Assignments (14)—Character Notebooks

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[a] Notebook RF

It's time to turn in your character notebooks, people. 

If you have been keeping up all term, you have methodically worked through stroke order and learned how to write almost a thousand Chinese characters. Think about that. Many hundreds. If I write a character on the board (something like "天命"), you can write it in your notebooks, along with the explanation (in English, if you are new to the language) about what "heaven's mandate" or "the mandate of heaven" really means. You also know something that almost none of your peers at other colleges and universities understand. If they are not studying Chinese, most of them have little comprehension that people speak and write about Chinese history in Chinese. 

News flash.

Well, you know better. You have been dutifully writing your characters with proper stroke order for fifteen weeks now. It is time to wrap up your work and to turn in your finished notebooks. 

They are due in class on Thursday, December 5. Late assignment penalties apply, but turn in what you have no matter what!

*If you are studying Chinese, you have even more reason to appreciate the subtleties of Chinese writing (and some of you are studying the lessons from the 卓文解字). Turn 'em in!

[b] Order RF