May 22, 2009 Friday An Eight Period Day

Friday, May 22, 2009 An Eight Period Day




INDEPENDENT STUDY JAPANESE


Upcoming important dates:

Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
Autobiographies will be read aloud at 9:48 a.m.



Today students continued working on final autobiography project: 自伝

Work emailed in was printed out with suggestions for improvement and correction.


Year　に Place で　生めまれ増した｛うまれました｝。

二才｛にさい｝の　時
わかい　時
こまって　います・困りました｛こまりました｝Is upset, was upset
幼稚園｛ようちえん｝Kindergarten
保育園｛ほいくえん｝Pre-school

私　が　生まれた　時　・・・





JAPANESE 1


Upcoming important dates:

Friday, May 29 – first scantron day　　金よう日、五月二十九日
Monday, June 1 – second scantron day　月よう日、六月一日
Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
Wednesday, June 3 – our oral exam (original dialogues)　水よう日、六月三日
At 9:48 a.m.

Projected kanji review:

日　にち, Sun, day
月　つき,Moon, month
火　か　Fire
水　お・みず,Water
木　き,Tree,wood
金　お・かね, Money,gold
土　つち, Dirt, earth
林　はやし,Woods
森　もり, Forest
山　やま、さん　,Mountain
川　かわ, River
田　た、だ, Rice Field
百　ひゃく
火山　かざん,Volcano
日本、日本語

In class, we went over these sentences:

Here is a slightly weird week with kanji. Can you figure out what these sentences mean?

日よう日 の 日 は あつかった です。
hi
____________________________________________________

月よう日 の お月さん は すごかった です。
tsuki
_______________________________________________

火よう日 に わたし は うち の 火 じ を みました。
ka
__________________________________________

水よう日 に わたし は お水 を のみました。
mizu
_____________________________________

木よう日 に せんせい は さくら (cherry) の 木 を みました。
ki

__________________________________________

金よう日 に ともだち は お金 を つかいました (spent)。
kane
_____________________________________

土よう日 に にわ の 土 は きたなかった です。
tsuchi
__________________________________________

Handout: an abbreviated First Year Japanese June Review
1. verb and adj. tenses and vocabulary--active verbs, traveling verbs
2. vocab (categories)
food, places (destinations), activities, family members, means of transport, classroom objects
3. how to do self-intro
name, age, phone, address, birthday, astrological year
4. astrological animals and other animals
5. time
hours of day, months, days of week
today, tomorrow, yesterday, next week, summer vacation
6. relational particles
7. hiragana, katakana, kanji, ROMAji
8. sentence structure
9. kanji: 1-100, sun, moon, fire, water, wood/tree, gold/money, dirt/earth, days of week, months of year, rice field, river, mountain, forest, Japan, Japanese language
Discussion of final dialogue:
Possible locales suggested by students: train, park, phone call, Koopa Village, cruise ship, downtown Chicago, tour bus, car, garden, the beach (ocean), spaceship
Possible characters suggested by students: Oprah and fan, Mario and Luigi, astronaut, spaceman, alien from another planet, …
Dialogue should be 5 pages long, running about 3 minutes, memorized.
Each student must hand in a copy of the dialogue in Japanese, and its translation in English.
Try to use as much of the vocabulary and grammar structures we’ve learned as possible.




JAPANESE 3



Upcoming important dates:

Friday, May 29 – first scantron day　　金よう日、五月二十九日
Monday, June 1 – second scantron day　月よう日、六月一日
Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
And our oral exam at 11.22 a.m.


Worked on Final Dialogues

Rules:
1. One Place
2. One time
3. same characters
4. each student must hand in a bi-lingual script
5. use plain forms of verbs, since they were central to this year’s curriculum
6. use as much of this year’s vocab and grammar as possible

Reminder of Pattern sentences from final chapter of 3 Kimono:

Field　{の中}で　Subject　は　一番　Adjective (+ noun)　です。

A　の　方　が　B　より　＿＿＿＿（Adjective）　です。







JAPANESE 2


Upcoming important dates:

Friday, May 29 – first scantron day　　金よう日、五月二十九日
Monday, June 1 – second scantron day　月よう日、六月一日
Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
Wednesday, June 3 – our oral exam (original dialogues)　水よう日、六月三日
At 8:00 a.m.

Rules for Dialogues:
1. One place
2. One time
3. Same characters
4. Each individual must hand in a bi-lingual script
5. use as of this year’s grammar and vocab as possible

Some requested vocabulary:
歩道、ほどう、Sidewalk, footpath
おなか　が　すきました　｛I｝ am hungry
わたしたち　　We
たいいくかん、こうてい　Gymnasium, school yard

Some dialogue locals and characters reported so far:
1. two hunters in a forest
2. a teacher interviews for a job at a school
3. farm and farm workers
4. sushi bar, customer and owner


Teacher has already done an oral interview of some students regarding 池田｛いけだ｝利夫｛としお｝
百十六ページ：Song, Chan, Goldberg, Zavala
Teacher will interview the others, as well, on Tuesday, May 26th. Class as a whole was notified today.




Reminder: We all must be polite in the Japanese language classroom. Not only is it important in our lives in general – it is an essential part of Japanese culture. ください、おねがい　します、ありがとう、すみません　Are the most important words and phrases in Japanese.





JAPANESE 4 and AP


Upcoming important dates:

Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
Thursday, June 4 – films will be shown at 9:48 a.m.




Film project groups:

1. Howell,　Pasidparchya, Cerda, Liu – this group sent in script material today.


2. Hoogstraten, Edwards, Curran, Krogh

3. Feuer, Bingham, Dow, Lee

4. Mui, Williams, Potter, Reyes

5. Imaoka, Lai, Schabes, Wu



The plan has been to do a film project, in groups of four, 2 AP students and 2 fourth year students in each group.
Film 2:　星旅｛ほしたび｝　Or　星戦争｛ほしせんそう｝、
　　　　　　　　　Star Trek or Star Wars　





Reminder to all about oral answers to questions on page 73 of 日本との出会い。
Previously, Cerda, Krogh, Hoogstraten, Mui, Liu, Wu, Lai, Williams, and Lee gave their answers.
Wenesday, Dow, Howell, Potter, and Reyes were called upon.
Today, Pasidparchya and Curran answered questions.
Those students who have not answered, now have a zero in GradeQuick for that assignment. The zero will remain until the assignment is performed.