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** Lesson 1 Part 1: Common words and phrases ** **Click on the PowerPoint below: ** Part 2: To enable all the character lessons you must right click the yellow row just above this page. It will say "The website wants to run the following add-on. . ." Now left click on "Run ActiveX Control" Now let's begin learning characters! Study these four characters for 10-20 seconds--What are the similarities and differences? 人大太天  **First write from left to right then from top to bottom. Horizontal strokes go before vertical strokes. Each character has a correct stroke order**
 * Click on the play button on the video below and notice how the characters are written. It might take a minute to download.**



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[|B. Lesson 1 Handout person big sky and too.doc]
 * You are ready to begin writing characters.** **Print this handout and practice writing each of the characters. Fill in the whole page. Remember the stroke order: write from left to**  **right, then from top to bottom. ** 

Good job for your first day.

Lesson 2 Part 1: Review 人大太天 Click on the PowerPoint below to review. Follow the instructions: [|1-4, person.pps]

<span style="font-size: 150%; color: rgb(0,0,255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Part 2: Click on this file and read along with the reader:

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">Were you able to follow along with the story? Not only do you learn words from each characters, but characters often act as root words that combine with different root words (or characters) to create new words. Here are some words you can make by putting characters that you know together: 太太 wife 大人 adult 天天 everyday 人人 everyone

Now read this short story written in both English and Chinese characters. This type of a story is called a language weave: //One day there was a 大人 who loved the 天. 天天 he looked up into the 天. His family thought he looked up into the 天 太 much. But, he wanted to understand stars. The 天 was <span style="font-size: 117%; color: rgb(0,0,0);">太大 and <span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(64,64,64);">太 beautiful to not study. 天天 人人watched him observe the 天. They wondered what he saw in the 天. His// <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(64,64,64);">太太<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">天天 looked into the 天 with him. What do you //think they saw? Do you think that 大人spends 太 much time looking into the 天?// <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">

Now you try to write a short language weave story. Use these words: <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(128,0,0);"> 人 person 大big 太 too 天 sky 大人 adult 太大too big 太太wife 天天everyday 人人 everyone <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(128,0,0);">Great! Day two done. Check it off!