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**‍ ****Chinese Traditional Festivals **
======== The course is designed for the students who are to attend the International English speech contest and have to prepare their topics about their own traditional festivals. >> Boss project：1). Make a presentation about four of the festivals in pairs of four in the form of an interview or a survey in front of the whole class. 2). Make an open speech about any festival. >> Reports on Crafting can provide up to 10 XP per week, but no more than 10 XP per week.The idea is that a quality Craft requires steady work over a period of time. The end product will testify to the quality of the work developed over time. A work hastily put together will never reach the quality a craftsman could reach if that effort was sustained over an extended period of development.
 * ‍ ****Course Objectives **
 * This course focuses on improving the students' ability to give an English Speech based on the learning of the Chinese Traditional Festivals.
 * The teacher will mainly train the students' reading, writing, listening, speaking, and presenting abilities to reach the aim of improving the students' ability to give an English Speech.
 * The students should get improved as follows: be familiar with the Chinese traditional festivals and can talk about them fluently and impressively; be experienced in usingbody language and facial expressions when expressing themselves; make an open speech freely.
 * The training will be promoted with the help of the computer, internet and multimedia. such as, e-texts, graphics, audios, and videos.
 * Role-play, interview, survey, and oral presentation will also be used to better engage the students in the process.
 * Teaching materials **
 * E-books, PPT, audios and videos.
 * Special rules **
 * 1) Expect Pilgrimages and __Quests__ to earn about 42% of the total XPs needed. A student may safely move on when unwanted redundancy is noted.
 * Pilgrimages are reading, listening, or watching experiences that then are written up as a report on the content acquired from the experience. Longer experiences require longer write-ups and generate the possibility of more XPs. The quality of the write-up matters in terms of what one has gained and understands. Most pilgrimages are worth up to 5 XPs (usually) or up to 10 XPs (for a fair number) . At least 60% of Pilgrimage/Quest XPs must be from Pilgrimages. Pilgrimages completed after May 28th may not be included on the BOSS Raid.
 * Quests are typically English Speech conpetition activity experiences, where one is expected to watch and briefly imitate making a speech, then write about the experience from an learner's perspective. Most quests are worth up to 5 XPs for a quality report that explains how it goes on, what it is like to make one. For higher XP counts, students should be concerned to report on all aspects of the inquiry.
 * 1) __Crafts__ (28%, 140/500 XPs) - Crafting assignments are linked to the Guild Hall. Students are required to complete the Beginner's Craft, and a BOSS Craft, and Mission Updates.
 * Beginners’ project: Make a presentation about the Spring Festival using PPT and give an oral introduction to it in front of the class. Pay attention to your pronunciation, intonation, gestures, body language and facial expressions.
 * 1) __Journals__ and __Surveillance__(up to about 16% or about 8% total each, to total 84/500 XPs) - Journals and Surveillance are relatively easy ways to get XPs, but an explorer may not get credit for more than one each per week (one Journal entry and one Surveillance report). Therefore, Journals and Surveillance cannot be done late, because that would yield more than one per week.
 * ==== The weeks start on Wednesday and end at 11:59 pm the following Tuesday. ====
 * Journal and Surveillance Reports are worth up to 3 XPs each, with an option for extra points awarded for particularly thorough Surveillance Reports. Journal entries have a far less likely possibility for extra points.
 * There are 14, each, Journal Entries and Surveillance Reports possible between January 2 and April 28.
 * 1) __Power-ups__ - Power-ups are extra points that will be given for certain accomplishments at various times during the course, as noted on the Power-ups page. Power-ups help ensure that students pursue optimum study strategies with regard to making good choices of material to consider and keeping up with work to be done in a timely fashion. Information on Power Ups is linked to the wiki sidebar.


 * ‍ ****‍ ****Grades **
 * The students will be graded according to the experience points (XPs) they will get from **Pilgrimages** (readings, sound, and video presentations of course content) and **Quests** (activities) that are recorded in their logs, such as PPT presentation, audio making, role-play vedio such as interview, survey. Experience points (XPs) also can be gained through regular **journal** entries reflecting on one's personal learning experience and **surveillance** reports observing work others pursue in the class.XPs are arranged into levels to help students experience their accomplishment in advancing through the course. **Projects** (Make an open speech) to allow students to gather larger "hauls" of experience points (XPs).
 * Level A is set for 223XPs, Level B is set for 198XPs, Level C is set for 173XPs, Level D is set for 148XPs.
 * Power-ups **
 * ====== The top 3 students of the course of get the chance to attend the speech contest and a free ticket to invite anyone you like to watch the contest together with you. ======
 * ====== Anyone who will be the Anyone who will get an A in the learning of the course shall get a free ticket to watch the speech contest. ======
 * ‍Calendar and paths **
 * ** Calendar **- The students in this course are for the speech contest to be held in July, so this course will start from April and end in June to allow plenty of time for the students to prepare for the international English contest. Please contact the teacher if there is a scheduling problem.
 * **__ Paths __**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">- The students in this course are to finish the assigned festivals in the process with the calendar.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Please contact the teacher if there is a scheduling problem.
 * **Great Room **- The place where you can post your Pilgrimages, Quests, Journals and Surveilance.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 29px;">Class Members **
 * Alice, Amy, Dell, Ellen, Evellyn, Harriet, Hellen, Nancy, Ted, Whitney
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 29px;">Attendance Policy **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The attendance policy for this courses requires students to be in every class. An explanation is expected if a student is not in attendance for a given day.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">A student who misses 2 weeks of class may be administratively withdrawn from the course without further notice. (Note: It is essential that students maintain contact with the teacher, even if a message must be relayed through another student. Relayed messages must be confirmed by the student in question as soon as possible.)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 29px;">‍Disclaimer **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">This syllabus is a good faith effort to predict how this course will proceed. The teacher reserves the right to make any changes as may be deemed necessary or desirable without advance notice.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The teacher for the course is Rosa, chenmianyun@sina.com. The course will be taught from April to June this year..