Sayonara
Precious Nuts Originally uploaded by Ben909 To all the students of Research in English ID / IID and Interactive Writing I/II, farewell. I enjoyed teaching you, and I learned a lot. Best wishes in all things.
Interactive Writing II Session #14: January 15th, 2010
Cover of Little Plum Today is the last class before the final exam (next Friday, Jan. 22nd). Hand in your re-written report comparing “Little Plum” with a representative, Japanese children’s story. Complete the “Little Plum” quiz. Hand in any other outstanding assignments.
Interactive Writing II Session #13: January 8th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Important announcement: the makeup class on January 19th has been canceled. Instead there will be class as usual on Friday, January 15th. Returned reports (“Comparison between ‘Little Plum‘ and (your chosen Japanese story)“ What does “compare” mean? Compare – requires an answer that sets items side by side and shows their similarities [...]
Important announcement – Cancelled class canceled
Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you had a relaxing, refreshing and peaceful New Year. Last class, I told you that I was canceling the January 15th class to attend a workshop.However, that workshop has been canceled, therefore there WILL be class on Friday January 15th. The makeup classes will be canceled.
Interactive Writing II Session #12: December 18th, 2009
Cover of Little Plum Report #1: comparing Little Plum with a Japanese children’s story (500 words). Please introduce your report to the rest of the class, in English and Japanese. If you did not give me your report today, please email it to me as soon as possible. Afterwards we listened to a well-known winter [...]
Interactive Writing II Session #11: December 11th, 2009
Today, we continued reading Little Plum. We read chapter 4. Homework: Your report comparing Little Plum with a Japanese children’s story. For December 18th.
Interactive Writing Makeup session 1: Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
This class was to make up for session #7, Nov. 6th, which I had to cancel because I was busy with entrance exams at my home university. We talked about the book “Little Plum”, for example: What is this story called? Who are the main characters? When does it take place? Where does it take [...]
Interactive Writing II Session #10: December 4th, 2009
Assigned 1 paragraph of chapter 4 per student to translate into Japanese. Conferenced with each student to confirm outstanding assignments. When to do the make-up classes? I cancelled Nov. 6th class due to entrance exams at my home university. I will also cancel January 15th class in order to attend a conference. Official make-up days [...]
Interactive Writing II Session #9: November 27th, 2009
Mini-lecture on “Changing attitudes to children and the police in the U.K.” Write your notes in Japanese on your blog in 200 characters We read more of chapter 3 with individual students translating paragraphs. We read up to page the bottom of page 37. Homework: Write a summary of chapter 3 in Japanese in 200 [...]
Interactive Writing II Session #8: November 13th, 2009
Students translated paragraphs from chapter 3, from p. 24-32. Some questions to think about: Many young girls in England and Europe want to have a horse or pony. Did you want to have a pony when you were a little girl? Why does Mother feel sorry for Gem? Do you (feel sorry for Gem)? Homework: [...]
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