Friday, May 29, 2009

May 29, 2009 Friday An Eight Period Day

Friday, May 29, 2009 An Eight Period Day



INDEPENDENT STUDY JAPANESE

No students were present – day of senior prom.

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.




JAPANESE 1

Students took first part of scantron final today.

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. BE SURE TO BRING BACK YOUR TEXTBOOK!



JAPANESE 3

Students took the first part of the scantron final today.

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.



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


Rules for Final Dialogues:

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

Students took first half of scantron final today.

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 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

Most students were absent today because of Senior Prom, but those who attended (Cerda, Lee, Liu, Dow) continued to work on their final project films.





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.