to write the journal about the daily reflection and topics, like daily routine, and travel experience.

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