Prepare a short (1-2 mins) presentation about the topic assigned to you from chapter 3 of the textbook. Use maps, photos, illustrations, etc. Use the textbook information but also find something new that is not in the textbook.
Answer the questions about the movie “Far and Away”
Why does Joseph want to kill the landlord Mr Christie?
Is he justified?
Presentation topics
Robert de Niro and Woody Allen
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island – how are they connected? (1 bridge, 1 tunnel, 1 ferry)
Manhattan – Wall Street, Twin Towers, Ground Zero
Chinatown
Lower East Side
Little Italy
Garment District
Greenwich Village
Edith Wharton
Henry James
Mark Twain
Edgar Allen Poe
Harlem
Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx
If you were absent today, please choose from these topics in the textbook:
Central Park
Rockefeller Center
Times Square
Broadway
Lincoln Center
Madison Square Garden
Fifth Avenue & Upper Midtown
Empire State Building
Famous New York food
Today’s class
Cause and effect.
Why did Joseph’s father die?
Why did large stones and timbers fall?
Why did the horses hit the timbers?
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Using your notes from today’s presentation on “Oliver Twist” and “Elizabeth the Golden Age”, write a short paragraph for each presentation . You may need to do a little research before you write.
Choose another book from the Easy Reading list, borrow it from the library and start reading. (Download the list here: AS1_Easy_reading_library_list
Read the textbook chapter 2, pages 16-19 for a quiz next week.
Prepare your presentation.
Today’s class
Presentations about “Oliver Twist” and “Elizabeth the Golden Age”.
Quiz on the Tudor Period (p. 23-4).
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Next week’s presentations by Ms. Tanaka H. , Sonoda, Pee and Otome.
Easy reading: read an easy reading book from the “Easy Reading” section of the library.
Record the details on your “ Reading List”. Include the following items:
Title, author, level, genre, comment
Chapter 15
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Short Asnwer questions.
Short Essay Questions (chapter 14)
Today’s class
Presentations by
Ms. Tanaka F.– on comparing Victorian London with Charn and the Wood Between the Worlds
Ms. Sodai – on comparing Digory’s house at the beginning and end of the story.
Christian principles are absolute; not relative, and not “case by case”. However, there is the possibility of forgiveness while one is alive.
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Handout: Check the meaning of the quotes by Hamilton and Brutus about the BIll of Rights, and write your opinion. Download the handout here: Why the Bill of Rights
Ms. Irie S., Ms. Ishida, Ms. Aoeda and Ms. Izumi, please prepare your presentation sfor next week.
Presentation topics:
This semester, you can freely choose any topic of U.S. history that you like.
I suggest you choose a person or a group of people as the main point of your presentation.
In addition, you may choose any topic in the textbook, any U.S.A. history-related book that you have read, or any movie from the movie list that you have seen.
Read an easy reading book about US history. Note the title, author, level, period of history.
Keep your list on one sheet of paper.
Find one of the movies on the movie list. Watch the movie.
Today’s class
Presentations by:
Egami – Slavery
Honjo – the movie “Glory”
Irie M. – Thanksgiving
The Bill of Rights.
Rights 7-10.
Federalism – a small central government and a federation of states: the united states (not United States).
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Read chapter 6 and write a summary of it in English.
Today’s class
Presentations:
Romeo and Juliet – Matsumoto
Gulliver’s Travels – Nishiyama
TMN chapter 5 – Nomura.
Next week’s presentations:
TMN chapter 6
The Railway Children
Jane Eyre
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Prepare your presentation. Review these pages in the textbook for next week’s presentations:
Christianity pp. 13-4
The Vikings p. 15-6
1066 pp 16-17
Book of Kells p. 19
Today’s class:
Presentations by
Bando E. – the Celts
Saga – Neolithic people and Stonehenge
Honjo – Anglo-Saxon raiders
Nakagawa – Anglo-Saxon government and society.
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What kind of sounds are difficult for Japanese speakers to make?
Bilabials, dentals, dental-labials, some alveolar sounds like ‘r’ and ‘l’.
What kind of sounds are difficult for a ventriloquist to make?
Bilabials, dental-labials.
What are the characteristics of Cockney accent?
Dropped ‘H’, glottal stop instead of double T, ‘th’ (voiced) becomes ‘d’ or ‘v’, ‘th’ (unvoiced) becomes ‘f’, vowels deepened and broadened.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjGNJ5JL8w
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9UAbxNlWg
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Model answers to the short essay questions for chapter 5.
Watched the beginning of the movie “Shadowlands”.
httpv://youtu.be/tzSb-PHEMOc
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Look at these pictures. Do you like them? Have you seen any of them before? How do you feel about them? Write your response.
“The Great Experiment”. What does that mean?
Watch these scenes and answer the questions:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjqe6cmvzPY
Howard Roark is ….
Peter Keating is …
Henry Cameron is …
Why is Roark expelled?
Who tells Roark to compromise? Does he?
Why does Roark refuse Keating’s help and money?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i6tr2foVtQ
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What did you think of today’s class? Is it useful for you to hear me read the text? What about the chapter summaries? Let me know your opinions in the comments or send me a private email.
I plan to have more discussions in the 2nd semester. This semester, we are focusing on understanding the story.
Answer the multiple-choice questions for chapter 7
Write a (short) summary of chapter 6 – about half a page of B5 will be enough. Key points of the action only.
Presenters, prepare your presentation for next week (chapter 7)
Today’s class:
Presentations on the vocabulary and meaning of chapter 6.
a “cab” is short for cabriolet and is the name of a horse-drawn carriage used as a taxi in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Later, when horses were replaced by cars, the name “cab” was kept and is still used today to refer to a taxi. A taxi-driver is called a “cabby”, as was the driver of the horse-drawn carriages.
Here’s a picture of a cabriolet from Wikipedia
Here’s a photo (1877!) of a hansom cab, also used as a “taxi”:
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