Project Reflection Document
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Student Name
Artina Daniels
Teacher(s)
Mrs. Orion
Grade
10th
Date
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Assignment Title
Soshite Chichi Ni Naru （そして父になる）
Priority Standards
PS 15
PS 5 CCSS
PS 13
Score (out of 4)
4
4
4
Habits of Mind and Practice (list all)
Critical Thinking
Urgency
Self-Advocacy
Student Reflection (Answer each question in complete sentences and in paragraph
form).
1. Why did you select this piece?
This project was to choose a character from the movie Soshite Chichi Ni Naru and describe
their facial features and personality. I also had to researched three cultural differences in the
movie and explain them. I chose this piece because it was one of the assignments that I enjoyed
doing in my Japanese class. I learned more about different aspects of the Japanese culture that I
didn’t understand before while at the same time learning the language. This task also had many
different parts to it that required me to practice applying my previous knowledge and
knowledge that I was still gaining.
2. What are the strengths of this work? What is one thing you can improve upon in this piece?
The strength of this work are the descriptions of cultural differences between America and Japan. I
had to find three differences in the movie and explain their origin and what the practice was. One of
the practices I saw in the movie was a woman throwing salt in front of her store. The reason she did
this was to keep evil spirits out of the store and their house.
3. What skills have you developed and/or improved as a result of completing this assignment?
The kills I have improved are using translators and expanding my Japanese vocabulary. When writing
about the character’s personality I had to translate English emotions into Japanese and to do that I had to
break down the sentence and translate individual words. In the process of doing this I learned different
types of adjectives used to describe people, like the word kawarimono （かわりもの）, which means
eccentric.
4. What did you learn from reviewing this piece?
I re-learned some of the vocabulary I translated and the sentence structure used to make a
statement. Just like in English, a question and a statement sentence are written differently. For
example, when describing the character I ended the sentence with “desu”, this is used to say that
something is or exists. If I were asking a question the sentence would end in “wa” because I am
unsure of the action of the topic.
5. Explain in detail how the Habits of Mind and Practice were present in the assignment.
Provide as much evidence as possible, beyond mere opinion, that you exhibited these habits.
Critical Thinking:
I used this habit in the cultural differences section of the assignment. This part of
the task was to find three cultural differences in the movie, between Japanese culture and
American culture. One of the differences I researched was why the Japanese have shrines in
their home. I researched multiple sources to understand why the Japanese did this and the
origin of the custom. I also used this habit to better my understanding that my culture is
different from the Japanese and I shouldn’t call their customs weird just because they are
different from mine.
Urgency:
This skill was utilized when I completed the assignment early. We only had a week
to work on the task, so I knew I had to finish is before the dead line but that wasn’t what
drove me to finish the assignment quickly. I enjoyed working on this project because I am
interested in the Japanese language and every part of this project increased my knowledge
of the language and culture. Because I enjoyed the task I finished it before the due date.
Self-Advocacy:
Self advocacy was used during this entire project. I am not fluent in Japanese or
am and expert in Japanese culture, so I found many things different and strange. I searched
and asked many questions about how to structure sentenced and which words would be
best fit in that sentence etc. And I researched the things that I thought were odd because
they weren’t the norm in America.