Name ___________________________ Chinese Name ____________________ CAS Lv 1 Summer Task LANGUAGE ● Go through the new vocabulary. Speak them aloud, go over their definitions, practice writing the characters. Make flashcards. ● Read through the new dialogue multiple times (in your head and aloud). Try translating the dialogue with your new vocabulary (write down the translation!) ● Read through (in your head and aloud) grammar points 6 (A-not-A questions) and 7 (the adverb 还). ● Try the Language Practice activities both aloud and written out, using what you just learned from the Grammar notes. ● Create your own sentences using the new vocabulary. ● Read through the Culture Highlights. ● Towards the end of summer, please also look over your final study guide. Try completing it again, see how much you remember. Review for the upcoming school year! CULTURE Please watch/read at least two of the following and write a 1 page (minimum), typed reflection ​ ​ for ONE of them: Films Princess Mononoke (director: Miyazaki Hayao) ​ Howl’s Moving Castle (director: Miyazaki Hayao) ​ Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (director: Miyazaki Hayao) ​ Tampopo (director: Itami Juzo) ​ Millennium Actress (director: Kon Satoshi) ​ Seven Samurai (director: Kurosawa Akira) ​ Akira (director: Otomo Katsuhiro) ​ Ip Man (director: Wilson Yip or Yip Wai-Shun) ​ ​ ​ American Dreams in China (director: Peter Chan) ​ Paprika (director: Kon Satoshi) ​ Ghost in the Shell (director: Oshii Mamoru) *no, not the Scarlett Johansson version* ​ ​ ​ A Great Wall (director: Peter Wang) ​ Spirited Away (director: Miyazaki Hayao) ​ A Bite of China (documentary series directed by: Chen Xiaoqing) [any episode(s)] ​ ~ please try to watch these films in their original languages, if possible. Books Orientalism (Edward Said) ​ Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers (John Jung) ​ At War with Asia (Noam Chomsky) ​ DUE: FIRST DAY OF CLASSES (FALL 2019) ​ Follow-up task: Go outside. Read books. Have fun! .