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Welcome to the class blog for Sheffner’s 2011 classes at DWC: Research in English and Writing Strategies. Please leave a comment. To protect your privacy, I suggest you do not use your full name, but only your family name or your given name. Your name will be visible. Your email address will not be visible. [...]
Makeup class announcement 補講のお知らせ
There will be a makeup class on Saturday, December 18th, 11 – 12:30. This is to make up for the class I missed on November 5th. We will not read “The Magician’s Nephew”, but we will study something about C.S. Lewis.
Writing Strategies II: Children’s Story Report
Book of Destiny Astrology Reports Originally uploaded by rnoel1 Children’s Story Reports. What should you write in your report? Here is my outline. Read it carefully. This will tell you how to write your report. Your report can be in either English or Japanese (English reports may get more points but they must be comprehensible). [...]
Writing Strategies II, Session #10: December 10th, 2010
Mountain Japanese maple (momiji), by Sheffner Today, we began working on the Study Guide questions for chapters 10-12. Students worked in pairs or small groups. In addition, I talked to some of you individually about your work. Homework: Continue reading your children’s story. Presentations and papers are due Friday December 24th. That will the last chance. I [...]
Writing Strategies II, Session #9: December 3rd, 2010
Update: Today, we continued reading chapters 8 and 9. Each student translated 1 or 2 paragraphs from the text. Homework: Please prepare the chapters 10, 11, 12. “Prepare” = read in English (and in Japanese if necessary to understand the meaning), look up words/expressions you do not know.
Children’s books list
Image via Wikipedia Here is a list of suggested readings. This list is not yet complete. It will grow over the next few weeks as I add more titles. Please feel free to add titles in the comments. Click on the titles to read more about the book on Amazon Japan, and click on the [...]
Writing Strategies II, Session #6: November 5th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia There was no class yesterday. 1 homework was to tell me the topic of your next week’s presentation by email. There are 22 students in this class. 13 students sent in their homework on time. 13 students can keep their promise. Well done. Those who did not keep their promise, please email [...]
Writing Strategies II, Session #5: October 29th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Today in class: There is no class next week, November 5th. There will be a makeup class in December, either 4th or 18th (Saturdays). Please tell me when you are and are not available on those two days. Next class will be November 12th. Update: Saturday Dec. 18th, 2nd period (11-12:30) was [...]
Writing Strategies II, Session #1: October 1st, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Update: I encourage you to read the Japanese translation of The Magician’s Nephew: 魔術師のおい―ナルニア国ものがたり〈6〉 (岩波少年文庫) Dear Writing Strategies students, October 1st was our first class. As most students had bought the textbook, we began reading the story. We read pages 1-4 We watched the first part of a movie about the love [...]
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