Resources for Character Picture Book Project

*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)

	Poor	Fair	Good	Excellent
Content	Missing parts, below 8 or 15 pages, minimal information presented, no hand-written characters	Missing part, inadequate information, character writing is barely recognizable	Missing some parts, characters writing is neat, information educational	Have all parts, character writing is excellent, information is interesting and educational
Accuracy of information	Generally not accurate, errors consistent throughout the book	Generally accurate, shows large amount of error	Generally accurate, shows occasional errors	Very accurate information with no errors
Creativity/ Appeal to readers	N/A	Shows some creativity, ways of presenting not appealing to readers	Shows good creativity, ways of presenting catches readers attention	Shows great creativity, ways of presenting very appealing to readers
Appearance	No bounding, messy, the product doesn’t resemble the format of a book	The product minimally resembles the format of a book	Clean, the product resembles the format of a book	Appealing aesthetically,  ready-to-publish-format book