Welcome to Mr. Deng’s Mandarin classes, you will learn how to listen, speak, read and write Mandarin through….
- Thematic topics and projects such as life of a middle school student.
- Writing Chinese characters one stroke at a time.
- Applying how each character can be used in different phrases and sentences.
- Experience the Chinese culture.
Why do we have classroom rules? It’s because of A, B, C, and D!
Anarchy: If there are no traffic rules, what do you think may happen?
Bullying: If people start to make their own traffic rules, what do you think will happen?
Conformity: If people pressure you to follow their own traffic rule, what would you do?
Democracy: If people drive responsibly, we all live happily.
Student Responsibility:
- No food or drinks, except water in the classroom.
- Bring your own eraser, pencils and papers to class.
- Be respectful and courteous to others. Treat others as you would like to be treated!
Grade Calculation
Homework / 30%Quizzes and Tests / 35%
Participation / 35%
Writing / Narration / Presentation / Language Use
4 / Excellent
A / Address all aspects of a topic. Well organized and coherent, with clear progression of idea and properly use of transitional elements. / Includes a beginning, middle, and end that tell a logical and complete story consistent with the topic. Well organized and coherent. / Smooth pace and pronunciation. Occasional errors in tones. / Appropriate vocabulary and idioms with sporadic errors.
Variety of grammatical structures, with sporadic errors.
3 / Above Average
B / Address all aspects of a topic but lack detail. Generally organized but inconsistent use of transitional phrase and loosely connected sentences. / Tell a complete story but lack detail or elaboration or logical progression. Inconsistent use of transitional phrases; sentences may loosely connected. / Generally consistent pace and tone with some hesitation and repetition. May have several errors in pronunciation. / Mostly Appropriate vocabulary and idioms with errors that do not generally change its meaning.
Mostly appropriate grammatical structures.
2 / Average
C / Address topic but not all aspects. Lack organization or coherence; disconnected sentences. / Tell a basic story consistent with topic but inconsistencies from beginning to end. Partly lack organization; in frequent use of transitional phrases; disconnected sentences. / Inconsistent pace and intonation, with hesitation and repetition. Errors in pronunciation that require special listener effort. / Limited appropriate vocab and idioms, with frequent errors that sometimes change its meaning. Mostly simple grammatical structures but with frequent errors.
1 / Below Average
D / Address topic only marginally. Scatter information lacks organization; minimal or no use of transitional phrases. / Respond in listing with little narration; inconsistent with topic. Scattered information lack organization and Coherence, minimal or no use of transitional phrases. / Labored pace and intonation, with frequent hesitation and repetition. Frequent errors in pronunciation. / Minimal appropriate vocab, with frequent errors that change its meaning; repeated interference from English.
Limited grammatical structures with frequent errors.
0 / Far Below Average
F / Address topic minimally.
No organization and coherence; disjointed sentences. / Response incomplete and difficult to follow; lacks narrative elements; many be inconsistent with topic.
Lacks organization and coherence; very disjointed sentences or isolated words. / Very labored pace and intonation, with constant hesitation and repetition. Frequent errors in pronunciation. / Insufficient, inappropriate vocab, with frequent errors.
Little or no control of grammatical structures with frequent errors that significantly change its meaning.
Grade Scale