June 3, 2009 Wednesday Second Official Exam Day

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Second Official Exam Day




INDEPENDENT STUDY JAPANESE

This class has finished its final projects.

Please be sure to return Yookoso: Continuing with Contemporary Japanese




JAPANESE 1

This class had its oral exam today. Some of the settings and locales for the dialogues were:
1. a tour bus in Japan
2. on a train in Japan
3. on a cruise ship, where Oprah is stalked by an over-enthusiastic fan
4. a street corner in Chicago, where a suspicious policeman interrogates a teenager

Some students are planning to correct and redo their dialogues.

Important dates:

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!

Some of the students handed in their textbooks. The rest of you: be sure to bring yours on Friday.





JAPANESE 3

This class has finished its final exams and dialogues.

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



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.





JAPANESE 2

This class performed original dialogues for the oral exam today.
Some of the settings and locales were:
1. a surrealist shop where lawn mowers can be found inside tarantulas
2. Payton Freshman Orientation
3. a Japanese girl’s house in Japan, with a French girl coming to visit
4. long-separated twins meet for the first time on a path in the park
5. job interview at a school


requested vocabulary
food or bait for animals 餌｛えさ｝
fish bait 釣りの餌｛つり　の　えさ｝
to bait a hook (with a worm ミミゾ, for example}　　　
釣り針に餌をつける｛つり　はり　に　えさ　を　つける｝


＊＊＊＊Important reminder: using a native speaker to help you write your dialogue constitutes plaigiarism! This rule is a policy of Payton's world language department.＊＊＊＊


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.