CritERIA

LISTENING

L1. Interactive listening formative

Meet individually with 芮老师. Show understanding of the teacher's questions in Mandarin and answer each question in Mandarin, all about the main text. (/image /video)

Scoring rubric here

L2. Original video listening formative

Practice listening to this YouTube video, just the part transcribed in the document script (link). You will listen and write the pinyin and English for any eight lines of your choosing (8 pts). 

Only the original video will be played, one part at a time with replays optional. Scoring will be based on accuracy in the pinyin and general accuracy in the English.

L3. Randomized listening formative

You will hear 8 random sentences from your audio file. Write the English meaning of each sentence (no pinyin, no characters) (8 pts).

L4. Randomized video listening formative

Practice listening to the ten contiguous phrases in a row said in this YouTube video (https://youtu.be/da7XhLFSAPA?t=406); phrases numbered 19 through 28. You will listen and write the pinyin and English for any seven of your choosing out of those ten. Only the fast versions will be played. The order played will be randomized. Scoring will be based on accuracy in the pinyin (4 pts) and general accuracy in the English (4 pts).

We can think about this saying from research: "words that are used together, fuse together." These common Chinese phrases, said this fast, are perfect examples of this phenomenon.

L5. Randomized audio listening formative

Segments of audio from a part of the article will be played (selected together in class). Write characters and English for those segments you hear. The text will not be available during this assessment.

L6. DP Exam format listening

This will resemble IB DP reading exam question types (ABC, not character writing). Texts from this semester will NOT be available.

L7. Time stamp listening

You will see questions we made together in class, plus a timestamp to find in the recording. Listen to the answer and write the answer in ***pinyin***.

READING

R1. Read aloud formative

Read aloud every word and then discuss the text (given, or of your choosing) (out of 8 pts). We will complete these one person at a time outside the classroom, each person completing the Mandarin read-aloud and then answer questions about the article all (listening and speaking) in Mandarin.

The audio link in the article document will help you identify how to say each word. Using Google Translate can help check meaning and pinyin.

R2. Whole text transcription formative

1. Write pinyin above every line for every character in the text (4 pts).

2. Choose three lines to write accurate tone marks on the pinyin (1 pt).

3. Write meaning for each whole sentence under each sentence. You do not need to translate every word or follow the original Chinese word order of the sentence. Just plain English with accurate meaning is required (3 pts).

Suggestion: listening over and over will make writing the pinyin easier to remember.

R3. Text discussion summative

Discuss with your teacher the information in the text (4 pts). Connect your personal experiences and opinions (2 pts), plus knowledge of society and culture, with your responses (2 pts).

R4. Randomized box transcription formative

Line numbers will be provided to refer to numbered lines in the article. Write pinyin and English for those numbered lines.

R5. DP Exam format reading

Follow instructions and respond as directed. Texts from this unit will be available.

R6. Contiguous transcription

Choose 21 continuous lines. Write accurate pinyin with tone marks (4 pts) and sentence meaning in English (3 pts).

SPEAKING

S1. Text discussion summative

(this is the same description as R3. Text discussion summative, above)

Discuss with your teacher the information in the text (4 pts). Connect your personal experiences and opinions (2 pts), plus knowledge of society and culture, with your responses (2 pts).

S2. Individual Oral exam (mock or real; real is one-shot)

Present about a picture and then have a conversation about what you just said. Extend to information about culture and/or society in your presentation and in the conversation that follows.

DP speaking rubric

S2. Text discussion

We will discuss a text in a free-flow conversation, similar to the IO IA. Questions will include concrete information in the text, as well as inferential types of questions about what the people would likely do, along with questions that connect to larger society. Choose one of this unit's texts. You will have the text to look at while discussing. Scoring will use the DP IA rubric, below.

DP speaking rubric

WRITING

W1. Handwritten text by format

Hand-write a document (IB formats below) to a relevant audience with your reflections about the articles. Include three quotes from what is written, and a question for each quote (我还想知道。。。). Your questions need to show understanding of the text. You will have a clean copy of the articles to reference when completing this.

DP writing rubric

W2. Big Formative explanation

This Big Formative will check that we are gearing up toward learning A LOT of vocabulary needed for the DP exams. Learning vocabulary here means building up a sense of what words are most commonly used IN WHAT CONTEXTS, what each word mean IN THOSE CONTEXTS, and an ability to string it all together to understand the BIGGER MESSAGES being communicated by a text, recording, or conversation.