June 2, 2009 Tuesday First Official Exam Day

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 First Official Exam Day




INDEPENDENT STUDY JAPANESE


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.

All students read from their final-project autobiographies and then discussed various aspects of the contents with Sensei, in Japanese.

Please be sure to return Yookoso: Continuing with Contemporary Japanese




JAPANESE 1

This class did not have its oral exam 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 performed their dialogue/trio final dialogues today. Some of the locales for these restaurants were:
1. Corner of Diversey and Clark, near Miss Asia Restaurant
2. space where characters from Sesame Street and Big Comfy Couch television programs cold meet
3. Disneyland in Japan, with the intention of visiting a “shrine” to Mickey
4. Payton’s lunchroom
5. a street in Osaka

Some students handed in their 3-Kimono textbooks. The rest of you: be sure to bring them back as soon as possible


Important date:

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

Assignment for all AP students is to do the ten kanji lessons from Kanjistep.com. Make a flashcard for each of the 100 kanji they introduce. That is your summer homework.


Rules for Final Dialogues were:

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

This class did not have its oral exam today.

Important dates:
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

Students did not present their final film projects today.





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.