January 28, 2010 An Eight Period Day

Thursday, January 28, 2010 An Eight Period Day

Handout to All Classes Regarding Extra Credit:

Attend the special film screening of
“Inside Hana’s Suitcase: The Story of a Suitcase that Traveled from Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz to Tokyo”

Saturday, February 20
5:000 to 7:30 p.m.
Arthur J. Schmitt Academic Center (SAC) #154
2320 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614

Free Admission

If Kimmel Sensei sees you there, you will get extra credit!

Useful website for hiragana and katakana and some other things as well:
http://66.110.202.42/peachstar/explorer/units/lrnactiv/hir-live/homepg.htm




JAPANESE 3 -- First period

Practice plain negative verbs with choral speaking exercises:
のばさない、足　を　さわらない、ねじらない、まわさない、はくしゅ　しない、すわない、はかない、ふかない

Homework: Handout from 3 Kimono workbook, pp. 58 & 64


Collected translation of page 61, first photo story







JAPANESE 1 – Fifth period

Handout reviewing hiragana and animals (astrological animals and farm animals)


Collected translation of manga dialogue in　ひらがな、ROMAji, えいご

Homework: pp 92-94 in workbook






JAPANESE 2 Sixth Period

Work on reading and writing practice sheets, reviewing hiragana and katakana and vocab for nations and animal hospital.

Finish handouts for homework.

Collected translation of lesson 4 dialogue into English.　


Weather Presentations:

Dashona J. did not do her presentation about Strasbourg.
Ray T. did not do his presentation about Seattle.





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 – Seventh period


Collected translation of Ch 5 narrative into English.
Consulting 2 Nakama, page 171, students worked on handout from workbook, pages 84, 85, 86, 87, and 79.

Homework: Finish handout.


Jerome-kun found outstanding website for watching and listening to Japanese weather forecasts:
http://weathernews.jp


Useful website for vocabulary: search for Denshi Jisho in Google, has vocab and also information on each kanji constituting a word.


REMINDER: In doing high school assignments or college assignments or tasks out in the world, every one of us should be trying to do the best and most complete work possible, not the least possible.


You might like to work with the following kanji-learning website:

http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/kanjifiles/kanjicard.html