33900/33950 *Chinese 5

Course Name: *CHINESE 5

Course Number: 33900/33950

Open to: Grades 11-12

Length: 2 semesters

Credits: 1 credit

Prerequisites: Successful completion of *Chinese 4 or Consent of Instructor or Department Chair.

Content: Chinese 5 class is an advanced level course and is designed to enhance student’s sophisticated spontaneous conversational, reading and writing skills by combining instruction materials with students’ own experiences and explorations of Chinese speaking societies, using authentic human, literacy and electronic resources. Students’ understanding of special features of Chinese society, its culture, customs and habits, its history and people perspectives will be deepened and further discussed in Chinese. This class consists of providing students comprehensible input in order to enhance their listening, speaking, reading, writing skills, as well abilities in self-regulated language and culture study via resources online. The goal is that by the end of Chinese 5, students will be living in the Intermediate Mid to high area by the ACTFL world language standards.

Course Activities:

• • Comprehensible Input

  • TPRS (Teaching proficiency through reading and storytelling)

  • Novel reading

  • Movie talk

  • Picture talk

  • Projects

  • Sustained silent reading

  • Timed writing and free write

  • Free voluntary reading

Cost: None