Marking Period 4 Booklet Project: Countries, Nationalities and Languages

Countries, Nationalities and Languages Booklet Project

*Click here to view or print the handout to help you with the project

Due date:   Week of 05/13- 05/17    

Mr. Shi’s E-mail:  mrshi@theemersonschool.org

Mr. Shi’s Blog:   "Mr. Shi's Chinese classroom" @ shilaoshichinese.blogspot.com

For this project, you are going to create a mini booklet with 4 pages. ALL writing should be in BOTH CHINESE AND ENGLISH

Requirements for this project (check off before submitting your project):

 Cover page:

  1. Title: Either    Countries, Nationalities and Languages/Guójiā, Guójí hé Yǔyán

                                            or     A Diverse World /Duóyuán huà de Shìjiè

  2. Your name and Class number

  3. A picture symbolizing diversity.    Examples: a salad bowl,   a globe, a collage with many languages etc.

1^st Page:

 Question for asking nationality in both Chinese and English.

 Answer for yourself (use hé-and if you use multiple) *Refer to handout Sentences 1.

 Pick a famous person who is the same nationality as you are and say “-- yě shì XX rén” / -- is also…” *

 Have a picture of that famous person AND/OR country map or flag representing the nationality.

2^nd Page:

 Question for asking “What language can you speak” in both Chinese and English.

 Answer for yourself (use hé-and if you use multiple) *Refer to handout Sentences 2.

 Pick a famous person who can speak the same language and say “-- yě huì shuō… /-- can also speak…”

 Have a picture of that famous person AND/OR country map or flag representing the language.

3^rd Page:

 Question for asking “What language do you speak at home” in both Chinese and English.

 Answer for yourself (use hé-and if you use multiple) *Refer to handout Sentences 3.

 Pick a famous person who speaks the language at home and say “--zài jiā yě shuō… /-- also speaks… at home”

 Have a picture of that famous person AND/OR country map or flag representing the nationality.

*You have to put yě/also in front of shì or huì, otherwise, it is wrong.

Project Rubrics:

	Poor	Fair	Good	Excellent
Adherence to Project Directions	Project does a poor job of adhering to directions	Project does a fair job adhering to directions	Project does a good job adhering to directions	Project does an excellent job adhering to directions
Accuracy of information	Generally not accurate, has errors consistent throughout the book	Somewhat accurate, has large amount of (7-8) errors in writing or grammar	Generally accurate, has occasional (3-4) errors in writing or grammar	Very accurate information with no errors in writing or grammar
Creativity/ Appeal to readers	Shows no creativity, ways of presenting not appealing to readers	Shows some creativity, ways of presenting not appealing to readers	Shows good creativity, ways of presenting catches readers’ attention	Shows great creativity, ways of presenting very appealing to readers
Appearance	No bounding, the product doesn’t resemble the format of a book/poster	The product minimally resembles the format of a book/poster	Clean, the product resembles the format of a book/poster	Appealing aesthetically, ready-to-publish-format book/poster

Extra Credits: 3 points for paper submission, 3 points for submitting project before Week of 05/13-05/17,  3 points for writing Chinese characters instead of Pinyin.

Sample Cover

Sample 1st page:

Sample 2nd page

Sample 3rd page: