May 26, 2010 A Block Two Day

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 A Block Two Day








JAPANESE 3 -- First period

This class does not meet on Block Two days.






JAPANESE 1 – Fifth period。

Students took open-book test on chapter 7 (with extra vocabulary from Pikachu story). It was difficult, apparently.

Handout of June review for first year final.

Handout of NY Times article about Prime Minister Hatoyama’s change of heart about moving a U.S. military base to the town of Nago (despite his campaign promises).

On Board:

“non-past” tense, also functioning as
Future and
Habitual-present tense ----- ___ます、____ません

Ｅｘａｍｐｌｅｓ：

まいにち　せいと　は　こくばん　を　みます。Every day students look at the blackboard.

まいにち　せいと　は　えいが　を　みません。Every day students do not watch movies.


Review packet for final exam handed out.

Students must know the following kanji:

日本、日本語、日、月、水、火、木、金、土
日よう日、月よう日、火よう日、（Ｅｔｃ．）
一月、二月、三月　（Ｅｔｃ．）
木、林、森
田、山、川

日よう日, Nichiyoubi, Ｓｕｎｄａｙ

月よう日, Getsuyoubi , Ｍｏｎｄａｙ

火よう日, Kayoubi , Ｔｕｅｓｄａｙ

水よう日, Suiyoubi , Wednesday

木よう日, Mokuyoubi ,Ｔｈｕｒｓｄａｙ

金よう日 Kinyoubi ,Ｆｒｉｄａｙ

土よう日 Doyoubi, Ｓａｔｕｒｄａｙ


Last week we did kanji writing practice, including kanji we’ve already seen and new kanji with stroke order on the board for (for example)
糸、天、気、正しい、貝、男、足、手、目、耳、虫、白い、赤い、青い、口、女、子、人、山、木、林、森、夕、空、雨、川、田、犬、竹、草、花、早い、立つ、上、下、見る、左、右

In class Friday – typing/word-processing in Japanese, using hiragana, katakana, and kanji.
Sentences below:
We went over the sentences (below) using kanji．Students requested pronunciation of these kanji in the future.



REMINDER: We are at the point where we should no longer be using ROMAji. We now can write everything in hiragana and katakana.


Don’t forget sentence structure:
Time に Topic/subject は Destination に Traveling Verb
Time に Topic/subject は Direct Object を Active Verb

Reminders about verbs:

Traveling verbs:
いきました、いって　　　Ｗｅｎｔ
きました、きて　　　　　Ｃａｍｅ
はいりました、はいって　Ｅｎｔｅｒｅｄ
かえりました　Ｒｅｔｕｒｎｅｄ　（ｈｏｍｅ）
Family words, i.e. kinship terms:
ちち、おとうさん、おかあさん、おばあさん
New adjectives, and in the past tense!
あたらしい　です。　あたらしかった　です。Ｉｓ　ｎｅｗ．　Ｗａｓ　ｎｅｗ．
あつい　です。　あつかった　です。　Ｉｓ　ｈｏｔ．　Ｗａｓ　ｈｏｔ．
たのしい　です。　たのしかった　です。　Ｉｓ　ｅｎｊｏｙａｂｌｅ．　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ｗａｓ　ｅｎｊｏｙａｂｌｅ．

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JAPANESE 2 Sixth Period

Class went over quiz on 2 Kimono Chapter 7 vocabulary (and some grammar). Students who received D or E may retake the test.

Class listened to dialogue for 2 Kimono chapter 8 – introduction to potential conjugation for groups 1, 2, and 3.
On board:
Must distinguish between “may do” (permission) and “can do” (ability).

せいと　は　ローマじ　を　書いて（かいて）　は　いい　です。
Students may write ROMAji. It is OK for students to write ROMAji.

せいと　は　ローマじ　が　書けます（かけます）。
Students can write ROMAji. Students are able to write ROMAji.

Homework:
Workbook page 81, section B
Workbook page 84, section F


Review packet for final exam handed out.


Handout of NY Times article about Prime Minister Hatoyama’s change of heart about moving a U.S. military base to the town of Nago (despite his campaign promises).


Ｈｏｍｅｗｏｒｋ from Tuesday was：

百 ページ　と　百一ページ　を　読んで（よんで）下さい。それから　百五　－　百七ページ　を　えい語　で　かいて下さい。


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JAPANESE 4 and AP – Seventh period

Students worked on their final project, childrens’ stories, in the library.

REMINDER:
STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT ORALLY PRESENTED THEIR CULTURAL TOPICS MUST ARRANGE TO DO SO ON Tuesday, June 1st..

Below are guidelines for the childrens’ stories. Students had a chance to look at ways to physically produce their books, after they are written. Students sent their work-in-progress to Sensei by email:

最後のプロジェクト
子供のための物語
１． Length: between 800 and 900 characters
２． Use the plain past verb conjugational form consistently
３． Must be an original story suitable for children, not a traditional Japanese tale or a story from another source.
４． Must be illustrated, but you need not draw yourself. You may use images from the Internet, for example.
５． If you want an extra copy, make an extra copy yourself. The original will stay with the Japanese program for use by future Japanese classes.
６． Story must be submitted as a whole at the end of the story, after the illustrated version that is interspersed with pictures.
７． Students must email day’s progress to Sensei every day that we work on the stories in class.
８． Stories must be written in the plain/informal past tense.
９． Completed stories will be due on June 4th. All must be present for reading out loud on June 9th, exam day.



All students have had the opportunity to read three folktales 昔話（むかしばなし）so that they can begin to think about the original children’s stories (which must be illustrated) of similar (or longer) length that they will be writing for their final projects.