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AP Chinese Language and Culture Unit Project
Grade Level AP Chinese
Proficiency level: Intermediate Mid
Designed by Xiaowei Hunt
Unit Theme Environmental Protection
Time needed__425 Minutes__
AP thematic unit: 6. Environmental, political, and societal challenging
1. A rationale for the Proposed Unit
“Environmental, Political and Societal Challenges” is one of the six themes for AP Chinese Language & Culture. It is required of my AP Chinese students to be able to demonstrate their communicative proficiency in three modes of communication一interpretive, interpersonal and presentational about Environmental, Political and Societal Challenges. I chose to write lesson plans on this theme for three reasons: 1) This topic has not been in any of the previous AP Chinese exams in category of free response as far as I know ; 2)Brian Benards, USC professor specialized in Asian Languages & Cultures introduced “Wandering Earth 流浪地球Liúlàng dìqiú” , a Chinese Sci-Fi movie, to the participants of 2019 U.S. China Institute summer seminar. I was inspired and decided on using this movie as a platform for my students to “see, think, wonder and solve” one of the “Environmental, Political and Societal Challenges”; 3) As an AP Chinese language and culture teacher, I could set up Student Learning Goals(SLGs) to listen to, speak, read and write about “Environmental, Political and Societal Challenges” and provide them with all the resources I can find related to the theme.
2. Skill and Content Objectives
Students will be able to describe some features of a clean environment;
Students will be able to identify examples of practice that are friendly to the environment people in China have done;
Students will also be able to exchange ideas on actions they will take to help conserve resources;
Students will also be able to compare and contrast the roles men and women play in the future if human beings have to migrate to another planet.
3. Assessment Methods (检测学习结果的方法)
A. Identify types of wastes to make the environment a better place to live(Interpretive Mode)
B. Discussion(Interpersonal Mode)
C. Interview(Interpersonal Mode)
D. Email Response ( Presentational Mode)
E. Retell(Presentational)
4 : Lesson Planning (设计教学)
Day 1: Learn and Identify different types of wastes and know which trash bin to put them.
Day 2: Explain the significance of classifying wastes.
Day 3: Exchange ideas on actions to take for a better environment.
Day 4: Write an email response to compare what people in China and in America have done for a clean environment.(Interpretive and Presentational mode)
Day 5: Discuss what men and women will do in the future if human beings have to migrate to another planet(Interpretive mode)
See detailed lesson plans in the attached file or through this link:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DA6NNEgPfTUoV5kFolFeWqk4yfMMazzV/view?usp=sharing
