Class Notes & Assigments
Speakers: Share TSIS and Keys for Writers chapters
Share new phrase
Citations and references review
Work on your final revision
Apply lesson from chapter you read to your essay
Read classmates’ essays
Annotate your reference list
Phrases for discussion: “Where can you get more words like this?”
Speakers and discussion: Jerry, Wu You, George
Writing tip: “Think from your reader’s perspective”
Start working on your final revision
Notice a phrase and use it
Find a chapter in TSIS or Keys for Writers
All students do Speaker presentations next class
Going forward: Final revision
Speakers and discussion: Chris, Jingheng, Derrick
What is “depth”?
Note: Final revision due midnight on Sunday March 7
Respond to 2 classmates’ essays
Message me and tell me which essay you want to revise
Upload phrases to Box
Speakers: Wu You, George, Jerry
Speakers and discussion: Xiaoyi, Tanya, Tianji
The Art of Definition
Observations and discussion: Intersections articles
Draft of Essay 2 due Wednesday at midnight
Be ready to talk about “The Meaning of Cool” and The Chinese Have a Word for It next class
(Optional) Get started on homework due week after vacation
Speakers: Derrick, Jiaheng, Jingheng
Review words and phrases
Speakers and discussion: Rachael, Rixin, Kaige
Begin discussion of Essay 2 examples
Read the parts of the Pogosyan article that were missing!
Read my list of words and Essay 2 instructions
Read the four sample essays soon to be published in Intersections
Short writing assignment: Define a concept and explain why it’s interesting
Speakers: Xiaoyi, Tanya, Tianji
Review words and phrases
Speakers and discussion: Jerry, George, Wu You
Discuss “Cultural Keywords” article, share examples of cultural keywords
Read the parts of the Pogosyan article that were missing!
Read my list of words and Essay 2 instructions
Read the four sample essays soon to be published in Intersections
Short writing assignment: Define a concept and explain why it’s interesting
Speakers: Rachael, Rixin, and Kaige
Review words and phrases
Finish discussions from last class
Speakers and discussion: Tanya, Xiaoyi, Chris
Read Pogosyan article on cultural keywords
Read and respond to 2 classmates’ essays
Speakers: Jerry, George, Wu You (respond to East Meets West)
Review words and phrases
Mini-lecture: “Using the world as your language-learning textbook”
Speakers and discussion: Tianji, Jingheng, Kaige
Share observations and comments on MCMP2019 chapters
Essay 1 draft due Monday
Look at Liu Yang infographics (“East Meets West”)
Speakers: Tanya, Xiaoyi, Jiaheng
Review words and phrases
Writing to be read; contributing to the “literature”
Speakers (Derrick, Rachael, Rixin) and discussion
Be ready to share observations on MCMP 2019 Edition sample chapters
Keep researching & reading; rewrite beginning if necessary
Speakers: Tianji, Jingheng, Kaige
Readings from “Rituals of the Esenich”
Feedback on writing: A few words
Review words & phrases from last class
Speakers: Jerry, George, Wu You (share social scripts)
Going forward (intro to Essay 1)
Read excerpts from My Country and My People, 2019 Edition
Short writing assignment: Begin Essay 1
Skim tables of contents and request 3 chapters
(this part is due 6pm on Saturday!)
Speakers for next class: Derrick, Rachael, Rixin
Interview with a “cultural outsider”
Observations and discussion
Intro to “cultural scripts”
Read Meng Hongdang, “Social Script Theory and Cross-Cultural Communication”
Short writing assignment: Describe a social script
Read classmates’ “Rituals of the Esenich” and come ready to share a favorite passage
Intro to class: Why write about culture?
Close read “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”
Read Course Handbook
Finish reading “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”
Short writing assignment: “Rituals of the Esenich”
Think of an outsider to Chinese culture and come up with a list questions