Unit 2: Ancient Calendar Art
Grade 6 Reading

For this project you are going to research and create a project on THE CHINESE CALENDAR. Please make sure that you include the following in your presentation:

What Does the Chinese Year Look Like?
What Years Are Leap Years?
How Does One Count Years?
What Is the Current Year in the Chinese Calendar?
What is the Chinese New Year's Day in Year 2007?
What are the 12 animals of the Chinese calendar?
What are the personality traits associated with each animal?
What are three ways to name a Chinese year?
What was the early Chinese calendar?
When were foreign calendars introduced?
Other important facts or interesting information you found while researching.

Web sites resources:
http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/calendar.htm
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-chinese.html
http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/apr99/calendar/index.html
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html

Please make sure that you include a list of sources that you used in your presentation.