MYP-五 UNIT 4

Lesson slides

Reading practice

Class jobs

Formative phrases

For formative: 《假期与节日》

1. For the assigned sections, write all: 

pinyin for every character and number (3 pts)

tone marks on all pinyin you wrote (3 pts)

English (2 pts)

2. A one-sentence "will use" statement, in English, about how you think you might use the information from this article for your upcoming poster presentation and reflection essay. It can start like this: "I will use this article in my poster to talk about...". Make sure it connects with this unit's focus and questions (see above).

Article document

For formative: 《冲浪文化周》

1. For the assigned sections, write all: 

pinyin for every character and number (3 pts)

tone marks on all pinyin you wrote (3 pts)

English (2 pts)

2. A one-sentence "will use" statement, in English, about how you think you might use the information from this article for your upcoming poster presentation and reflection essay. It can start like this: "I will use this article in my poster to talk about...". Make sure it connects with this unit's focus and questions (see above).

For formative: 《小贩中心》 

1. For the assigned sections, write all: 

pinyin for every character and number (3 pts)

tone marks on all pinyin you wrote (3 pts)

English (2 pts)

2. A one-sentence "will use" statement, in English, about how you think you might use the information from this article for your upcoming poster presentation and reflection essay. It can start like this: "I will use this article in my poster to talk about...". Make sure it connects with this unit's focus and questions (see above).

Hear these instructions read in videos: part 1, part 2

Poster presentation, using our speech notes format (linked here): Explain your holiday travel plans, including three Chinese speaking countries or places, local holiday dates, foods to eat/try, plus languages and jobs you expect to encounter. Your presentation should explore answers to one Inquiry Question at the top of this webpage. Include the inquiry questions on your poster. If presenting alone, discuss with the teacher what to reduce and focus on, reaching somewhere between all and half the criteria already assigned here.

   IMPORTANT: To follow IB recommended practices around academic honesty, we will use the "Formative phrases" document in the Resources section, above, as a space to co-create original language models to learn from. Instructions are in the document. We will prepare this well in advance of the Formative poster presentation so you have time to study from it.

Poster design must include:

• your inquiry question in Chinese characters

• information from this unit's lesson slides that uses that vocabulary (2 items of information)

• information from this unit's formative reading that uses that vocabulary (2 formative readings)

• information from prior units'  lesson slides that uses that vocabulary (2 items of information)

• information from prior units'  formative reading that uses that vocabulary (2 formative readings)

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

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

• map/s of places you will visit (O‘ahu, China, Singapore, etc.)

• text from one of this unit's Formatives to read from for Reading score (formative, then summative), 55+ characters, plus answer questions about the information in the text you just read

Presentation must include:

• direct use of your in-class speech notes

• 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 as part of your overall speaking score (see rubrics, below)

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 (55+ 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 (155+ characters)

   IMPORTANT: The formative version will be completed in class using only a "cheat sheet" you create, which can only contain hand-copied quotes from our formative texts, slides, readings, and your poster speech notes. All must focus on real cultural information.

Includes the following:

• What did you learn about travel plans 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. The assigned character count (above) is required for any score above 1 to be given. You are allowed to bring a "cheat sheet" for the summative version that contains only direct quotes and the citation title from your readings, in characters and pinyin. No characters or pinyin from outside the relevant readings can be on your cheat sheet.

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

• Remaining MYP summative rubric (linked here) out of 4. The assigned character count (above) is required for any score above 1 to be given.

This final project will happen the week prior to final exams and will serve as practice for the final exams. Note: these also serve as practice to get you familiar with how to talk about your ideas when presenting and writing, as well as how to say the Chinese characters when reading.

Speaking (/8): Present to the class and teacher about your plan for your written final exam essay. 

• See Final Exam writing requirements below

• Use conventional opening, transitions, and closing following our normal speech notes format

• Your presentation should explain all items on the checklist for the final exam Writing (see below)

• Your slides should be mainly pictures

• You can use a card with individual words in Chinese characters but do not read from sentences or phrases

Listening (/8): Listen to questions from all texts from units 3 and 4. Study for this using explainer videos with each reading.

Reading (/8): Follow the instructions on each page for five out of six of the formative texts across units 3 and 4. Some pages will ask you to write pinyin with tone marks and English. Some pages will ask you to draw to show meaning, where some English labels in addition to drawings can be permitted. The holiday calendar of China will be the one calendar in the packet.

You can keep the reading packet to look at when writing.

Writing (/8): Handwrite an essay in Chinese characters (135+ characters) that showcases your learned of the information we explored in units 3 and 4. Include:

• What information (not just language) did you learn from units 3 and 4? Include:

  • all but one of the formative articles in units 3 and 4 (you choose)

  • two slides from each of the units

• What language skills did you learn how to do in units 3 and 4? For example, reading, listening, speaking, writing, quoting, introductions, public speaking, etc.

• What ATL skill/s did you improve upon this semester?

• Cite the formative texts where you learned these things.

• What next steps will you follow to research more about the topics in these units?

• Use essay conventions from our wall poster in class.

The formative readings from units 3 and 4 will be provided in one stapled packet while you write.