日本語四 シラバス 2010年 秋学期
Japanese IV H Fall Semester, 2010 Syllabus
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日本語で話そう。SPEAK IN JAPANESE ALL THE TIME.
コンピューターを使おう。USE YOUR COMPUTER TO READ AND SEE/LISTEN TO
AUTHENTIC MATERIALS, AND DO YOUR ASSIGNMENT.
自分で直そう。BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACCURACY IN SPEAKING AND
WRITING. CORRECT YOUR MISTAKES BY YOURSELF.
クラスに「準備して」来よう。COME TO THE CLASS, PREPARED.
二つのプロジェクトをしよう。Complete two culture projects this semester.
日記を書こう。Every Monday, submit via e-mal your weekly JOURNAL under specific topics
given. A paragraph with more than 20 sentences minimum will be expected.
1. Daily Grade (Participation, Class Work, Assignment) (30%)
(1) Class participation in Japanese.
(2) Weekly Journal (due every Monday)
(3) Reading, vocabulary, and grammar study assignment
(4) Assigned class presentations (weekly)
(5) Assignment Packet (partially, to be assigned)
2. Quizzes (20%)
(1) Grammar, vocabulary, and kanji quizzes
(2) Listening and reading comprehension quizzes
3. Tests and Projects (50%)
(1) Chapter test (may consist of giving an oral presentation and/or writing a composition under
chapter topics discussed in class) and AP question practice
(2) Projects (Interview of a Japanese student, Culture presentation on assigned topics, etc.)
(3) Composition/short (fictional) story/poem assignment
(4) Speech Contest (within school – December)
(5) AP Kanji Kentei (Monthly)
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旅行 Traveling (Yokoso: Ch-1, Genki: L-15)
職業（しょくぎょう）Occupation (Yokoso: Ch-5, Genki: L-13)
もしも… If clause (Genki: L-14, 17)
自動詞(じどうし)と他動詞(たどうし) Intransitive & Transitive Verbs (Y:Ch-3, G: L-18)
受け身（うけみ） Passive Voice (Yokoso: Ch-5, Genki: L-16, 21)
使役（しえき）Causative Voice (Yokoso: Ch-4, Genki: L-22)
使役受身（しえきうけみ）Causative Passive (Yokoso: Ch-6, Genki: L-23)
詩（し）、短歌（たんか）、俳句（はいく）Poetry, Tanka, and Haiku
TUTORING & Extra Credit Tutorial/study sessions will be held upon request. Extra credit will be given to
the participation in speech contest, Japan Bowl, and Japanese Club cultural and academic events.
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Weekly Schedule for Japanese VI (Fall, 2010)
Objectives
Week#1
Topic#1
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Review Japanese 3
Get ready for Inage students’
Major Assignment, Project,
Test, Quiz
1. J-3 Review Test
2. Tourism related
Main Classroom Activities
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Pair work – review J-3
sentences
Traveling
visit
Talk about summer trips (trip
to Japan and other places)
4. Research and discuss tourism
in Japan.
5. Find out popular destinations
of Japanese tourists and the
reason why. Understand how
they like to travel and why.
1. Interacting with Inage students
and learn about Japanese
perspectives on tourism and
other topics.
2. Understand different
motivations of traveling
3. Find out other people’s
purposes, interests, issues
related to traveling
4. Understanding travel related
vocabulary and expressions
1. Review topic#1
2. T#2: Students describe various
jobs, state what they wish to be in
future and why, explain the
occupation of their parents,
relatives, close friends, etc.
3. Students understand the relation
between personality and job
aptitude, and use it to find out what
jobs they may have an aptitude
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Week#2
Topic#1
Week#3
Topic#1
Topic#2
Future
Jobs and
Job
Aptitude
Week#4
Topic#2
Continued from Week#3
Topic#2 Review
Topic#3
IF Story
1. Understand and use if clause in
describing students’ experience,
wishes, and conditions for future
activities
Week#5
Topic#3
Week#6
Topic#4
Transitive
and
Intransitive
Verbs
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vocabulary – quizzes
Kanji for topic 1 (kanji
notebook)
Journal#1 (on Summer
Vacation) Due 8/30
Interview Inage students
in class.
2.
Vocabulary quizzes
from Topic#1
Journal#2 (on Japanese
High School students)
Due 9/7+ kanji notebook
Presentation on the
results of travel survey
Inage students interview
composition (major
grade)
1.
Topic #1 Test, Topic#1
Assignment
Journal#3(a Japanese
city/sightseeing spot)
Due 9/14 +kanji
notebook
Personality vocabulary
quizzes
Job aptitude survey
(assignment)
Journal#4(Occupation of
your parent/relatives) 9/21
+kanji notebook
Topic#2 Test
1. Quizzes on sentence
patterns.
Continued from Week#4
2. Students are able to narrate a
short story (that they created),
correctly using if clauses.
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1. Students will understand the
difference between transitive and
intransitive verbs and describe the
state (of a scene) by correctly using
intransitive verbs.
1.Vocabulary practice and
quizzes of the verbs
2. Journal#6 (IF, WISHES,
REGRETS) Due 10/5 +kanji
notebook
3. Reading comprehension
quiz
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Journal#5 (Speech draft)
Due 9/28+kanji
notebook
Narration of their IF
manga story (test grade)
3.
Brainstorm interview
questions for Inage
students.
Brainstorm discussion
ideas and topics on
“tourism and Japan”
for discussion with
Inage students.
Activities with Inage
students in class
through games,
discussion, and survey
2. Activities focusing on
using new vocabulary
3. Reading and survey on
“Traveling”
4. Looking at travel
related statistics and
analyzing them.
1. Pair and group work on
personality related
vocabulary and expressions
2. Reading on job related
articles, discussing the
content in groups
3. Listening to jobpersonality descriptions
(listening comprehension)
1. Sentence pattern
exercises in pair work.
2. Reading Manga story of
if-clause and creating a
story on their own, using if
clauses
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Continue creating a
story for presentation
or storybook.
2. Game, group, pair
work to learn necessary
vocabulary
1.Group work, learning the
verbs
2. Read “Lost Diamond” in
groups
3. Describe the scenes –
pair work (using pictures
and photos)
4. Describe various objects
in the classroom using
transitive and intransitive
verbs (pair work)
Week#7
Topic#4
2. Students are able to use
transitive and intransitive verbs
correctly in the story.
Week#8
Catch up week, review of four
chapters, etc.
Review for Mid Term Exam
1. Students will understand the
Japanese passive voice in
cultural and social setting
2. They will be able to use
passive voice (#1) of neutral
situations, using correct
conjugation and other elements
of grammar
Week#9
Week#10
Topic#5
Passive
Voice
Week#11
Topic#5
3. They will understand passive
voice of negative connotation
(suffering passive).
Week#12
Topic#6
Causative
Voice
1. Students will understand the
concept of causative expressions
and use the correctly in story telling
or description of childhood events.
Week#13
Topic#6
Continued from Week#12
Focus on speech practice
Students will write a story
consisting of the description
of a crime scene (that they
draw) and witnesses’
accounts. (Test grade)
Journal#7+kanji notebook
Journal#8 (Extra) Due 10/12
+ kanji notebook
Mid Term Exam
1. Reading comprehension
quizzes on the passages
using passive voice (#1)
2. Journal #9 (Passive
sentences practice) Due
10/19 +kanji notebook
3. Speech writing/practice
begins (continued until
12/09)
1. Journal#10 (My Bad Day)
Due 10/26 +kanji notebook
2.Narration of “My Bad
Day” (oral presentation – test
grade)
1. Reading comprehension
of passages that include
causative sentences.
2. Quizzes on causative
voice and expressions.
3. Journal#11 (Causative
sentences practice) Due
11/3 +kanji notebook
Skit presentation (test grade)
Journal#12(Detailed
narration of the skit) 11/10
+kanji notebook
Week#14
Topic#7
Review Week
Week#15
Topic#7
Causative
Passive
Voice
1. Students will be able to
understand the concept of causative
passive and use it when describing
what they were made to do (when
they were young or in classroom)
despite their will.
Topic#5/6 Grammar Test
Complete the final draft of
the speech and continue with
the practice
Journal#13 (Extra) Due
11/17 +kanji notebook
1. Journal #14 (C-P practice
sentences) Due 11/20 +kanji
notebook
2. Oral presentation –
Subordinate’s (student’s or
child’s) account
Week#1617
Topic#8
Poetry,
Tanka, and
1. Students will read and appreciate
Japanese poems, tanka, and haiku.
2. They will understand the history
of tanka and haiku.
3. They will create a poem and
1. Speech Contest (Inhouse)
(major grade)
2. Interpreting chosen poems
in Japanese. (Interpretation
essay – major grade)
1.Practice using transitive
and intransitive verbs
2.Create a detective story
1. Pair, group exercise of
passive voice – making up
short sentences
2. Reading the passive
voice sentences in stories in
class.
3. Practice using suffering
passive in group or pair
work. Draw 4-6 column
pictures in preparation for
“My Worst Day” narration.
1.Practice using causative
voice in pair work.
2.Write or orally present
what parents and teachers
used to make them do when
they were very young.
3. Create a skit of a
company scene. Students
will play the roles of a boss
and subordinate, using
causative voice in their
lines. (Group work)
1. Group work on
causative-passive exercise
2. Reading and listening
3. Preparation for oral
presentation
1.Group work: reading
poems and tanka and
discussing their
interpretation in Japanese.
2.Creating a poem, tanka,
Haiku
tanka/haiku for poetry contest (in
spring semester)
Week#18
Review for the final exam
3. Creating a poem, tanka,
and haiku (major grade)
4. Journal#15 (Interpretation
of two tanka/haiku) Due
TBA, Kanji notebook
and haiku in groups in
preparation for individual
creation,