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Developing Oral Narrative Skills for Upper—Intermediate and Advanced Level Students” – The narrative skill – being able to describe events or retell stories in temporal order – is essential to communication. According to ACTFL OPI criteria, the ability to narrative across the major time frames of the past, present, and future in connected, paragraph-length discourse is a major landmark for advanced-level leaners.

Every student will give her/his speech in Chinese in class during 2019-2020 academic year.

Parents – please help your daughter/son develop her/his oral narrative skills in Chinese at home.

Please bring your music instruments to the classroom each Sunday.  The players of the same instruments will meet in a small group and have a short practice together.

The students should turn in their homework of Lesson 6 this coming Sunday,10/27/2019.

We will start learning Lesson 7.

陈恩熙， 陈曦， 关锦平 and Kendall Griffith will practice their speech in this Sunday class for the second time.  The rest of students will critique their speeches. Studying other speakers is a critical skill, one of the 25 essential skills for a public speaker. The ability to analyze a speech will accelerate the growth of any speaker.

Hello parents,

1. Please remind your daughter and son to bring her/ his music instrument to the classroom this Sunday, Oct 20.  The players of the same instruments will meet in small groups and have a short practice together.
2. 陈恩熙， 陈曦， 关锦平 and Kendall Griffith will practice their speeches in front of the entire class this Sunday.  Other students will critique their speeches.  (Studying other speakers is a critical skill, one of the 25 essential skills for a public speaker. The ability to analyze a speech will accelerate the growth of any speaker).
3. The students should turn in their homework of Lesson 5 this Sunday.
4. We will start learning Lesson 6.

Official trailer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RofpAjqwMa8

Lulu Wang (filmmaker)

Early life

Wang was born in Beijing, and was six years old when she and her parents immigrated to Miami, Florida, where she was raised.^[4][5] She began classical piano lessons at age four and attended the New World School of the Arts in Miami for piano performance.^[6] Wang graduated from Boston College in 2005 with a double major in literature and music.^[3] Shortly after, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in filmmaking. She is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.^[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_Wang_(filmmaker)

Director Lulu Wang made ‘The Farewell’ to find out what it means to say goodbye 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/07/22/director-lulu-wang-made-farewell-find-out-what-it-means-say-goodbye/

本学年教程要求学生学会唱两首中文歌曲，参加器乐合奏（两首中文歌曲）并在2020年一月校内春节联欢会上演出。

以下提供两首中文歌曲的歌词曲谱。有些乐器，需学生根据自己乐器做adaptation, 如 trumpet, trombone, saxophone,  clarinet, Pipa, flute ，等。 根据往年我的教学经验，学生或已具有所需乐理知识或可以琢磨出来。

请家长现在就督促孩子开始着手练习。

请欣赏我去年教的八年级标准中文甲班，在2019 春节器乐合奏演出录像：器乐合奏《一条大河》；合唱《我的祖国》

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《我和我的祖国》

作词：张藜  作曲：秦咏诚

我和我的祖国，一刻也不能分割，无论我走到哪里，都流出一首赞歌。

我歌唱每一座高山， 我歌唱每一条河，袅袅炊烟，小小村落，路上一道辙。

我最亲爱的祖国， 我永远紧依着您的心窝， 你用你那母亲脉搏和我诉说。

我的祖国和我，像海和浪花一朵，浪是那海的赤子，海是那浪的依托。

每当大海在微笑，我就是笑的旋涡，我分担着海的忧愁，分享海的欢乐。

请打开链接 《我和我的祖国》歌谱

我和我的祖国曲谱

近日接到校家长会要求，我们班须有一位Room Parent (班级家长代表)。

班级家长代表作为家长们和教师之间的交流沟通桥梁，也会成为校家长会的后续力量。请愿意参与为本班和学校服务的家长与我直接连系（到教室面谈或email）。

尊敬的家长及同学们， 欢迎来到牛顿中文学校《标准中文》九年级。请打开以下链接查看该课程的有关信息：

请购买：中国地图 (必须中文标示, 必须包括所有临国国界及附近海域)。

http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/weijian/%e4%b9%9d%e5%b9%b4%e7%ba%a7%e3%80%8a%e6%a0%87%e5%87%86%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87%e3%80%8b/

教室：315 (三楼）

欢迎家长参加头半个小时的课。