Concepts

1. Reading

Students will read a wide range of materials from government records.

Migration
Acculturation
Ethnicity
Equality
Law
Justice
Workers’ Union
Authenticity
Women’s rights
Human rights
Citizenship
Patriotism

Chinese grammar
Thesis
Arguments
Conclusion

Critical thinking
Creative work

Rewriting and revision

Cooperation
Negotiation

2. Writing

Students will practice all types of writing especially reflective essays.

3. Speaking, listening, and viewing

Students will engage in all kinds of practice organized around a variety of social situations: one-to-one interaction, group discussion, interviews, and oral presentations.

4. Conventions, grammar and usage of Chinese

Students will represent themselves appropriately using standard Chinese. To produce high quality work, students will do a number of drafts before they complete each piece of writing work.

5. Literature

Students will represent themselves appropriately using standard Chinese. To produce high quality work, students will do a number of drafts before they complete each piece of writing work.

6. Public and functional documents

Students will read critically the government records and other historical materials about the early Chinese immigrants in NYC, and make informed judgments about issues that impacted the lives of this ethnic group. By studying the experiences of their predecessors, students will have a better understanding of the their own, so that they will function more successfully in today’s world.

Students will offer critiques of documents and argue for their own opinions.