May 28, 2009 Thursday A Block Two Day

Thursday, May 28, 2009 A Block Two Day



INDEPENDENT STUDY JAPANESE

This class does not meet on Block Two days.

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.



Yesterday students continued working on final autobiography project: 自伝

Handed out requested summary of grammar points, Chapters 1-7, “An Encounter with Japan” and associated information from Yookoso: Continuing…
Appears as a separate post on the blog

See material in Japanese 4/AP section, below


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.

Today’s pre-final review included:
1. review of family words (a.k.a. kinship terms)
2. adjectives, present and past tense
3. katakana practice sheet, ル through ン
4. time words, on a timeline on the board, as follows

----Past-------Now-------Future----

-------------- いま

-------きのう----きょう----あした
---Yesterday---today----Tomorrow

--せんしゅうーーーこんしゅうーーーーらいしゅう
ーLast wkーーーThis wkーーーーーNext wk

せんげつーーーーーこんげつーーーーーーーーらいげつ　　　　　　　
せん月ーーーーーーこん月ーーーーーーーーーーらい月
Last monthーーThis MonthーーーーーNext Month





Friday’s Handout was 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
Students worked on final dialogues in class, with input by teacher:
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: grandchild and grandfather, 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.

Comprehensive kanji handout, from this year’s Japanese 3 class and past years’ Japanese 3 class.


Earlier this week, handed out AP Kanji sheet from website to students who will take AP next year.
http://gatoh.marinebat.com/ap/index.number_index.html


Worked on Final Dialogues, in groups.

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


One second (in time)—一秒　｛いちびょう｝








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.

Handout of “Lilo and Stitch” story for review’’


1。ステイッチ は ロケット に うまれました が ハワイ に すんで います。

2。(ステイッチ は) あおくて せ が ひくい です。

3。 手(て) が 四つ あります。

4。ステイッチ は リロ と リロ の ハワイ の ごかぞく が すき です。

5。リロ の おねえさん は ステイッチ が すき じゃ ない です。

6。ステイッチ は はしたい｛Wants to run｝ と 言いました。

7。ステイッチ は 『スケートボード が ほしい｛Wants｝ です』
と 言いました。

8。(ステイッチ は) スケートボード が じょうず です。

9。ステイッチ は ロケット の うちゅうじん が きらい です。


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 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
5. Husband and wife arguing


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、Amorntheerakul, Cambron, Mine, Yamasaki, Mascarenas, Diallo, Jackson
Pairs, Thimsuwan, Santoyo, and Tenorio were　also interviewed Wednesday, May 27th. Class as a whole was notified last Friday. Be sure to see Kimmel Sensei after school to be interviewed, if you have not been interviewed yet. This is a graded oral exercise.




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


Students continued to work on their final project films. The Mui/Reyes/Potter/Williams were shooting today.

Some corrections to scripts were discussed, for example:

みわたす　Or みて　わたる、But not みてわたす



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.

Requested grammar review material from “An Adventure in Japan”, chapters 1-7, plus correlative grammar material from Yookoso: Continuing… now appears as a separate entry on the blog.


Film project groups:

1. Howell,　Pasidparchya, Cerda, Liu

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.