Chinese Cinderella Unit

Chinese Cinderella 

Exemplar: Draw a Chinese Cinderella based on traditional Chinese dressing culture.
Objective:

2^nd to 3^rd grade---I can distinguish whether and explain my Cinderella is rich or poor based on the traditional Chinese dressing culture.

4^th to 5^th grade---I can distinguish and explain whether my Cinderella is rich or poor based on the traditional Chinese dressing culture.

                                I can give my Cinderella a Chinese name based on Chinese culture.

6^th grade---I can distinguish and explain whether my Cinderella is rich or poor based on the traditional Chinese dressing culture.

                    I can give my Cinderella a Chinese name based on Chinese culture and write it in Chinese Characters.

Task:

2^nd to 3^rd scholars will draw their own Chinese Cinderella and explain whether their Cinderella is rich or poor based on the traditional Chinese dressing culture.

4^th to 5^th   scholars will draw their own Chinese Cinderella and explain whether their Cinderella is rich or poor based on the traditional Chinese dressing culture. They also need to give their Cinderella a Chinese name.

6^th scholars will draw their own Chinese Cinderella and explain whether their Cinderella is rich or poor based on the traditional Chinese dressing culture. They also need to give their Cinderella a Chinese name and write it in Chinese characters.

Vocabulary:

No specific vocabulary is required for 2^nd to 5^th graders.

6^th graders:

Wo de	Hui  gu  niang	Jiao
我的	灰姑娘	叫
my	Cinder girl (Cinderella)	To be called

Task Description:

In the Chinese Cinderella unit, we learned traditional Chinese dressing culture. Thought-out the movie of “Yeh Shen” (Chinese Cinderella), scholars explored and analysis the traditional Chinese dressing culture. In ancient China, a cloth with a pair of long and wide sleeves is considered as an expensive cloth. Moreover, one piece long dress is more expensive than two pieces dress and much more expensive than pants. Besides that, head dress, shoulderetter, traditional high heels are all symbols of rich.

For 2^nd to 5^th graders, they need to draw their own Chinese Cinderella and she must wear traditional Chinese dress. Moreover, scholars need to explain whether their Cinderella rich or poor based on the traditional Chinese dressing culture. 4^th to 5^th graders are also asked to give their Cinderella a Chinese name based on Chinese culture.

 For 6^th graders, they studied the sentence pattern “My Cinderella is called+ _______” in Mandarin, therefore, they need to write their Cinderella’s’ names in Mandarin after they draw their own Cinderella. Since they understand the dressing code culture, they are able to draw rich Cinderella, poor Cinderella, or middle class Cinderella and explain it.

Assessment:

Score 4.0: The scholar demonstrates the advanced beginning level performance.

Score 3.5: The scholar demonstrates some advanced beginning level performance.

Score 3.0: The scholar has mastered the beginning level performance. This obvious when:

Scholars can write characters correctly. (2^nd to 3^rdgrade)

Scholars can write characters correctly and can write the sentence completely. (4^th to 5^thgrade)

Scholars can write characters correctly, can write the sentence completely, and use sentence pattern correctly. (6^th grade)

Score 2.5: The scholar has a basic understanding and its progressing towards mastery.

Score 2.0: The scholar has achieved basic understanding.

Score 1.5: The scholar has demonstrated basic understanding with some assistance.

Score 1.0: The scholar has demonstrated basic understanding only with assistance.

Score 0.5: The scholar has demonstrated some basic understanding only with assistance.