2015 Local Summer Course Offering for teachers:
EDU 5060 Whaling, Japanese Culture and the Whitfield
/Manjiro Story Part 1
Monday-Thursday August 10,11,12,13 2015 8:30-4:00
30 PDP’s (37.5 PDP’s with project) $275 (or 3 credits/67.5 PDP’s from Cambridge
College, additional cost is $150*) Participants will engage in hands-on activities
based on the math, science, social studies, and language arts Massachusetts Pre-K12 frameworks. Activities include: the history of Captain Whitfield and John Manjiro
with regard to Fairhaven’s whaling days; Japanese culture including language, art,
music, cuisine; ELA, science, geography and math related to whaling; a tour of
Captain Whitfield’s house, the Whaling Museum and the Manjiro Trail. Each
participant will receive 5 complimentary books; Japanese Traditions, Rice Cakes,
Cherry Blossoms and Matsuri, A Year of Seasonal Japanese Festivities by Setsu
Broderick; Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus; Shipwrecked, The True Adventures of
a Japanese Boy by Rhada Blumberg; Essential Japanese Grammar by Everett Bleiler;
Kamishibai Man by Allen Say. Recommended readings: Manjiro: The Boy Who
Risked His Life for Two Countries by Emily Arnold McCully; and Drifting Toward the
Southeast by John Manjiro which is available for purchase the first day of class.
Participants will also receive reproductions of primary source documents. Teachers
will create Japanese cuisine for their lunch each day in lieu of bringing their lunch.
Class is limited to 10 participants and will be held at 11 Cherry St. Fairhaven, MA,
the site of the Whitfield Manjiro Friendship Museum.
Instructors: Debra H. Almeida, EdD tel. (508) 997-7923; Ayako Rooney, Japanese
language teacher and cultural advisor; Gerry Rooney, President and CEO; (508) 8585303
*Project for graduate credit is due 4 weeks after the last class.
Checks for the initial non-refundable fee of $275 are payable to “WMFS” and can be
mailed or dropped off to:
WMFS, 11 Cherry St., Fairhaven, MA 02719
Registration closes for the course July 1st.
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Enclosed is $275 to:
“WMFS”
note: teachers’ course
WMFS, 11 Cherry St. Fairhaven, MA 02719