Village Christian Schools

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Village Christian Schools
World Languages department
Chinese Cultural Project
Mrs. Basilious
Class of 2008

• Introduction
• The Task
• The Process
• Evaluation
• Conclusion

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Introduction
You are cultural researchers .Your main mission
is to promote respect and understanding of the
Chinese culture. Your job is to find information
and pictures to use in a power
point presentation describing this country and
its culture. You will tell us about Chinese food,
some must see sites, people, Products and
cultural practices.
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The Task
You and your partner will choose a role and you
will investigate a specific subject area of the
country and its culture. You and your partner
will collect notes and pictures that will be
used to create a power point presentation. You
and your partner are going to create a power
point presentation describing Chinese people and
its culture that will showcase
geography, demographics, and the visual and
cultural beliefs. The presentation will include
maps, graphs, Images of products, and other
important figures, and pictures of some famous
places.
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The Process
1.First , you will be assigned to research groups
of four made Up of a travel agent, philosopher,
a geographer and an Anthropologist. 2.You will
choose your roles and research the area of
investigation. That goes along with your
role. 3.You and your partner will search for and
gather information from the internet sites
listed above. 4.You and your partner will save
pictures from the internet sites to use in their
Presentation. 5.After gathering your notes and
pictures, you will create your slide show. 6.You
and your partner will create their slide show in
Power Point. The show must contain
aAppropriate background, appropriate pictures,
readable text, spelling checked,
written In own words, accurate and interesting
information. b Title slide with
name of country, role, investigation area and
your name. c At least 4 content
slides that describe each area of country/culture
you investigated, Including
pictures. dThe last slide is for
the Bibliography. Students will properly list the
internet resources Used in
gathering their notes and pictures.
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Travel agent The travel agent will identify
geographic features of Chin and its must by
photos, maps,
verbal descriptions of each place. Some useful
sites a
http//www.pbs.org/greatwall/

http//metrotel.co.uk/jvt/china1.htm

http//library.thinkquest.org/20443/yangtze.html

http//www.schneuwly.com/tibet/
http//www.chinavis
ta.com/beijing/gugong/!start.htm1

http//www.chinavista.com/travel/huangshang/home.h
tm1
http//www.chinavista.com/travel/greatwall/grea
twall.htm1

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The philosopher will identify the four main
Chinese philosophies from the Hundred Schools of
Thought in the Zhou Dynasty Moism, Daoism,
Legalism And Confucianism. Also, you should
research the introduction of Buddhism Into China
. You will provide photos of the philosophers,
their beliefs, photos And their influence to
Chinese culture and Chinese people. Some useful
sites Are http//everything2.com/index.pl?
nodeChinesephilosphers
http//library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01780/essentia
l/chinese-philosophy http//www.123helpme.c
om/seach.asp?textEarlyphilosophers
http//www.west-meet-east.com/eduphlao.htm
http//faculty.plattsburgh.edu/kurtis.hagen/chines
e-philosophers.htm1
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Geographer
The Geographer will collect information about
several must see sites and other Demographic
information. They will create maps and graphs to
present their Information. Some helpful sites
are http//www.yahooligans.com/reference/
factbook/ch/ http//www.nationalgeographic
.com/resources/ngo/maps/view/images/
http//media.maps.com/magellan/Images/CHINA-W1.gif
http//1cweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html
http//www.fotw.stm.it/flags/cn.htm1
http//www.capitals.com/
http//www.infoplease.com/ipa/A01074411.htm1

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media.maps.com/magellan/Images/CHINA-W1.gif

The Anthropologist will identify Chinese values,
history, cultural beliefs and practices. You will
identify images that represent religious beliefs
and practices important Customs, holidays. Some
helpful sites are http//www.fi.edu/felloes/
fellow1/apr99/abc/index.htm1
http//www.asianart.com/splendors/index.htm1top
http//asterius.com/china/
http//kiku.com/electric_samurai/virtual_china/bei
jing.htm1 http//www-chaos.umd.edu/history/to
c.htm1 http//emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/prehis
tory/china/ http//library.thinkquest.org/264
69/index2.htm1 http//library.thinkquest.org/
CR0215373/
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EvaluationYou will receive a grade for the
power point presentation
Pg1Teacher NameMrs.Basilious Student
Name_______________________

• Category 4Exemplary
  3Accomplished
  2Developing
  1Beginning
• Organization Content is
  well Uses headings or
  Content is logically
  There was no clear
• 
  organized using
  bulleted lists to
  organized for the or
  logical
• 
  headings or
  organize, but the most
  part
  organizational
• 
  bulleted lists to
  overall organization
  
  structure, just lots
  
• 
  group related of
  topics appears
  
  of facts
• 
  material.
  Flawed
• Presentation Well-rehearsed
  Rehearsed with
  Delivery not smooth,
  Delivery not smooth
• 
  with smooth fairly
  smooth but
  able to maintain and audience
• 
  delivery that holds delivery
  that holds interest of
  the attention
• 
  audience attention audience
  attention audience
  most of the often lost.
• 
  
  most of the time
  time.
• Requirements All requirements
  All requirements
  One
  More than one
• are
  met and are met
  
  requirement was
  requirement was
• 
  exceeded
  
  not completely
  not completely
• 
  
  
  met
  met

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Pg 2

• Category 4 Exemplary
  3 Accomplished
  2 Developing
  1 Beginning
• Sources source information
  collected Source information collected
  Source information collected Very
  little or no source
• for all graphics,
  facts and for all graphics,
  facts and for graphics, facts and
  information was
• quotes. All
  documented in quotes. Most
  documented quotes. but not documented
  collected.
• desired format.
  In desired
  format. In desired
  format.
• Attractiveness Makes excellent use of font,
  Makes good use of font,
  Makes use of font, color, Use of
  font, color,
• color, graphics,
  effects, etc. Color, graphics,
  effects, graphics, effects, etc.
  but graphics, effects, etc.
• to enhance the
  presentation. To enhance to
  presentation. Occasionally these detract
  but these often
• 
  
  
  from the presentation
  distract from the
• 
  
  
  content.
  Presentation content.
• Knowledge Student can accurately answer
  Student can accurately
  student can accurately student
  appears to
• Gained all questions related to
  facts in answer most questions
  answer about 75 of
  have insufficient
• the poster and
  processes used related to facts in the
  questions related to facts
  knowledge about the
• to create the
  poster. Poster and
  processes in the poster and
  processes facts or processes
• 
  
  used to create the used
  to create the poster. Used in the
  poster.

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Conclusion

• Congratulations! You have completed your
• Chinese culture investigation! Through this web
• quest you have learned about a Chinese culture
• and gained a greater understanding of their
• characteristics and customs.
• Thanks to all the websites listed above for
• Abundance of information.