Common Core Initiative
How is Chinese used to tell stories?
In this unit students read a simplified version of the story, Three Little Pigs, in Chinese. Since students are already familiar with the storyline, it is easy for them to follow the plot in the second language. Students use the readers’ theater format to put on a production of the story for an audience. Students focus on fluency, pronunciation and accuracy in the presentation.
1. What are the elements of stories?
2. What is involved in putting on a play?
3. How do I use Chinese in oral presentations?
1. Read a simplified text. The Three Little Pigs document, in reader's theater format, is attached.
2. Present a production of the story to an audience.
3. Identify characters: 老，有，只，造
4. Introduced but not accessed:
5. Ongoing review of pinyin and strokes.
Sample Performance Assessments:
1. Assess students' current level vocabulary related to this unit of study (oral language).
2. Read orally a simplified version of the story, The Three Little Pigs, and identify story elements.（1.2.N.R.b)3. Present a production of the story to an audience with the following team: (1.3.N.S.a, 5.2.N.a)-actors: learn and present their parts through readers’ theater-set designers: create props-director/s: direct the play-stage hands: set up and tear down props
Identifying
Describing
Recommended (not required) Instructional Resources:
Teachers Resources:
The three little pigs in Chinese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBdeOmEm2XI
The three little pigs Chinese mandarin cartoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=FAyzWpS6VAI&feature=endscreen
Three Little Pigs Chinese-English bilingual text with pinyin, by C J Lee: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Little-Pigs-English-Chinese-ebook/dp/B009OPU9HQ
Three Little Pigs presented by Singapore Repertory Theatre: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Little-Pigs-English-Chinese-ebook/dp/B009OPU9HQ
