Saturday, July 11, 2015

Radical Picture Book Project (100 points,Due Wednesday,July 22nd)

Requirements for Radical Picture Book Project * Have an introduction paragraph (in English) to introduce Chinese radicals to your readers Wikipedia entry on Chinese Radicals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(Chinese_characters)
* At least 20 radicals
* Have a PICTURE of the character on each page
*All characters need to be hand-written
*Have a cover page, include a title to your book (some names you can use include:
部首書-Chinese radical book, 我的部首書-My Radical Book 部首圖畫書 --Radical picture book
*Have a back cover page that is empty
* Beside the radical (and its variant form if there is one) and picture, you must include at least 4 other information. You can choose from: Pinyin, English meaning, stroke count, stroke order, Evolution of the character, word examples with English meaning and anything you feel is appropriate for this project.
*Have the book organized by chapters; each chapter should be a category. Some ideas for categories includes: body part, nature, animal, family, daily life, farm, 

Some useful links for your book
Chineseliteracy.net: http://www.chineseliteracy.net/login/login.php (userID: Startalk; password: Class2014). Go to Volume 1 Chapter 4 to learn about detail of 20 most common radicals. Go to Radical Chart and then Kangxi Radicals Traditional Form. Look up character by stroke count.
* Arch Chinese: http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_dictionary.html
*Show evolution (different forms of the character in history) of the characters

 Or Search the radical at:  http://www.fantizi5.com/ziyuan/ it will show evolution.

Radical List you can choose from, but you are not limited to those

People:  人(亻), 女, 子, 父,母, 身, 肉(月)

Animals牛, 羊, 馬, 鳥, 魚,豕, 犬(犭), 虫

Daily life 衣,食,广,門,行,走, 車,言, 工

Nature金,木,水(氵),火(灬),土, 山, 竹(⺮), 石

Farm日,雨,田, 米,禾, 刀(刂), 弓,  

Body Parts:手, 足,心, 口, 目, 耳, 骨


Sample Page

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