Chapter 4: Let’s Present Your School Reference

Unit 4: Environment
 Chapter 4: Let’s Present Your School

Reference

NATIONAL STANDARDS (5Cs)

Communication Cultures Connections Comparisons Communities

Interpersonal

  • Editorial meeting
  • Reading strategies
    • describing sentences
    • comment sentences

Interpretive

  • Editorial meetin

Presentational

  • Editorial meeting
  • Expository complex paragraph writing
    • Two topic sentences
    • Two block arguments
  • Kansoubun style writing
    • Describing parts
      • observation
      • explanation
      • comparison
    • Comment parts
      • direct comment sentence
      • indirect comment sentence
  • Booklet on my town for Japanese sister school audience

Practice

  • Town in Japan

Product

  • Town in Japan

Perspective

  • Comparing a town between Japan and your country
  • Social Studies (Japan)
  • Mathematics (One stroke order on map)

Language

  • Related languages topics

Pronunciation

  • Vowel quality

Kanji and kana

  • Recognition Kanji: 教室、宿題、 行事、卒業生、生徒数、活動、 科目、教員数
    目的、地図、図、写真、教材、 品詞、部屋、部長、生徒会、 的、生徒
    紹介、練習、3回、最初、最 後、家族、曲げる
    卒業式、試験期間、運動会、 文化祭、文科系、運動系、新 学期、制服、規則
    洋服、和服、上着、下着、着 る、付ける、着物、脱ぐ、靴、 靴下
    風が強い、雷雨、台風、気温、 涼しい、暖かい、方角、気持 ちがいい
  • Additional Kanji: 料理店、中心、感じ、地下鉄、郵便局、果物、授業、忙しい
    磨く、起きる、歯、洗う、頭、自転車、他に、主食、室内
    変わる、活動、興味、持つ、覚える、機械、専攻、交通、事故
  • a booklet describing my town

LINGUISTIC INFORMATION

Vocabulary Strategy Highlights Form Assessments

Notional

  • School words
    • location, surroundings
    • School types, students
    • campus, clubs, events
  • Outfits
  • Descriptive personal/ characteristic adjectives

Functional

  • Wearing verbs
  • Expressing permissions
  • Expressing several actions
  • Designating information expressions
  • Paraphrasing expressions
  • Descriptive expressions
  • Comment expressions
  • New Kanji: 楽、新、古、 多、少、広、安、高
    数、科、外、英、親、 朝、昼、半
    育、教、門、物、理、 歴、史、問
    正、低、明、暗、近、 長、短、早
    青、赤、白、黒、速、 美、遠、静
    心、知、好、思、同、 毎、意、味

Affective

  • Awareness
    • awareness of audience
    • awareness of culture on comment sentence
    • awareness of own observation skills when you want to describe something

Cognitive

  • Awareness
    • awareness of audience and writing style
    • awareness of culture in comment sentence and writing style
    • awareness of own observation skills when you want to describe something and writing style

Language

  • Writing strategies to make something easy to understand
    • paraphrasing
    • classifying
    • indicating resemblance
    • describing content
    • attribution
    • analogy

Grammar/Function

  • Expressing opinions
  • Reported speech
  • Language strategies
    • paraphrasing
    • classifying
    • indicating resemblance
    • describing content
    • attribution
    • analogy
  • Reading Strategies
    • descriptive sentences
    • comment sentences
  • Verbs past form
  • Potential Verbs
  • Expressing permission
  • Expressing prohibition
  • Indicating how easy or difficult something is to do
  • Indicating excess
  • Linking
  • Connectors
    • “and” connectors
    • “but” connectors
    • “cause and effective” connectors
    • “rhetorical” connectors
  • Conjunctional directional words
  • Structure of the Japanese paragraph
    • expository writing
    • essay style writing
  • Basic particles
  • Self-assessment
  • Peer-assessment
  • Sum-up
  • Video portfolio assessment

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