JPN 201 Intermediate Japanese I
Fall 2018
Course Calendar
Revised 11/12/2018
This semester you will learn about Japanese
geography, regional products for souvenirs, weather & climates of different
regions, annual events, and more. I hope you will find where and when you
want to visit Japan in the future. We will review and strengthen your reading
and writing skills. Later of the semester, you will have a chance to correspond
with Japanese students in Japan. So let's get
ready for it!
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* Assignment Submission Requirements: 2.Wednesday (typed written assignments): The assignments are explained at the Grammar sections of each chapter. The first draft of the assignment (double spaced, saved with assignment title and your name (E.g. Self-intro Smith or 1-1 A-F Smith") typed in MS Word) must be posted for your team member to give you a feedback by Tue. and give feedback to your team mate before12:00 p.m. (at noon) on Wednesday of the week unless other options are specified in the course calendar below. 3. Friday (hand-written assignments): After reviewing and reflecting all the corrections and feedback from the instructor and the teammate on your first Wed. submission, the revised assignment must be hand-written and turned in as a final version of the assignment before12:00 p.m. (at noon) on Friday of the week to receive credits. The hand written version should be also double-spaced with your name, assignment title, and date on each paper. The hand-written version can be also turned in by fax (World Language Department fax # 910-962-7712 at UNCW. Please remember to write my name (Yoko Kano) on your assignment to show to whom your assignment should be sent.) , in-person, leaving it at the department mail box or the folders on my office door or the door in the hallway close to the Exit sign, or creating One PDF file (combine all the pages into one file please) and send it as UNCW e-mail attachment (No digital photo image of the assignment is accepted (I use "Genius Scan" app to take photo with smart phone, and it converts the image to PDF and mail it to your e-mail but UNCW e-mail may not accept it so send it to gmail or other e-mail and then forward it to your UNCW e-mail.). Make sure you write your name on every pages and page number. The grades for the assignments will be given to the final version each week. In another words, the grade for the week's assignment is kept as "zero" until the final hand-written version is turned in. The late submission will result in losing ten points off (per working day) from the final grade of the week's assignment. The grade of the week remains zero until the final handwriting versions (which are to be submitted on Fridays) are submitted. Only the grades given to the final hand-writing version will be recorded. In other words, you can improve your grade by making corrections and revising the typed assignments (the grades may be given to the typed assignments) are temporal for you to understand where your grades stand as a reference. After you finish all the submissions, please start learning the Grammar/Structure and practice reading the Key Sentences of the following week to get ready for the coming class. Click here to see the grading criteria and codes on the writings. |
All the turned-in
assignment must be collected (and printed out if they are typed) and organized
in a binder to be able to show or turn in whenever the instructor requests.
Content of the course, test, quizzes as you see below
are subject to change as the course progresses. The course announcement
or changes will be sent out to your UNCW e-mail
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Week |
Topics & Grammar/Structures/ |
Assignments
of that week |
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Week1 |
Technical
requirement, Review
(especially writing in Hiragana, Katakana, & Kanji) |
Bring the kanji and the grammar
dictionary books to class without fail. Learn how to use them as well
as resources on the web site. |
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Week
2 |
Self-Introduction Review
(especially writing in Hiragana, Katakana, & Kanji) Please start working on Chapter 1-1 under Lessons/Chapters |
Aug. 29 (Wed.):Turn in self-introduction (typed)
by Wed. noon and
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Week
3 |
Chapter
1-1 Indicating
locations: ...は ... にあります。 |
Sept. 4 (Tue.) Study and grammar of this week (practice with the video in red highlights). Turn in your recording of Chapter 1-1 by Tue. noon. Record all the sentences in yellow box on the first web page of the chapter above all the other links to vocabulary, kanji, grammar, etc.) Use the Vocabulary Glossary of the key sentences right under the key sentence box to help you read unfamiliar kanji. There is a link to listen to my recording of the key sentences right above the yellow key sentence box as well. Sept.
5 (Wed.): Assignment 1-1 A through F (and the extra point assignment if you
would like) by Wed. noon. and
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Week
4 |
Chapter
1-2 Expressing
desire: ... が欲しいです; ... ーさんは、...を欲しがっています: ... たいです; ... ーさんは、...たがっています |
Sept. 10 (Mon.): Study the grammar of
this week "Desire" (study and practice with the video in red
highlights). Turn in your recording of Chapter 1-2 by Mon. noon.
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Week
5 |
Chapter
1-2 & 1-3
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Sept. 17 (Mon.):
Study the grammar of this week "Tentative plan, Plain forms of verbs,
and Experiences" (study and practice with the video in red highlights).Turn
in your recording of Chapter 1-3 by Mon. 12:00 p.m. Start
learning/memorizing the Past Plain forms of verbs with
video practices.
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Week
6 |
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Week
7 |
Chapter 1-3 (continued) If - then statement ...たら
conditional Connecting verbs: -て form of verbs |
Recordings of chapter 1-3 and Chapter 1-4 are
cancelled.
Here are the new group members. Please continue working (practice speaking and memorizing
vocabulary) on the video practice (red highlights) of the following: Expressing desire Start working on …たり、…たり +します http://people.uncw.edu/kanoy/practices/tariTariSuru.htm
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Week
8 |
Chapter 1-4
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Up until Oct. 8 (Mon.) Study/review the grammar (study and
practice with the video in red highlights):
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Week
9 |
Review
Chapter 1-1 through 1-4
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Oct. 15 (Mon.): by Monday noon. -
Bring the Final
hand-written version Assignment 1-4 C&D to class. |
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Week
10
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Comparatives
& Superlatives |
Are
you coming up with 50 questions (due on Nov. 5 at noon) to interview Japanese natives? Please see "Interview and writing assignments” at the bottom
for more details. Please arrange the interview dates with natives
upon my approval of your questions. . Refer
to the Week 16 below about the interveiw.
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Week
11 |
Connecting
Adjectives: -て form of adjectives |
Are you coming up with 50 questions (due
on Nov. 5 at noon) to interview Japanese natives?
Please see "Interview and writing
assignments” at the bottom for more details. Please arrange the
interview dates with natives upon my approval of your questions. . Refer
to the the Interveiw
Assignment at the bottom. Oct. 29 (Mon.): Study the grammar of this week (study and practice with the video in red
highlights). Turn in your recording of Chapter 1-6 to Kano-sensei by Mon. noon |
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Week
12 |
Change
of state, To become... ... なります。 |
Are you coming up with 50 questions (due
on Nov. 5 at noon) to interview Japanese natives? Please see "Interview and writing assignments” at the bottom
for more details. Please arrange the interview dates with natives
upon my approval of your questions. Refer to
the the Interveiw
Assignment at the bottom. Nov. 5 (Mon.) Interview questions due at noon. Study the grammar of this week (study
and practice with the video in red highlights). No Recording assignment this
Monday. |
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Week
13 |
Review Chapter 1-1 |
Did you complete the questions (get approval from me)? Have you set the date and time to do the
interviews with your Japanese natives? Try to complete the interview this
week. Do not wait until Thanksgiving to complete it since your partner may
cancel the meeting in the last minutes. Refer to the Interview Assignment at the bottom. No recording assignment this Monday but prepare the
Chapter 1-6 Review Step 1&2 translation/grammar assignments due on Tue. |
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Week
14 |
Review
Chapter 1-1 through 1-6 Review
Chapter 1-6 Step 3 |
Nov. 20 (Tue.):
Take kanji chapter
5 & 6 quizzes
Nov. 22 (Thu.): No class on Thu. Happy Thanksgiving! |
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Week 15 |
Test
Week Interview 1 Due on Nov.
27 |
Submit the recording of Interview 1 (10% of your final grade) with the hand-written summary. |
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Week 16 |
Review |
Dec.
4 (Tue.) Going over the test to review.
Discussion on the final
assignment (the take-home exam). |
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One of our
goal! 10-15 min. |
Two Interviews (completely in Japanese) and the summary in Japanese (face-to-face interview on campus or via videoconference such as Skype and Line) : You will interview two people in Japanese and write about them. The first interview and its summary, "Interview 1 (due Nov. 27)" is an assignments (10% of your grade) for you to practice for the take-home final exam. Turn in a hand-written summary only, showing how many characters with the self-checked grammar list (link from the grading criteria) . Be sure to refer to the grading criteria and go over and write check marks in the Grammar list before you turn it in. Bring audio file (up to 15 min. each) and the typed Word file in a flash drive along with a hand written version to class. The second interview and its summary, "Interview 2 (Due Dec. 14)" (hand-written only) is graded as the take-home final exam. You are using the same Interview questions for both interviews but you can modify after the first interview if you like. You MUST NOT get any feedback on your writing of the Interview 2 from anyone since it is the take-home Final exam. Be sure to refer to the grading criteria and go over the Grammar list before you turn it in you do not need to turn in the grammar list this time. Please come to my office at Leutze Hall 253 between 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. on Dec. 14 (Fri.) to turn in the hand-written summary and the interview audio in your flash drive. I will download the audio to my computer and return your flash drive to you right then. Make sure to save your audio file with your last name. This one should be written by hand (no typed submission necessary but write how many characters on the paper) and copy the following at the end or beginning of the paper and sign and date the paper. "I, (your name in English) wrote this by myself without any help from anyone in this galaxy. " Click
here to fill out a survey You complete the survey to get grade for
the Interviews. Click here for Interview Tips (especially the useful phrases at the bottom of the page.) Be sure to include the topics and
grammar that we learned this semester. I am grading what you learned this semester.
Here are some topics. Again, refer to the grammar list in the grading criteria to check if you have used more than 90 % of newly learned grammar during this semester! Good luck and have fun! Suggestion to make your writing enjoyable for others to read. It is such a joy to see how far you came along and improved your
Japanese and that you enjoyed talking with your Japanese
natives. When I read the papers, it will be clear who enjoyed
talking with a Japanese and who were too nervous about completing the final
assignments. Some students are writing the Interview summary
mechanically, trying to include the grammar structures and topics while others
purely enjoyed the friendship with the Japanese people and wrote about them
with your empathy and thoughts about them. It is obvious
which case will help you write an enjoyable piece of writing. |
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It was great to work with y'all!!