Chinese 201 Daily Class Schedule

WEEK 3 | Sept. 15 – Sept. 19, 2025

 

Week 3

Class Tasks & Activities
E-Textbook & Lab: FluencyLink

Preparation & Work Due
(after today’s class and before next period)

 

Monday
(9/15)

No Class

Class on Monday (9/15) does not meet. If you did not attend the Tacoma Moon Festival, complete a summary/reflection essay (500 words) by choosing one the following:
1. Visit
National Museum of Asian Art and submit notes and a reflection.
2. Watch
The Impossible Chinese Typewriter on YouTube and write a summary.
Purchase Integrated Chinese on FluencyLink (see links below).

Quiz 2: Complete take-home dictation
Due Wednesday (9/17) by midnight
Quiz 2 uses vocabulary items from both L11. Dialogues 1 & 2. Know the new words and then
listen to this Dictation recording. Type out what you hear into characters. Annotate new words if needed. Share in Google Doc: 201Quiz2_
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HW2: Revise & Post on Edublogs
Due Friday  (9/20) by midnight
See edits and revise your work
Based on corrections, revise you HW2, add a vocabulary list (中秋zhōngqiū; mid-autumn)
to accompany your essay, post on Edublogs Comparison Narrative Page under Comments

Quiz 3: study L11 D2 vocabulary items 
Scheduled in class next Monday (9/22)
Study L11 Dialogue 2 vocabulary:
 Use Skritter, or  TB: L 11.2 
√ Can connect Characters to Pinyin, and learn the meaning in English to the corresponding word

HW3 My Hometown Weather Writing
Due before next week’s discussion session
Choose one past essay posted under Comments on My Hometown Weather and read carefully; identify all the patterns

Read the essay prompt, and start writing your own; list vocabulary items along the way
Complete 1st draft, and create a file
201HW3_
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Work with Peer Tutor Sadie


 


Weekly
Discussion
Sessions

PRACTICE & SPEAKING SESSION - START THIS WEEK
Session #1 Monday (9/15) 5:30-6:20 @ Wy 326
Campbell, Sydney, Caylah, Seamus
Session #2 Thursday (9/18) 10:30-11:20 @ Wy 226
Jameson, Fiona, Jordan


Week 3 TOPIC:
Weather at your hometown
Warm up with WB 11-2 IV.D Reading
Review HW2 and post on Edublogs
Assign HW3: My Hometown Weather; see prompt and past student work on edublogs posting: My Hometown Weather


 

Wednesday
(9/17)

Warm-up Poll: 你比较喜欢什么   
Drill: TB: L 11.2 Vocabulary
Q&A L11 TB P. 32 to talk about weather
Workbook Reading:
WB 11-1 IV.B Reading
WB 11-1 IV.C Reading

HW2 & Set up Edublogs Account
Go over HW3
My Hometown Weather
Q&A
FluencyLink and Skritter 201 Classroom access



 

Friday
(9/19)

Go over HW3 My Hometown Weather
Listen to WB 11-2 I.A: L11 D2 Video Questions
Reading: WB 11-2 IV.B Reading
Pattern Review:
PP. 6-9 /PP. 9-11 /一点儿
PP. 21-27 //......可是/還是…吧
Practice comparative patterns: /比較/

Adverbs: 非常/特別/比較/



 


Online tools and tutor support to keep in mind for work to be completed during Week 3
:

§  Know how to use the following online tools smartly and responsibly:
1. Annotation tools: Purple Culture, MandarinSpot
2. Character/vocabulary practicing tool: Skritter (check email for authorization code) | Join Chin201 Classroom
3. Essay writing/check sentence structure: Google/ChatGPT (always credit and reference your use in the essay, adding notes and
    thorough vocabulary list to demonstrate your own work – only use it to check grammar usage in each sentence – never translate entire essay)
4. Typing Pinyin: Pinyin Tones

§  Work with Peer Tutor Sadie. Office in Howarth 105
Click to see how to make an appt. with a tutor at CWL.