April 1, 2009 Wednesday A Block Two Day

Wednesday, April 1, 2009, A Block Two Day




Independent Study Japanese


This class does not meet on Block Two days.






Japanese 1

Classwork: Use kanjistep.com site　（accessing through laptop carts) for reviewing katakana from beginning through ホ。　Write all supplementary katakana words and their English translations from the practice pages.
Send postcard through site.
Use Google to look up "Jero" -- write three paragraphs about him for homework for Friday.




Japanese 3

Ema (small signboard for writing wishes) project

Boone Kasuga Taisha Jinja
Yu Horyuji in Nara
Yan Todaiji in Nara
Sarchet Asakusa Kannon
Harrington Daibutsu in Kamakura
Tena Tsuru-ga-oka Hachiman-guu
Washington Kiyomizu-dera
Jara Byodo-in
Zhuang Meiji Jinguu
Amorntheerakul Ginkaku-ji
Cheng Kinkaku-ji

Design an ema with appropriate image; write 5 wishes on the back

Homework pages 102-103 workbook

Special vocabulary:
Special handouts from Australian text 「高校生活」、known as “High School Life” in English, pages 20 and 22, conjugation in all plain forms except plain past negative.







Japanese 2


The class welcomed a guest speaker, Mr. Levi VernonBrey, who has lived and worked in Japan for the last eight and a half years. He came to school with Rachel Goldberg’s father. He was so eloquent, charming, and informative that we devoted the entire period to listening to what he had to say about a “foreigner’s”life in Japan, Japanese language learning, Japanese food, Japanese public transportation and cities, and many other subjects.

Homework: Bring store signs (a visual item separate from the price list) on Friday.


Remember what was on board yesterday:

｛おみせ　は　何｛なん｝です　か。｝

何　｛なに｝を　売ります{うります}　か。

＿＿＿＿＿＿　は　＿＿＿＿＿＿＿　　　＿＿＿＿　円　　　です。
Product Number-counter price

Nouns of Position:

隣｛となり｝、間｛あいだ｝、上、下、前、後ろ、右、左、中

Students held up price lists for their stores and responded to questions in Japanese: “what do you sell?””how much is it?”

traditional Japanese store categories.


ペット屋、Pet Store, 　Hershfang、　Murphy
くだもの屋、Goldberg and Pairs　fruit store
おもちゃ屋　toy store　Jackson、Zankowiak
でんき屋　small electrical appliances
店、みせ、テン,　character for store that can stand by itself　
　（but 屋　exists only in compounds）
デパート、Department store　Tenorio, Zavala
スーパー、Supermarket　Diaz、Amurau
くすり屋,　Pharmacy　Diallo, Thimsuwan
ゆうびんきょく,　Post Office
金もの屋,　Hardware Store　Amorntheerakul, Song
ようふく屋、　Clothing store　Appling, Chan
おかし屋　Candy store James、Flores
本屋　Bookstore Mascarenas、Mine
パン屋　Bakery　Yamasaki, Cambron
花屋　はなや　Flower Shop Perez, Loeschke, Santoyo


In class : Iimashou Ichi for Chapter 7, kinds of stores and their locations
Homework: Continue to work with this page, as we will use it again as we talk tomorrow.




Japanese 4 and AP

AP and Japanese 4 groups took their different tests for “A Homestay in Japan” Chapter 6


Collected one typed page: summary of Kabuki handout



Begin ch 7, pages 69---top paragraph of 70

Discussion following items:　

Review : giving/receiving, now adding honorific/humilific forms

あげる　,　 さしあげる
くれる, くださる（下さいますIrr.）
もらう, いただく

Work on sample sentences, as follows.

I give fruit to the neighbor/ the President.
The neighbor/the President gives fruit to me.
I receive fruit from the neighbor/the President


Homework: reread pages 92-99 in Yookosoo: Continuing…

Useful website for vocabulary: search for Denshi Jisho in Google, has vocab and also information on each kanji constituting a word.


Feuer　――　not yet performed “Driving Tour of Chicago”

Little Italy
Planetarium
Sox Park
Margie's Candies
Wicker Park

Hancock Observatory

REMINDER: we must realize something important. In doing high school assignments or college assignments or tasks out in the world, every　one of us should be trying to do the best and most complete work possible, not the least possible.


Be sure to continue to work with kanji-learning website

http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/kanjifiles/kanjicard.html