CT curriculum standrads

What standard am I going to using as a target of focus this semester?

I am a Chinese language teacher; I concentrate on world language discipline.  There are nine standards.  Some of the content standards are very similar to ACTFL's five C’s standards that are familiar to me.  I have embedded into my daily teaching plans. 
Today, I would like to use grades 9-12 on standard 2 “Communication Interpretive” as a target of focus this semester.  This is my fourth year teaching Upper School Chinese.  From my personal experience, students are not strong in communication interpretive skill to improve a better and deeper understanding of the language and the culture.  Therefore, I like to focus on providing spoken and written language such as: presentations, lectures, newspapers, native recordings, authentic poems, painting, and songs for students to have a higher skill to interpret variety of topics. 

How can I link activities for different learning styles to this standard?

1.      Research the background of an authentic Chinese poem.  Recite it with correct tones and gestures to interpret the authors feeling.

2.      Understand this poem and the main ideas and transform it into a painting

3.      Post the poem on voice thread or blog for others to comment

4.      Select culturally significant songs for students to understand the artwork, the background, and the appropriate social behavior.  Then, students can analyze a culture phenomenon

5.      Listen to current important news to understand the main idea, give your opinion of why it might be important to the people who hear it

6.      Use Flip or Wimba to record live conversation for students to interpret the main ideas and important details

7.      Total Physical Response, charades and information gap classroom activities for students to comprehend the meanings.

I truly believe that these linking activities will make learning Chinese effective and interesting.