LHS 中文一
Project 4: 中国的节日
四月七日 – 五月二十七日
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Goals:
1) To gain a deeper understanding of the course’s Essential Understanding:
Everyone is a unique individual with a set of traditions, personal interests and hopes, with
support from family and friends;
2) To be able to describe and talk about one of the traditional Chinese festivals;
3) To combine writing and speaking for a presentation in the target language.
Description and requirement for the project:
1) Content:
 This project is for students to obtain information through independent research;
 You will create a multimedia product to teach about one Chinese festival;
 Choose one of these important Chinese festivals: Chinese New Year or Chun Jie;
Qingming Festival; Duanwu or Dragon Boat Festival; Hungry Ghosts Festival or
Zhongyuan Jie; Mid-Autumn Festival or Zhongqiu Jie; Double Nine or Chongyang
Festival.
 You will include:
1. An introductory paragraph about the festival in Chinese
2. Origin(s) of the festival
3. Present day celebration and practice for this festival
4. Food and clothing with specific significance for this celebration
5. #2-4 must be accompanied with visuals. The narration can be in either Chinese
or English
2) Format: PPT, movie, picture book, artwork, etc.
3) Due Date: May 27, 2014.
Assessment rubrics:
Content
Organization
Visuals
Mechanics
Oral
presentation
1
1
Contains little substance
2
Contains some substance
Organization of content
unclear and confusing
Quality of visuals used is
dissatisfactory
The text is full of
mistakes in grammar,
vocabulary, punctuation
and writing
Incomprehensible
Content is somewhat
organized
Quality of visuals used is
tolerable
The text has 30% or less
mistakes in grammar,
vocabulary, punctuation
and writing
Over 50%
comprehensible
节日 (jieri) – a festival and a holiday
3
Contains substantial and
interesting content
Content is well organized
Quality of visuals used is
excellent
The text has less than
10% mistakes in
grammar, vocabulary,
punctuation and writing
Oral presentation is clear
in good pronunciation
and intonation