Guests from Osaka and their homestay hosts went on the Exchange Field Trip today. Destinations were the Museum of Science and Industry, the University of Chicago (with a quick stop at Robie House), Millenium Park (especially Cloud Gate, a.k.a. The Bean), and Hancock Towers.
Students who remained behind continued to work on their Japanese, with the following directions left for the sub:
[Japanese 3 class does not meet on Block Two days.]
Period 5 A (first half of 3rd block) , room 110 – Japanese 1
Workbook pages 50 – 57, the last set of hiragana in the workbook, the hiragana for ra, ri, ru, re, ro, wa, and wo (they already learned n[g]) and review of all 46.
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Period 6 B (Second half of 3rd block), room 110 – Japanese 2
Classwork – Students should imagine a zoo with all the animals of the Asian zodiac,
Mouse, ox, wild boar, monkey, sheep, horse, rooster, tiger, dog, dragon, etc. They should write sentences in the continuative/progressive tense that we have been working on, saying what each animal IS DOING NOW. Each animal should also be described in a sentence (some sort of adjective expression). In other words, two sentences per animal – 24 sentences all together. Sentences should be double-spaced.
You can show them the following example – English translation and Japanese – there is of course no cat in the Asian zodiac.
The strange cat has small ears.
へんな ねこ は みみ が ちいさい です。
(Romanization:Henna neko wa mimi ga chiisai desu.)
The cat is drinking milk.
ねこ は ミルク を のんで います。
(Romanization: Neko wa MIRUKU [w]o nonde imasu.
This assignment should take up the whole class period. Students should finish it for homework and hand it in on Thursday.
Period 7 (4th block), room 110 – combined class Japanese 4 and AP Japanese
Students should write a journal entry in Japanese as if they were doing homestay and visiting our sister school in Osaka, the way the Osaka visitors are visiting us now. The journal entry should include information about host family, meals, transportation to school, classes visited, weather, descriptions of fellow students and Osaka teachers, etc. Journal entry should be at least 15 numbered sentences, double spaced. Use as many of the kanji as possible from chapters 1 and 2 of Nakama and vocabulary from chapters 1 and 2 of Nihon to no Deai. Students should hand this in to you at the end of the period.
