Quarter 1 (2026-27)

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Course: Mandarin II - Ms. Pai
Book: Quarter 1 (2026-27)
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Date: Saturday, September 26, 2026, 9:12 AM

August 13/14

Unit #: Title

Knowing You & Me

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

know the teacher and classmates

Make my ID card


Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Daily routine (classroom rule)
  3. Design your own name stick
  4. Sign up "banzhang" sheet for August and September
  5. "Daily star" assign (Google Classroom sign up)
  6. "Seven things about me" assign (ref. My ID card or daily star questions)
  7. Da Zhong Xiao exercise
  8. My ID card


Homework
  • Complete...

1.Submit your summer work if you have them ( next Wednesday / Friday office hour)

2. Course Syllabus return slip (parent & student sign) due August 25

3. "Seven Things about Me" A4 paper poster show & tell ( August 21 present, send to Google Classroom and bring your hard copy to be submitted.



August 17/18

Unit #: Title

Knowing You, Knowing Me

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Understand course syllabus & class expectation

Introduce your classmates

Classroom Activities

 
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: AC1 review worksheet
  3. Daily routine
  4. Daily star: Heather 
  5. WL handbook presentation
  6. Syllabus 
  7. Class expectation and reward system
  8. Da Zhong Xiao exercise
  9. Inside outside circle
  10. collect My ID card

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Submit your summer work if you have them ( class time / this Wednesday / Friday office hour)

2. "Seven Things about Me" show & tell due August 21

3. Course Syllabus return slip (parent & student sign) due August 25

4. Review worksheet due 8/27

5. Bring your textbook & workbook next class if you have them

August 19/20 - Unit 1

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: join my quizlet class
  3. Daily routine
  4. L11 D1 video, Q & A, Read aloud , wbp. 2 T/F, p. 3 Q & A & B ask partner
  5. Learn D1 characters (notes taking, making sentence at least 7 character for each , underline the phrase you use)

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Submit your summer work if you have them ( class time / this Wednesday / Friday office hour)

2. "Seven Things about Me" show & tell due August 21 (upload your poster)

3. Course Syllabus return slip (parent & student sign) due August 25

4. Review worksheet due 8/27



August 21/24

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast


Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: rehearse picture talk / ck in Google Classroom HW
  3. Daily Star talk show: Chris
  4. New characters learning
  5. Picture Talk presentation (show & Tell)


Homework
  • Complete...

1. Submit your summer work if you have them ( class time / this Wednesday / Friday office hour)

2. "Seven Things about Me" show & tell due today

3. Course Syllabus return slip (parent & student sign) due August 25

4. Review worksheet due 8/27

5. L11 quizlet due 8/31



August 25/26

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: Syllabus slip due / rehearse presentation with a neighbor
  3. Daily star: Audrey
  4. Seven things about me show & tell finish up

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Course Syllabus return slip (parent & student sign) due today

2. Review worksheet due next class

4. L11 quizlet due 8/31

5.  IC 1 lesson 8,9, 10 quizlet 9/2



August 27/28

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: AC review worksheet due (peer ck in with a partner before submission)
  3. Daily star: 
  4. L11 new character learning, take notes
  5. Show & tell finishing

Homework
  • Complete...

1. L11 quizlet due 8/31

2.  IC 1 lesson 8,9, 10 quizlet 9/2

3. L11 D1 character sheet writing, making sentence at least 7 characters for each character, underline/ highlight the phrase you use for the sentence.

4. L11 D1 vocabulary quiz 9/8

Aug 31/Sept 1

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work:  wbp. 2-3 pinyin & tone
  3. Daily star : Chelsea
  4. New characters learning, take notes, make sentences
  5. Show & tell finishing

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Wbp. 4 B-5C due 9/2 next class 

2. L11 D1 character sheet writing, making sentence at least 7 characters for each character, underline/ highlight the phrase you use for the sentence.

3. L11 D1 vocabulary quiz 9/8

September 2/3

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

 
Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: wbp. 4B-5C due / wbp. 3 speaking A ask a neighbor / wbp. 6,7
  3. Daily star: Jonathan 
  4. HW review
  5. L1 D2 video
  6. D2 new characters learing

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Wbp. 3 A speaking (in written), p. 8.9.10E & F due 9/8

2. L11 D1 vocabulary quiz 9/8

2. D2 Character sheet writing

September 8/9

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: p. 3 speaking A (in written) / HW 8-10 E & F due
  3. Daily routine
  4. L11 D1 vocabulary quiz
  5. Weather PPT
  6. D2 video, wbp. 11 T/F
  7. D2 new characters take notes
  8. Seven things about me show & tell finish

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Wbp.12 Speaking A

2. L11 D2 quiz 9/14

4. L11 character sheet due 9/22

September 10/11

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: wbp. 11A pinyin & tone , p.12 B, 12-13 phrase/Wbp.12 Speaking A due
  3. Daily star
  4. D2 characters take notes

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Wbp.16 due 9/14

2. L11 D2 quiz 9/14

3. Moon festival quizlet due 9/16

4. L11 character sheet due 9/22

September 14/15

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work : HW  Wbp.16 due 
  3. Daily star
  4. D2 vocabulary quiz
  5. Show & tell finish 
  6. Moon festival group project assigned, grouping, meeting

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Wbp. 17 due next class

2. Moon festival quizlet due next class

3. Wbp. 17 C-18 D due 9/16

4. Wbp. 20 I (30 characters )& J (60 characters) due 9/22

5. L11 character sheet due 9/22

6. Moon festival presentation & party 9/24 

September 16/17

Unit #: Title

Culture -Moon Festival Celebration (September 25 this year)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Make a group project on traditional Festivals 

Review Chinese traditional holidays

Talk about similarities and differences in the way two festivals are celebrated 

Express agreement, excitement, or approval

Explain the source or origin of something

Understand major Chinese festivals and celebrations 

Understand festival foods and their symbolic meanings

Learn origins and legends of Chinese Festivals

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: Wbp. 17 due / Moon festival quizlet due 
  3. Group project finish 30% in class 

Homework
  • Complete...

1.Festivals culture notes worksheet due next class (Google Classroom)

2. Wbp. 20 I (30 characters )& J (60 characters) due 9/22

3. L11 character sheet due 9/22

4. Moon festival presentation & party 9/24 

5. Four Seasons show & tell 9/2

6. L11 test 9/4

September 18/21

Unit #: Title

Culture -Moon Festival Celebration (September 25 this year)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Make a group project on traditional Festivals 

Review Chinese traditional holidays

Talk about similarities and differences in the way two festivals are celebrated 

Express agreement, excitement, or approval

Explain the source or origin of something

Understand major Chinese festivals and celebrations 

Understand festival foods and their symbolic meanings

Learn origins and legends of Chinese Festivals

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: 
  3. Finish group project 70 % (included 30% last class)

Homework
  • Complete...

1. Wbp. 17 C-18D & 19G & 20 I (30 characters )& J (60 characters) due 9/22

2. L11 character sheet due 9/22

3. Moon festival presentation & party 9/24 

4. Four Seasons show & tell 9/2 (Google Classroom)

5. L11 test 9/4

6. L11 WB due 9/4

2. D2 Character sheet writing, due 9/24

3. Test study guide L11 Post activity sheet due 9/26 (bring it 9/24 for part 3 culture minute Q & A)

September 22/23

Unit #: Title

Culture -Moon Festival Celebration ( September 25 this year)

诗篇72:5 太阳还存,月亮还在, 人要敬畏你,直到万代!(Simplified Character)

詩篇72:5 太陽還存,月亮還在, 人要敬畏你,直到萬代!(Traditional Character)

May he endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations. (Psalm 72:5)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Make a group project on Moon Festival 

Review Chinese traditional holidays

Understand major Chinese festivals and celebrations 

Understand festival foods and their symbolic meanings

Learn origins and legends of Chinese Festivals

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: Wbp. 17 C-18D & 19G & 20 I (30 characters )& J (60 characters) due / L11 character sheet due / sit with your group people
  3. Daily routine 
  4. Group project (use your class time productively) complete and rehearse in class
  5. Sign up party sheet if you need to have last minute change
 
Homework
  • Complete...

1.Everyone upload your group project if you have slide show. "Skit" group need to upload your script (everyone)

 late work 80% grade ( Bring one rubric with all your names on it for group grading )

2. Bring party food or whatever you signed up as participation grade.

3. Moon festival presentation/party next class!

4. Four Seasons show & tell 10/2 (Google Classroom)

5. L11 test 10/6

6. L11 WB due 10/6

September 24/25

Unit #: Title

Culture -Moon Festival Celebration ( September 25 this year)

诗篇72:5 太阳还存,月亮还在, 人要敬畏你,直到万代!(Simplified Character)

詩篇72:5 太陽還存,月亮還在, 人要敬畏你,直到萬代!(Traditional Character)

May he endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations. (Psalm 72:5)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Make a group project on Moon Festival 

Review Chinese traditional holidays

Understand major Chinese festivals and celebrations 

Understand festival foods and their symbolic meanings

Learn origins and legends of Chinese Festivals

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: Group project Rehearsal / ck in party food/drink/cups/plates/napkins (Participation grade)
  3. Daily routine
  4. Group project presentation /party 

Homework
  • Complete...

1.Everyone upload your group project if you have slide show. "Skit" group need to upload your script (everyone)

 late work 80% grade ( Bring one rubric with all your names on it for group grading 

2. Four Seasons show & tell 10/2 (Google Classroom)

3. L11 test 10/6

4. L11 WB due 10/6

5. Bring workbook next week

September 28/29

Unit #: Title

Culture -Moon Festival Celebration ( September 25 this year)

诗篇72:5 太阳还存,月亮还在, 人要敬畏你,直到万代!(Simplified Character)

詩篇72:5 太陽還存,月亮還在, 人要敬畏你,直到萬代!(Traditional Character)

May he endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations. (Psalm 72:5)

 
Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Make a group project on Moon Festival 

Review Chinese traditional holidays

Understand major Chinese festivals and celebrations 

Understand festival foods and their symbolic meanings

Learn origins and legends of Chinese Festivals

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: sit with your group people / L11 word search
  3. Daily routine
  4. Weather PPT
  5. Moon Festival presentation finish

Homework
  • Complete...

1.Bring Workbook next class

2. Four Seasons show & tell 10/2 (Google Classroom)

3. L11 test 10/6

4. L11 WB due 10/6

Sept 30/Oct 1

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

 
Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: L11 post activity preview question
  3. Daily routine
  4. Daily star
  5. L11 culture minute, Q & A
  6. L11 workbook listening

Homework
  • Complete...

1.Four season show & tell (bring your colorful hard copy and upload to Google Classroom)

2. L11 test 10/6 (study guide on Google Classroom)

3. L11 WB due 10/6

4. L11 Post activity sheet due 10/8

October 2/5

Unit #: Title

IC 2 Lesson 11 Weather

Bible verse: 地还存留的时候,稼穑、寒暑、冬夏、昼夜就永不停息了。” (创世记8:22)"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22)

Objectives
  • Students will be able to...

Employ basic terms for weather patterns and phenomena

Describe simple weather changes

Compare the weather of two places

Talk about what you may do in nice or bad weather

Present a simple weather forecast

Classroom Activities
  1. Devotional/Prayer...
  2. Bell work: Grouping / Four Seasons show & tell due (Google Classroom & hard copy)
  3. Daily routine
  4. Daily star
  5. Show & tell 
Homework
  • Complete...

1. L11 test 10/6 (study guide on Google Classroom)

2. L11 WB due 10/6

3. L11 Post activity sheet due 10/8