*To find out the Pinyin and English meaning, stroke count and stroke order of characters: go to Arch Chinese and type in the Chinese character you want to do. (You can go to Google Translate to translate English into Chinese).
Sample page for 日，you can find English meaning under "Definition" and Pinyin beneath it. You can also do stroke count for one additional information. You can click on the "play" button for the character to see the stroke order.
If you scroll down further, you can click on those words that contains character 日 in it.
*To see evolution (different forms of the character in history) of the characters, Copy and paste character to Wiktionary or Copy and Paste characters to Vividict
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Character Picture Book Project – Mr. Shi
Due: Week of 11/06-11/10 (3
extra points for turning in early)
Go to
mrshimandarin.blogspot.com for more information
Requirements for Character
Picture Book Project
1. Have a cover page. Include: 1. You full name and class
number 2. A title to your book (some names you can
use include: 汉字书-
character book, 我的汉字书
My Character Book， 汉字图画书 --Character Picture Book
*Have a back cover page (could be empty)
2. Have an introduction paragraph (in English) of at least
50 words introducing your readers to Chinese characters. You can talk about
what characters, radicals and strokes are, where they are used, history of
characters, Simplified/traditional characters etc.
3. At least 8 or 15 (depending on your class) characters (one per page)
4. Have a picture of the character on each page
5. Have Pinyin and English meaning for each
character
6. For each character, have ONE additional
information from the following list:
·
Stroke count (number
of strokes)
·
Stroke order: show people
how this character is written
·
Word examples: show
examples of words containing the character (must show the English meaning of
the whole word). Ex. 火山- fiery mountain or volcano （for
山）
·
An interesting fact
about the character
·
Evolution of the characters:
show how this character changed over time.
7. All characters MUST be hand-written
8. Book must be bound. You can staple pages together or use
spirals etc.
Grading Rubric (project is
worth 100 points)
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Poor
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Fair
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Good
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Excellent
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Content
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Missing parts, below 8 or 15 pages, minimal
information presented, no hand-written characters
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Missing part, inadequate information,
character writing is barely recognizable
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Missing some parts, characters
writing is neat, information educational
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Have all parts, character writing is
excellent, information is interesting and educational
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Accuracy of information
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Generally not accurate, errors
consistent throughout the book
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Generally accurate, shows large
amount of error
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Generally accurate, shows occasional
errors
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Very accurate information with no
errors
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Creativity/
Appeal to readers
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N/A
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Shows some creativity, ways of
presenting not appealing to readers
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Shows good creativity, ways of
presenting catches readers attention
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Shows great creativity, ways of
presenting very appealing to readers
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Appearance
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No bounding, messy, the product
doesn’t resemble the format of a book
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The product minimally resembles the
format of a book
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Clean, the product resembles the
format of a book
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Appealing
aesthetically, ready-to-publish-format book
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