Unit: 好想谈恋爱 Summative Assessment Project

Objectives:

Presentational Writing - Students can provide physical descriptions and personality traits in a persuasive format, posted on a school blog (Blackboard, Canvas, etc.).

Interpersonal Speaking and Listening - Students can solicit and provide specific information to conduct an interview. Students can analyze the gathered information and select the best choice to meet specific criteria.

Person A (promoting male TA): You are an exchange student in China. You are helping your TA find a date, in hope that they will fall in love. Your TA is a male Chinese doctoral candidate. You are eager to end his singlehood. After reading the many examples from this unit, you are aware of the dating scene and criteria for friend-seeking in China. You will create an advertisement providing your TA’s basic information, physical and personality descriptions. You will also solicit candidates on a public dating blog. You will conduct a mock phone interview for their physical and personality descriptions. At the end, you will choose the best candidate and provide the reasons for your selection.

Person B (promoting female TA): You are an exchange student in China. You are helping your TA find a date, in hope that they will fall in love. Your TA is a female Chinese doctoral candidate. You are eager to end her singlehood. After reading the many examples from this unit, you are aware of the dating scene and criteria for friend-seeking in China. You will create an advertisement providing your TA’s basic information, physical and personality descriptions. You will also solicit candidates on a public dating blog. You will conduct a mock phone interview for their physical and personality descriptions. At the end, you will choose the best candidate and provide the reasons for your selection.

Implementation:

Day 9. Each student will select to be Person A or B. It would be ideal to have an even split of Persons A and B. Students will work on writing the advertisement and post it on the blog.

Day 10. of project. Each student will bring a print copy of their advertisement. The class should form in an inner/outer circle or format conducive to conduct “Speed Dating”. Each student will also receive an interview check list. Person As and Bs will rotate to conduct interview no more than 5 minutes. At the end of all rotations, class will determine how many “matches” have be made. A “match” is made when both parties have selected each other as interested parties. For example, if Person A1 interviews five Person Bs. Person A1 will only have a match if one of the Person B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, also selected Person A1 as a “like”. Unit: 好想谈恋爱 Summative Assessment Project

Explanatory Image for Teacher’s Reference:

Source: http://amandabickell.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/speed-dating-class-copy.jpg Unit: 好想谈恋爱 Summative Assessment Project

Writing Rubric for Blog

Category 4 3 2 1

Task 1: Can write an Can write an Can write minimal Writing consists of elaborate series of adequate series of series of physical segmented or Describe your TA physical descriptions physical descriptions descriptions and incomplete and personality and personality personality traits. sentences on traits. traits. physical descriptions and personality traits.

Task2 : Can write an Can write an Can write minimal Writing consists of elaborate series of adequate series of series of physical segmented or Describe your TA’s physical descriptions physical descriptions descriptions and incomplete desired boy/girl and personality and personality personality traits. sentences on friend traits. traits. physical descriptions and personality traits.

Language: Can use an Can use adequate Can minimal amount Can minimal amount abundance of new amount of new of new vocabulary of new vocabulary (Vocabulary) vocabulary words in vocabulary words in words in appropriate words, yet in wrong appropriate context, appropriate context, context, containing context, containing containing less than containing more more than 3 more than 3 2 typographical than 3 typographical typographical errors. typographical errors. errors. errors.

Language: Can use a variety of Can adequate Can minimal amount Can minimal amount grammatical amount of of grammatical of grammatical (Grammar structures, including grammatical structures, but use structures, but use structure) the two targeted structures, including the one of the none of the targeted structures in one of the targeted targeted structures structures appropriate context. structures in incorrectly. incorrectly. appropriate context.

Presentational Final product Final product Final product Final product details completes the completes the completes one of the completes the tasks required tasks, and is required tasks, and is required tasks, and required minimally, (task completion, presentable for near presentable for does not meet the and does not meet presentation- formal setting. formal setting. standards to present the standards to at formal setting. present at formal ready) setting.