Grade 12: Experiencing Creative Works

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

• view, listen to, and read creative works, and respond to them in various ways

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• As a class, watch a movie with Chinese cultural, historical, or artistic content and critique it for plot, character, theme, and artistic merit. Have students compare the movie to a popular English film in terms of the same features.
• Invite master artists to demonstrate their techniques to the class. Then ask students to create their own artistic works using the learned techniques.
• Present various poems from different time periods, then have students complete one or more of the following assignments:
  • Recite their favourite poems using chosen background music to accompany them.
  • Compose and illustrate their own poems.
  • Analyse other students' poems and present their interpretations to the class.
• Show students a selection of Chinese art from different time periods. As a class, compare and contrast them with Western art. Then ask each student to select a piece of Chinese art, compare and contrast it with a sample of Western art, and present the similarities and differences to the class.
• Suggest that students read selections of Chinese and First Nations or Greek myths and identify common themes.
• Invite students to use a variety of print and electronic resources to research the Beijing Opera and share their findings in various ways. For example, students might view a video on the Beijing Opera and apply the conventional make-up for various traditional characters. Students then use these make-up masks to role-play short scenes from an opera.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• As students discuss and write about Chinese creative works, watch for evidence that they are increasing in:
  • openness and sensitivity to the role of Chinese arts and literature
  • knowledge about Chinese artistic and literary traditions and genres
  • interest in contemporary arts
  • willingness to risk offering opinions and views
  • participation in and commitment to class or group activities
• To assess their understanding of creative works, ask students in pairs to complete and submit performance-assessment assignments. For example, have each pair:
  • find a contemporary creative work of interest in popular media (e.g., cable television, video, radio, CD, audiotape)
  • represent the main ideas or message in a chosen format
  • show and support personal views or responses
  • identify two strengths of the assignment and one feature that was difficult
• Provide prompts in Chinese (using Chinese characters with some Pinyin for less familiar vocabulary) such as the following to help students reflect on and assess their responses to creative works:
  • My favourite Chinese music is ____________ because ____________ .
  • A poem that stands out in my mind is ____________ because ____________.
  • A style of music or art that I enjoy both in English and Chinese is ____________ because ____________ .
  • When I think about traditional Chinese painting, the first thing that comes to mind is ____________ .
  • I'd like to know more about images and symbols in Chinese art and literature, such as ____________ .

• Favourite Folktales of China
• A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night
• Old Tales of China
• Taiwan Today

• China's Cosmopolitan Age

• Chinese Folk Songs
• Chinese Mandarin Resource Book - Volumes 1, 2, and 3
• The Chinese People
• Hanyu (Revised Edition)
• Out of the East Horizon
• Zhongguotong

• Chinese and Characters

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