Middle School Chinese Textbooks

This is the cover of the standard text book.

國文 means Chinese and that big 2 means second year. 上 right next to it but it got cut off. It means first semester, there's two of these per year.

Second Picture:

This is what it looks like on the inside. There's chapters of either ancient Chinese or just articles. The teacher won't talk much about the articles, the focus is mainly on the ancient Chinese.

As you can see, there's a picture of the author and then there's a picture of the book the piece came out of. Below each of them is a short history about them.

Third Picture:

This one is one of those articles. When going through these articles, the teacher points out where to look out for for the pronunciation and such.

Bottom Picture:

This is ancient Chinese, though it may look the same to you, it's totally different. In the past, people wrote concisely so to save space. It eventually got so concise that not much people can actually understand it...