Stories

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Paul's 十二生肖 story, a work in progress: 金发姑娘： **施工中！**

Paul's story: ...needs a bit of organizing, but it was lots of fun with 7th grade exploratory (very low level) kids.

Paul's unit: ...a comprehensive unit for level II or III, or maybe even higher level I, based around the saying "邯郸学步". Not strictly TPRS, but contains a large story section that can be adapted to TPRS. I used this unit when I subbed for Haiyun at USM; it went pretty well, but took a lot longer than I expected. I'd love to hear your suggestions/see your revisions.
 * Which level of students that you use this story to teach?
 * I used it with Chinese II. My expectations on their communicative abilities were too high. Try with III.

La's first made up story, Monday morning after the TPRS workshop in Milwaukee.....ok, I am teaching a unit on Countries and languages. As fun as the textbook can be, truth is many kids, especially small town kids, have never been far from their hometown. I taught them 去过，没去过，等. So I was thinking to use TPRS as a review and introducing the "languages". Kids seem to like it. My problems, as a novice TPRSer, are to remember/control the story, remember to circling enough before asking students to produce.... Another thing that I'm kind of in haze write now is how can we follow up the story or what would be some activities following the story. I understand that we can have them read the extend reading, but what else? Here's the exercise sheet after reading story: I have my students answer questions, fill in the blank with new and old vocabs, draw a storyboard, read the story to another person and have the person sign. I think the exercises maybe a bit too long and difficult?? I told the story over 3 periods (I did some other activities in class as well). Should I take longer time to tell the story? To me it's more like review, but to students, they might think this is hard...I don't know! What are your insights? Let's hear it! :)

Haiyun's stories:

杜雁子/Diane Neubauer: These stories were made in preparation for a trip with my 8th grade class to San Francisco. Did lots of circling with them, and asked students to add pictures and record themselves reading the stories aloud for homework.My 8th graders used Kuaile Hanyu (plus my beefing it up) Books 1 & 2. They were mostly done with Book 2 when I did these stories with them.