Reminder for the Last Day of Class on Thursday

* The next class on Thursday will be the last session of this course. Your final is 9:00 am -11:00 am on May 21st @ HW409. For the next class:

• Next class is the last class to summit handwritten copy of one of 三字經， 千字文 or 百家姓 to get your lowest quiz grade replaced
• Think of any questions you want to ask for the final exam
• For the calligraphy class， bring some newspapers to be placed under the 宣紙 （You are very welcome to bring your calligraphy tools）  
• Preview the basic strokes of  歐體 （歐陽詢楷書體）（The playlist of  歐陽詢基本筆法入門 is linked here)

The following is a calligraphy education video made by 

Taiwan's National Academy for Educational Research:

We will emulate the Kaishu style of Ouyang Xun 歐陽詢 as it is the style that most beginners start with. After you have mastered all the basic strokes, the recommended way to practice your Chinese calligraphy to emulate the style of actual classics. Ouyang Xun (歐陽詢)'s 九成宮醴泉銘 is the one that has been most modeled after for over a thousand years.

歐體《九成宮醴泉銘》-- 田英章

Review Sheet for Final Exam on Thursday, May 21st 9:00 am -11:00 am (@ HW409)

The Final Exam will cover Lesson 6-10 and 小貓釣魚 of Elementary Chinese. The final will cover about one third of material from Lesson 6-8 and the other two third will cover Lesson 9-10 and 小貓釣魚.

The exam will run 2 hours and will cover the following:

1. Dication on vocabulary SINCE the midterm. You need to write the character, Pinyin and meaning of the words read to you .

2. Listening Comprehension (format similar to that of midterm)

3. Speaking: you will be asked to read one of the text or dialogue from Lesson 9-10, you will be graded on the accuracy, as well as the fluency of your reading.

4. Calligraphy Style and tools identification: when given any calligraphy work ( 字帖），you should be able to identify what style of calligraphy it is.  Make sure that you how how to write:  篆書， 隸書， 楷書， 行書， and 草書. Make sure you know to identify and write the characters of calligraphy tools 文房四寶： 筆墨紙硯。

5. Fill-in-blank: it will cover grammar points covered in Lesson 6﹣10 and 小貓釣魚

6. Error correction: you will be ask to write sentence in correct form. 

7. Translation ：Majority of sentences will be picked from the textbook and the rest will be from PPT we covered in class. （Lesson 6﹣10 and 小貓釣魚）
Lesson 6 PPT, Lesson 7 PPT, Lesson 8 PPT

Lesson 9 PPT 1,  Lesson 9 Dialogue, Lesson 10 (1), Lesson 10 (2), Lesson 10

8. Essay topic will be one of following：
1）What do Americans do  on Thanksgiving 美國人感恩節做什麼？
2）Americans and Automobiles 美國人和車
                        

9. Extra Credit: There will be 3 extra credit on the exam. Materials would be drawn from contents on this blog since the beginning of the semester.

Presentation 報告

We will start presentation starting second half of class on Thursday and will continue from beginning of class on Monday next week. Please make sure to arrive on time and have your files ready for presentation!

The order, date，presenter and the corresponding topic are as follows:

*Look at the rubrics carefully to see what is expected of you. I will add a peer-reviewed portion for the grading purpose also.