MYP-四 UNIT 1

Intro resources

Welcome slides

Lesson slides

Reading practice

Class jobs

Text document: 《我们的校园》(click)

We will co-create a text of 60+ characters with images to describe what is true about our campus. It will focus on spaces we use.

For formative:

1. Write pinyin above each character in our text (3 pts).

2. Write English meaning under each sentence (2 pts).

3. Choose two lines to write accurate tone marks on the pinyin (3 pt).

Article document: 《空中菜园》

For formative:

1. Write pinyin above each character in our text (2 pts), with accurate tone marks on one sentence of your choice (3 pts).

2. Write English meaning under each sentence (3 pts).

Text document: 《未来的校园》

We will co-create a text of 60+ characters with images to describe what could become true about our campus in the future. It will focus on new spaces we could use.

1. Write pinyin above each character in our text (4 pts).

2. Write English meaning under each sentence (3 pts).

3. Choose two lines to write accurate tone marks on the pinyin (1 pt).

Poster presentation, using our speech notes format (linked here): Explain your campus of the future. Your presentation should explore answers to two of the Inquiry Questions at the top of this webpage.

Poster design must include:

• maximized use of projector or TV screen space (horizontal orientation)

• hand-created on poster paper, though print resources can be glued or taped onto poster paper

• map/s of current campus

• text to read from for Reading score (formative, then summative), 20+ characters

• information from our lesson slides that uses that vocabulary (2 items of information)

• information from our formative reading that uses that vocabulary (2 formative readings)

• an addition to your campus that we have not yet focused on together

• imaginative images superimposed onto photographs of real places on your campus

Presentation must include:

• use of opening, transitions, & closing from speech notes format (linked here)

• roughly equal speaking from both presenters (if two people are presenting)

• coherent message 

• clear understanding of what you said to answer questions for the Listening score (formative, then summative)

Scoring is for: 

• Speaking: present information and then answer questions about the content and inquiry tied to your poster and presentation (see rubrics below)

• Reading: read aloud Chinese character sentences (10+ characters) from a text we read in our formative assessments in this unit. The information you read should support the inquiry of your overall presentation. Following your whole presentation, answer questions about the text, including information that you did not directly read aloud in your presentation, but were part of the text we discussed earlier in this unit. In other words, get to know the text we learned in class.

• MYP formative rubrics for speaking and reading (linked here)

• MYP summative rubrics for speaking and reading (linked here)

Handwrite an essay in Chinese characters (80+ characters) that includes the following:

• What did you learn about campus design from this unit?

• What skills did you learn how to do in this unit?

• Cite materials we learned from to explain where you learned these things.

• What useful phrases did you use a lot in this unit?

• What next steps will you follow to research more about the topic in this unit?

Scoring follows:

• MYP formative rubric (linked here) out of 8

  • 4 summative points based on formative read-aloud ( /2) and Q&A ( /2); feedback given

• Remaining MYP summative rubric (linked here) out of 4