Can-do Statements (based on National Standards)

Upon completion of the unit, students will be able to do the following based on national standards.

Communication:

• I can identify the main idea and some supporting details about social commerce.

• I can describe the pros and cons of social commerce and online shopping in paragraphs with some detail.

• I can participate in conversations and exchange information regarding online shopping and social media.

• I can present my ideas an organized manner and incorporate some supporting details.

Focused Interpretive Reading Skills:

• Through reading closely, I can determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it.

• I can cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.

• I can interpret words and phrases used in a text, including determining connotative and figurative meanings, and I can analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

• With some instructional help, I can assess how the author’s viewpoints or purposes shape the content of a text, and form my own interpretation and opinions regarding the text.  

Cultures:

• I can identify the most popular social media platforms in the Chinese-speaking world.

• I can describe and explain the pros and cons of social commerce from different cultural perspectives and perceptions.

• I can interpret how people are culturally conditioned to adopt social media for shopping purposes.

Comparisons:

• I can compare and contrast, analyze, synthesize, interpret and predict different shopping behavioral practices on social media platforms.

Communities:

• I can use Chinese to exchange views and experience about shopping both within and beyond the classroom on different social media platforms to interact with the community and the world.

Pre-reading: Predicting, skimming, scanning, previewing with purpose, activating cultural background and prior linguistic knowledge.

During-reading: Rauding, learning, determining text type with the use of textual organizers; identifying main ideas, classifying supporting details, categorizing contextual clues (sequence markers, transition markers, discourse markers, etc.); conjecturing word/phrase meaning from the context; making inferences with in-text cues and/or gap-filling strategies; using comprehension monitoring behaviors to enhance reading efficiency.