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ES Chinese: Grade 5

EMERGENT FOUNDATION

Unit:
  • All About Me
Essential Questions:
  • How do we use sentence patterns to organize ideas?
  • How do we introduce yourself in Chinese?
  • What are the differences of family member names between Chinese and English/your home language?
Unit:
  • Likes and Dislikes
Essential Questions:
  • How do you express your likes and dislikes in Chinese?
  • How do you use basic sentence structures to ask and answer questions about people’s likes and dislikes?
Unit:
  • Weather and Seasons
Essential Questions:
  • How do you describe different weather and seasons in Chinese?
  • How do weather and season impact people’s daily life?
Unit:
  • Transportation
Essential Questions:
  • What are the forms of transportation in Chinese?
  • How does transportation connect people between different communities?

EMERGENT STANDARD

Unit:
  • Friendship
Essential Questions:
  • What do I want to know about my friends?
  • What do I want my friend to know about me?
  • How do I introduce a friend?
Unit:
  • Daily Routine
Essential Questions:
  • How can you describe what your day looks like?
  • What school subjects do you learn?
Unit:
  • House
Essential Questions:
  • How to compose planned oral texts with sequenced sentences and connected ideas to introduce houses?
  • What are the functions of different rooms?
Unit:
  • Family
Essential Questions:
  • How can you explain detailed family information?
  • What roles do each of your family members play?

EMERGENT HIGH YEAR 1

Unit:
  • Hobbies
Essential Questions:
  • How do you introduce your hobbies?
  • How do we use basic sentence structures to ask and answer questions about people’s hobbies?
Unit:
  • School Community
Essential Questions:
  • How do you introduce people that help us learn and grow in our school community?
  • What do the different departments do at school?
  • How do you describe the functions of the different departments of school?
Unit:
  • Weather and Disasters
Essential Questions:
  • Can you name some extreme weather and disasters in Chinese?
  • What actions can we take to reduce risks?
Unit:
  • Staying Fit
Essential Questions:
  • What is a healthy lifestyle? Food/Rest/Exercise?
  • What different choices can we make to stay fit?

EMERGENT HIGH YEAR 2

Unit:
  • Informational Writing - My Hometown
Essential Questions:
  • What elements make up informational writing?
  • What is the purpose of informational writing?
  • How do you use informational skills to introduce your hometown?
Unit:
  • Nonfiction Reading (Chinese Tea)
Essential Questions:
  • What is the history and culture of Chinese tea?
  • Why does Chinese tea matter?
  • How do you use your presentation skills to introduce Chinese tea?
Unit:
  • Personal Narrative Writing
Essential Questions:
  • How can writers create an interesting personal narrative?
  • How can I organize my story so that it is clear and easy to understand?
Unit:
  • Fiction Reading - Interpreting Characters
Essential Questions:
  • How can you describe a character’s traits and motivation?
  • How do characters change from beginning to end and what causes them to change?
  • How can I use all I know about reading and writing to create a passionate interpretation of a text?
  • How can I pick up on important ideas that might lead me to the author’s message?

PROFICIENT

Unit:
  • Prose and Poetry
Essential Questions:
  • Can you identify how the authors engage readers with organizing ideas and describing the scene to evoke the audience's feelings?
  • How do you describe the scene in sequence to engage readers?
  • How do you organize ideas in sequence to express clearly?
Unit:
  • Nonfiction 
Essential Questions:
  • How do you identify the text feature of non-fiction texts and give examples with text evidence?
  • How do you use questioning strategies to further your understanding of the texts?
  • Can you attempt to use authors’ writing techniques (graphs, labelling, numbers, examples, comparison, etc.) to explain (a process, a function.... etc.)?
Unit:
  • Stories 
Essential Questions:
  • What kind of stories do you know?  What characteristics do these stories have? What are their similarities and differences?
  • What stories can help you to learn or understand?
  • How do authors use imagination to evoke the feelings of the readers?

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