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2009

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Save the Date!

Crane House Lunar New Year Celebration

Year of the Ox

Dinner & Auction

Saturday,

January 24, 2009

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Honorary Chair
The Honorable Elaine Chao

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JumpStart
CHINESE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

Crane House is very excited and pleased to open a weekly follow-up program for Startalk students from September 28 through November 30, 2008.   The aim of the program is to help students review and apply what they learned during the Crane House three-week intensive Chinese Language Institute in July, 2008 to their daily lives while furthering their knowledge of Chinese language and culture.  These goals will allow students to apply their knowledge into real world settings.

The follow-up program runs for one hour each Sunday for 10 weeks plus two sessions of discussion with guest speakers at Crane House. The course consists of 2 levels, with 2 classes per level: novice-low and novice-mid. As with the summer STARTALK program, there is no fee for attending this program.   Interested Startalk students please contact Dr. Helen Pan, Startalk Program Director at startalk@insightbb.com or (502)228-8246/ (502)635-2240.

Jump Start is a StarTalk national language project. Administered by the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland, in conjunction with the Federal Initiative for Critical Need Languages, and in partnership with Jefferson County Public Schools, University of Louisville Chinese Studies, and Crane House, in Louisville Kentucky.

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Click here for a listing of other StarTalk Chinese language programs around the nation.

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    • Language Arts, English, Writing, Literature
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    • World Languages and World Literature
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Programs for levels pre-k through post-graduate

  • On site at Crane House
  • Asia workshop on choice of one specific country (China, Japan, Korea, India) or a general Asia workshop combining any of above countries.
  • Program components–sample menu (inquire about other activities)
    • Culture slides or video: age-appropriate, with interactive Q& A discussions
    • Discovery Box artifacts: hands-on exploration of cultural objects
    • Foods and eating: discussion of foods display and table etiquettes
    • Asia Gallery: interactive discussion of historical and contemporary artifacts of East and South Asia
    • Chinese music: interactive discussion of instruments display and hearing
    • various instrument sounds
    • Hands-on activities: writing numbers, papercutting, paperfolding/origami, festival-related, folk dance, literature-based activities, etc.
  • Off-site (local, regional, statewide, interstate)
    • Asia workshop on choice of one specific country (China, Japan, Korea, India) or a general Asia workshop combining any of above countries.
  • Program components–sample menu (inquire about other activities)
  • Culture slides or video: age-appropriate, with interactive Q & A discussions
  • Cultural artifacts display: age appropriate, with interactive Q & A discussions
  • Hands-on activities: writing numbers, papercutting, paperfolding/origami, festival-related, folk dance, literature-based activities, etc.

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