5/2 Japanese 3/AP B3

Watched Samurai 7 & Dragon Ball Z

Homework: AP students have the vocab quiz and Japanese 3 no homework

5/2 Japanese 2 B1

Watched Totoro

Homework: Oral test

4/30 Japanese 2 B1

Lesson

• Checked homework (worsheet 4-3)
• Reviewed BTe wa ikemasen & B1 + naide kudasai
• Five minute talking using Bte wa ikemasen "tabako wo suttemo iidesu ka?"
• Reviewed for oral test

Homework: Oral test

4/30 Japanese 2 B4

Lesson

• Checked homework (worsheet 4-3)
• Reviewed BTe wa ikemasen & B1 + naide kudasai
• Five minute talking using Bte wa ikemasen "tabako wo suttemo iidesu ka?"
• Reviewed for oral test

Homework: Oral test

4/30 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

• Reviewed Kanji together
• Kanji quiz
• Learned to give (kuremasu, sashiagemasu, agemasu and moraimasu)
• Translated some sentences from the board
• New grammar exercises
• Reading practice

Homework: Japanese AP Quiz P and Japanese 3 no homework

4/27 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• Checked homework (colors exercises)
• Reviewed colors
• Memorized colors together
• Corrected homework
• Vocab review sheet (first half)

Homework: Online quiz
http://www.quia.com/quiz/3674110.html

4/27 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

• Collected homework (20 facts on your final project)
• Reviewed colors P. 110
• Exercises reviewing colors
• Colors exercises
• Five minute talking only in nihongo
• Started vocab review sheet

Homework: http://www.quia.com/quiz/3674110.html
                    Finish colors exercises we started in class

4/27 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

• Collected homework
• Went to the math lab and the students worked on their final projected typing 20 facts about their topic and sent to me by email mbellini@alpinedistrict.org
• Went back to the classroom and watched Porco Rosso

Homework: Translate 4 sentences. Choose from the 20 facts you typed today in the computer lab. If you are presenting in a group, make sure each one in your group has 4 sentences each translated, NOT TOTAL.

4/26 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

• Give everyone's script back
• Reviewed Kanji
• Since everyone did their homework we watched samurai 7
• AP kids took the vocab N quiz
• Japanese 3 students worked on exercises about enka, movies, etc.
• Corrected exercises

Homework: Kanji quiz

4/26 Japanese 2 B4

Lesson

• Reviewed for the quiz
• Vocab quiz Unit 4
• Exercises reviewing BI+naide kudasai (Please don't)
• Reviewed for the oral test together

Homework: Exercises reviewing BI+naide kudasai & Bte wa ikemasen

Japan Matsuri Extra Credit

If you want to have fun and at the same time get 50 points of extra credit, go to Japan's Festival this Saturday.

http://nihonmatsuri.com/

If you go, make sure you take pictures and write a report about the booths you went and the performances you saw during the event. Make sure you have the pictures you took on the report.

4/26 Japanese 2 B1

Lesson

• Reviewed for the quiz
• Collected everyone's scripts typed
• Vocab quiz Unit 4
• Made copies of scripts and gave to everyone to practice their skits
• Exercises reviewing B1+naide kudasai

Homework: Exercises using B1+naide kudasai and Bte wa ikemasen

4/25 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• Check homework
• Five minute talking
• Reviewed adverbs and adjectives
• Corrected homework
• New grammar (colors)
• Went to play jyaken and daruma san ga koronda outside

Homework: Worksheet 5-5 on colors

4/25 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

• Check homework
• Since everyone did their homework, we watched one litter of tears
• Reviewed adverbs and adjectives
• Corrected homework
• New grammar (colors)

Homework: Please have 20 facts about your Final project's topic (You can include 4 sentences you translated to Japanese)

4/25 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

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• Checked homework (worksheet 5-4)
• Reviewed adverbs
• Five minute talking using adjectives and adverbs (jyouzu, totemo, maa maa, amari, zenzen)
• Corrected homework
• New grammar (P.110 Colors)
• Gave exercises on colors

Homework: Finish exercises

4/24 Japanese 2 B4

Lesson

• Check homework (Flashcards and script typed)
• Reviewed oral test flashcards in pairs
• Went outside and did white board game reviewing vocabulary
• Played jyanken game
• Played daruma san ga koronda
  
• Reviewed for the oral test together

Homework: Vocabulary quiz (Study your flashcards)

4/24 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

• Checked homework (15-20 sentences in English and Kanji exercises)
• Translated more sentences
• Reviewed Kanji
• Corrected Kanji exercises

Homework: Kanji flashcards and all sentences translated

4/24 Japanese 2 B1

Lesson

• Check homework (Flashcards and script typed)
• Reviewed oral test flashcards in pairs
• Went outside and did white board game reviewing vocabulary
• Played jyanken game
• Played daruma san ga koronda
  
• Reviewed for the oral test together

Homework: Vocabulary quiz (Study your flashcards) and type your Japanese script (I'll make copies and give to everyone in your group)

4/23 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• Checked homework (10 sentences in English about your Final project's topic)
• Reviewed Japanese sentence structure
  
• Translated sentences
  
• Reviewed totemo, maa maa, amari, zenzen (adverbs)
• Exercises

Homework: Finish exercises and those that didn't finish in class, bring your 4 sentences translated

4/23 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

• Follow up on online quiz (by Thursday)
  
• Checked homework (10 sentences in English about your Final project's topic)
• Reviewed sentence structure in Japanese
  
• Reviewed totemo, maa maa, amari, zenzen (adverbs)
• Exercises

Homework: Finish exercises at home and bring your 4 sentences translated to Japanese

4/23 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

• Follow up on online quiz
• 5 min talking どようび、なにをしましたか。（What did you do on Saturday?)
• Reviewed jyouzu, heta, nigate, tokui
• Finished exercises (reading part)
• White board game (Vocab review)
• New grammar zenzen, maa maa, totemo, amari
  

Homework: Exercises using new grammar

4/19 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• 5 minutes talking in Japanese きょう、あさごはんをたべましたか。なにをたべましたか。
• Reviewed jyouzu, heta, tokui and nigate
• Learned how to compare things using particle ga
• Exercises (Blue paper)
• Students got into groups to discuss about their final project

Homework: 10 sentences in English on your final project topic. 4 of them will be translated to Japanese during class.

4/19 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

• Asked if everyone could finish the quiz and if they had any question about it.
• Reviewed jyouzu, tokui, heta and nigate asking questions to each other
• New grammar totemo, amari, zenzen, maa maa
• Translate some sentences practicing new grammar
• Everyone got to their computers researching about their final project and created the draft in English

Homework: Finish final project draft at home. Write at least 10 sentences in English about the topic you will present. Out of 10 sentences, we'll start translating 4 in class to Japanese.

4/19 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

• 5 minutes speaking practice きょう、あさごはんをたべましたか。なにをたべましたか。
• Reviewed suki, kirai, sukuyanai, daisuki, daikirai
• Practiced those verbs asking and answering questions
• New grammar P.103 jyouzu, heta, tokui, nigate
• Practiced new vocab
• Exercises using new vocab

Homework: Go to the following website and finish the quiz. Make sure you type your full name. You can only take it once. Review the oral test flashcards before taking the quiz. It's worth 20 points.

http://www.quia.com/quiz/3657825.html

4/18 Japanese 2 B4

Lesson

Gave everyone's script back
Everyone translated their script

Homework: Bring your script typed in Japanese (romaji is fine) and bring your oral test flashcards done.

4/18 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

• Checked homework (Sentences in English)
• Translated the sentences
• Added some more sentences
• New Kanji
• Kanji exercises

Homework: Bring 15-20 sentences total for your final project and the kanji exercises finished

4/18 Japanese 2 B1

Lesson

• Checked homework (English script)
• Translated part of the script
• Review vocab with karuta game
• Gave oral test flashcards
  

Homework: Oral test flashcards

4/17 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• Reviewed verbs
• Speaking activity only in Japanese スプリング・ブレークになにをしましたか。
• Hiragana writing practice
• The students wrote sentences about what they did during spring break using the days of the week
• Learned how to type in Japanese and typed the sentences about Spring break

Homework: Go to the following website and take the quiz. This is a review of the oral questions. I would recommend you go over your flashcards before taking the quiz. It's worth 20 points and it should only be taken once. Make sure you type your full name before taking the quiz. It says optional, but it's mandatory for this class.

http://www.quia.com/quiz/3657825.html

4/17 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

• Taught everyone how to type in Japanese
• In pairs the students created sentences about their Spring break typing on the computer and sent it by email to me
• Reviewed previous grammar (jyouzu, tokui, heta and nigate)
• Reviewed the particle "ga" as emphasis and as but
• Corrected reading comprehension exercises 5-3
• Talked about how to contrast and compare in Japanese using "ga"
• Everyone wrote 3 sentences using particle ga

Homework: Go to the following website and take the quiz. This is a review of the oral questions. I would recommend you go over your flashcards before taking the quiz. It's worth 20 points and it should only be taken once. Make sure you type your full name before taking the quiz. It says optional, but it's mandatory for this class.

http://www.quia.com/quiz/3657825.html

4/17 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

• Reviewed verbs since we had a long break
• Speaking activity スプリング・ブレークになにをしましたか？using the verbs we reviewed
• Hiragana writing practice
• Japanese calligraphy with brush and rice paper

Homework: No homework

4/16 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

• Reviewed vocab for the quiz
• Vocab quiz
• Speaking activity 春休みに何か楽しいことをしましたか。
• Listening practice Hirai Ken (Hitomi wo tojite) http://pl.st/s/393415441
• Gave reading comprehension exercise

Homework: Write 5 sentences in English regarding your final project's topic (We'll be translating those sentences next class)

4/16 Japanese 2 B1 & B4

Lesson

• Checked homework (Vocab flashcards)
• Reviewed flashcards in pairs
• Listening practice (Utada Hikaru song)
• Everyone created their English script for the skit (Final project)

Homework: Finish English script

4/6 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

Oral test

Watched drama

http://www.dramacrazy.net/japanese-drama/1-litre-of-tears-episode-2/

Talked about final project

Topics chosen:

1. Turner san: Dance
2. Lisle san: Geisha
3. Clark san: Origami
4. Cook san: Anime Eureka 7
5. Ellis san & Mackay san: Nintendo
6. Harrison san: Japanese baseball
7. Hirsch san & Parker san: Anime
8. Howard san & Narayan san: Mochi
9. Jackman san: Japanese drama
10. Isaacson san: ?
11. McMillan san: ?
12. Tischner san: ?
13. Ottesen san: ?
14. Reynolds san: ?

Have a good Spring Break, no homework!!!

4/6 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

First half of the class was only with PGHS and LHS

They learned how to type in Japanese

Oral test

Watched the drama one litter of tears

http://www.dramacrazy.net/japanese-drama/1-litre-of-tears-episode-2/

Everyone chose their topics for Final presentation (In English with 4 sentences in Japanese)

Topics chosen

1. Busby san: Pro wrestling
2. Roth san: Japanese video games (Square Enix)
3. Crandall san: J-Pop music
4. Jensen san: Japanese food
5. Melamed san: Anime
6. Patten san: Japanese fashion
7. Seegmiller san: Japanese architecture
8. Proctor san: ?
9. Croxford san: ?
10. Alyn san: ?
11. Bown san & Haley san: Gozilla
12. Anderson san: Manga
13. Parratt san: Japanese temples
14. Boshard san: Music instruments
15. Liebelt san: Deserts
16. Arnerich san: Samurai
17. Edwards san: Japanese warriors
18. Hampton san: Ninja
19. Gibson san: Sushu
20. Stay san: Swords
21. Hunsaker san: Katana swords
22. Shular san: Japanese flag

Have a good Spring break, no homework!!!!

4/6 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

Oral test

Watched movie (kiki's delivery service)

Have a good Spring break, no homework!!!!

Japanese 3/AP students Presentation topic

1. Billy: Dragon Ball Z
2. Miyo: Japanese music
3. Anne: Japanese food
4. Johnny, Peter, Chris: Japanese bathrooms
5. Alex: Japanese scary stories
6. Jessica: Japanese clothing
7. Jon, Colton, Nathan: Gozilla

4/5 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

• AP students took Vocab Quiz K Part III
• Checked homework (Base tara exercises)
• Reviewed pink paper vocabulary writing one paragraph using 5 words
• Peer review
• Talked about some common mistakes
• Talked about final project (Powerpoint Presentation on a Japanese culture topic using only Nihongo)
• Researched using computers

Homework: Vocab Quiz (Study the pink paper)

4/5 Japanese 2 B1 & B4

Lesson

• Checked homework ( questions & answers from P.134)
• Corrected questions
• Talked about final project
• Gave 10 minutes to everyone to start brainstorming about their skit

Homework: Flashcards from vocab list

4/4 Japanese 1 A1

Class at computer lab

• Learned how to type in Japanese
• Typed 5 sentences in Japanese about hobbies
• Practiced Hiragana & Katakana online

1) genkienglish.net/genkijapan/hiragana1.htm
2)www.manythings.org/japanese/kana

• Researched topics for the Final presentation

The topics chosen are:

1. Technology - Easton
2. Japanese food- Riley
3. Karate - Leyba, Blakeley
4. Japanese candies - Eastwood, Kitchen, Versteeg
5. Okami game - Ingram
6. Cherry Blossom - Lytle
7. Kingdom of hearts game - Andersen
8. Japanese festivals - Anderson
9. Shiba inu - Banks
10. Mixed Martial arts - Mora, Madrigal
11. Origami - Jensen
12. Calligraphy - Ramos
13. The Legend of Zelda game - York
14. Japanese weapons - Newman, Shupe
15. Yakuza - Miller, Daly, Carson, Parry, Gurney
16. Kamikaze - Taylor
17. Samurai - Roberts
18. Ninja - Hunt
    

4/3 Japanese 2, 3 and AP

Watched movies with the sub.

Japanese 2 homework: Answer the oral test questions
Japanese 3 homework: Finish Base tara exercises
Japanese AP homework: Vocabulary Quiz k Part III

Japanese 2 oral questions scanned for those that does not Japanese characters in your PC

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