- Exchange Program, China
Trips and Pen Pals: We have an exchange program with Hefei
City School in China and our students write to our pen pals in that
city. We offer a trip to China every other year. We
had 21 people for the trip in 2002 and 18 in 2004. One of our
students had the tremendous experience to address 2000 high school
students in Chinese at the Hefei school morning assembly.
Our last trip was in spring break, 2006 and there were 26 students and
parents participated in the trip. Click here to view China trip
movie. This movie is 10.8 MB and will take a few minutes to
load.
Exchange teachers from Hefei periodically come to help us with the
speaking and listening
drills and cultural topics while our teachers visit them and
demonstrated the teaching techniques. Click here to view a movie made by our
students for our exchange schools. This movie is 9.5 MB and will
take a few minutes to load.
- Summer Study Abroad
Opportunity: We sent our students to summer language
home-stay program starting in 2005.
- The OSU Distance-Learning
Program: The seniors can take OSU Independent Instruction
Chinese courses in the Upper School Library through tele-conferencing
equipment. The students can earn up to 20 college credits.
- Chinese AP and
Chinese SATII: Chinese students can take will AP test in
May, 2007. The students can also take Chinese SAT II.
- College Placement:
Many Academy Chinese students test out of three college semester
courses.
- Chinese Computer
Software: We have Chinese word processing software built
into all the computers at the school.
- Web-Accessible
Curriculum: We use textbooks developed by Hawaii
University and Carnegie Melon and can be accessed from the web which
includes sound files, entire text, worksheets, drills, games, etc.
- Chinese Honor
Society: CA students can apply for Chinese Honor Society
membership from the national organization.
- Chinese Field
Trips: We have field trips during the school. The
trips include visiting tea shops, grocery shopping, Tibetan
Temple, Chinese restaurants, and Columbus Museum of Art.
- Chinese Language
Activities: We do many projects, which include Two Weeks
Vacation in China, New Year card, Family Album, Clothing Catalog,
Suzhou Garden, Gingerbread Feng Shui House, Chinese Dynasties,
Interview with a Famous Historical Chinese Figures, Marco Polo, Chinese
Inventions, iMovie projects, etc.
- Chinese Cultural
Activities: We have many cultural activities which include
calligraphy, Chinese painting, paper folding, paper cuttings, flying
kites, dancing, fashion show, cooking, just to name a few. Click here to view a cultural
activity. This movie is 4.8 MB and will take a few minutes to
load.
- Chinese New Year
Celebrations: The Chinese New Year is celebrated with the
entire school. The festival activities are designed and hosted by
the Chinese language students. Click here to view New Year
movie. This movie is 8.3 MB and will take a few minutes to load.
- Guest Speakers and
Visitors: We bring in outside speakers to enrich our
students. The most recent group was Chinese puppeteers for the
Lower School special assembly which our 7th grade students
attended. Our upper school students also go to the middle school
classes to give them pep talks.
- Service Projects: The
seniors do service projects teaching lower school classes about Chinese
culture.
- School Support:
The school has been extremely supportive to our program.
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