PLN+2010

It starts just with one!

**Product (what?)**
====Group 2 - Moon Cake ==== ====Group 3 -  Poster to show appreciation to teachers (Teacher’s Day) ==== ====Group 1 - To borrow the starter from Beverly, the color of Red ====

**Practice (how?)** ====Group 2 - Show different flavor moon cake, let students have some moon cake. Pictures of Chinese family reunion dinner and look at the full moon. The story of 嫦饿奔月, 吴刚伐木... ==== ====Group 3 -September 10th: Make a bow. 谢谢 不用谢 ==== ====Group 1 -Bride is dressed in red, table cloth, window deco, couplets, in Wedding / Newly wed house/room ====  ====Group 2 - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Introducing the meaning and importance of family reunion. The students can also compare Moon Festival to the Thanksgiving in American culture. ==== ====<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group 3 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Respect to teachers, Confucianism; compare and contrast Teacher's Day in Chinese culture and American Teachers' Appreciation Week ==== ====<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group 1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- The traditional belief that red colors can scare away evil spirits. We can show the video of “Nian2 -year” to help students figure out how this traditional belief comes from. How can we open a discussion in target language to bring our students to figure out why red color represents happiness, luck and prosperity for Chinese for our elementary level class? ==== ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Use the Chinese wedding clips- both comtemporay and traditional and encourage students observe what is major color in the clips. ==== ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Use simple sentences like: What color you see the most in Chinese wedding? ==== ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Red color symbolized good thing or bad thing? ==== ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Use American wedding to do the comparison and contract to help students to enhence their understanding ==== ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. We can also show the video clips of Chinese funeral in Taiwan and China and do the comparison and contrast discussion between wedding and funeral. ====
 * Perspective (why?)**

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startalk2010. Q: Why is it easier to focus on products and practices before perspectives? A: Because sometimes I don't think about my goals first... Grace at 14:36 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web 因为产品和习俗是可见的. Ping Wu at 15:07 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web Because they are more concrete, something students can see, hear, feel ... easier to relate to what you teach ... Sasha at 15:08 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web Q #1: What cultural events might you build into the regular curriculum and explore? A: I plan a CBI unit teaching 12 Zodiac during the Chin  sherri at 15:08 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web Q: How do teachers integrate culture into instruction? A: There are many ways, such as celebrating festivals, discussion on current event. B  Lili at 15:08 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web 因为交观点比教产品和习俗难. Wei at 15:08 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web perspectives are embodied in products and practices  mei hu at 15:08 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web Because products and practices are the approaches that students use to form their perspectives. Helen Wang at 15:09 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web Touching and seeing things is much easier than understanding other's thought which is not obvious to be observed by hands and eyes. Jing Wang at 15:09 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web Because you see and touch product help you easy to understand their perspect. kaoru at 15:12 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web After introducing the product and giving students chances to use it and practice, they will produce different view and perspectives. Irina at 15:14 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web 1.How do teacher integrate culture into instruction? Teacher should keep culture as one of the element in the class planning. Beverly at 15:14 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web Hands-on activities and practice facilitate theory underlied. Hua Zhang at 15:15 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web Can perspectives be addressed while staying in the target language? Marcia at 15:19 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web I think we might use some examples to show the different view when those both happens the same situation. Jing Wang at 15:27 PM, 24 Jul 2010 via web