DLI 2-3

In this lesson, read through the information for each character. In your character notebook, draw a picture or cartoon of the story that will help you remember the character. Then take the quiz.

ma

yes/no?
口 + 马mǎ
mouth + horse

asking someone: Do you like horses ?

shéi

who
讠 + 隹zhuī
microphone + special bird

in a microphone: "Who let the turkeys out? Who? Who? Who?"

huì

meeting
8 + I
meeting + Great Wall

ultimate summit meeting: on the Great Wall

period of time
其qí + 月
laundry basket + month

after a period of time, the laundry basket begins to stink: a month is too long between washes

you
亻 + 尔
persona + you [literary]

alternatively: 亻 + ⺈ + 小 persona + mask + small: your persona says, “You (little person)! Put this mask on.”

人尔你

I, me
手 + 戈
hand + rifle

I've got a right to my rifle!"

alternatively: a picture of a hand pointing to its other hand

suì

years of age
山 + 夕
mountain + evening

when you are of age, you can go the mountains in the evening

each year you get taller, maybe as high as a mountain, measure your height at your evening party

méi

not have
氵 + 殳
water + boomerang

boomerang territory (Western Australia) does not have much water

alternatively: 氵 + 几 + 又 water + wind + right hand: water washes it away, so there is nothing left, wind blows it away, so there is nothing left, hand brushes it away, so there is nothing left

zhè

this
文 + 辶
gentleman farmer + road

alternatively: 亠 + 乂 + 辶 top hat + X + road, you see a top hat on the road and when you pick it up, underneath an X marks this spot

A gentleman farmer Robert Frost wrote this poem: “The Road Not Taken” OR "This Gentleman Farmer: During the Dust Bowl, many have to leave their farms. This gentleman farmer is one of them." (1930's On the Road)

wén on the road…zhè! (to the tune of "Minimum wage! Hyah!")

DLI 2-3

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