Thursday, May 27 2010 Seminar Day
Japan Exchange Seminar
1. Students checked to make sure all required documents were in their folders.
2. Handout regarding Sankei-en, a park, garden, and outdoor museum of historic buildings
3. Discussion of propsed cultural presentation
a. Ethnic fashion show – narrative by Kimmel Sensei
i. Hispanic: Mexican, Cuban, Brazilian clothing items
ii. Asian: Chinese, Japanese
iii. African-American?
b. Group dance: cha cha slide
c. Individual dances: Soulja boy; How Down Throw Down; Single Ladies; The Jerk
d. Walt Whitman poem, “I Hear America Singing” read in sequence, first in English, then in Japanese – Kimmel Sensei to do translation?
e. Song, “Keep America Singing”? Can we do it well enough?
4. Record pages for linguistic record of trip
5. Next evening meeting at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday June 2nd
6. Rehearsals for cultural presentation after school on Wednesday June 9th and Thursday June 10th
About Me
- O.Kimeru
- M.A. 1992 from U. of Chicago; Japan Foundation Fellow in 1987-88; research fellow Yokohama City University; Japanese language teacher since 1991; also taught French (member American Association of Teachers of French), English as a Second Language (to students), methodology of teaching ESL (to Japanese high school teachers), English, Japanese history/culture, drama; in 2002 and 2004, listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers; member of Chicago Sister Cities Osaka Committee, and chair of its Education Sub-Committee; vice-president Illinois Association of Teachers of Japanese; Payton H.S. World Language Department Chair from 2003-2007, under founding principal Mrs. Gail Ward; taught Japanese and coordinated Japan Exchange at Payton from 2003 to 2010; Japanese teacher at Burr Public School beginning August, 2010