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Hi everyone,
After next week, we will have completed all the requirements for the IE3 Core course, so we'll be able to have a few different types of lessons. Book Report Review After speed discussion, we complete three activities to help you improve writing a book report. For our first activity, we reviewed MLA referencing and then you complete the referencing for your own book report. Next, we analyzed the structure of a sample book report answer. Remember that the most important point about writing a good essay answer is to have logical structure with reasons and examples to support your opinions. Finally, we looked at some expressions you can use for writing about your literary terms. You then had a chance to discuss the literary terms in your own book with your partners. Discussions: All group leaders did an excellent job in today's discussions. They were over 20 minutes each! This is because all groups have very strong conversational style. I was very happy to see more member to member interactions in the discussions. Great work! Homework: 1. Blog Comment #10 2. Discussion Preparation 3. Book Report #2
Blog Question #10: Compared to IE Core 2, do you think your discussion skills have improved? Why or why not? Which skills have been the most useful that you've learned this semester?
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It's only our second lesson, but it was just as busy as our first one. Just one more day, and you can all say TGIF! Do you remember that expression from class today? The Secret Garden and Literary Terms: After speed discussion, we had a quiz on chapters1-8 of The Secret Garden. Remember to finished read the rest of th story for next week. We will be using it in class for all of April. We also had a short activity that introduced literary terms. You will have to analyze each of these terms for your book reports. In today's class, we learned about (1) the protagonist; (2) the antagonist; (3) point of view; and (4) setting. Discussion Leading: Before we started our discussions, we went through the procedure for leading a discussion. We also looked at the criteria that I will use to evaluate your discussions each week. Group Discussions: You did a good job at giving your opinions and asking for the opinions of your other group members. However, remember these points to improve your discussions next week:
Journal: You exchanged journals with your writing partner. You will keep your partner's journal this week and write 3 pages in your partner's journal: a. one page of comments on your partner's writing b. two pages on this week's new topic Homework: 1. Discussion preparation (see schedule) 2. Journal entry #2: langauge learning experiences 3. Read Graded Reader (15+ pages) 4. The Secret Garden (ch. 8-15)
Blog Question #2: Choose one of the topics below. Give your opinion on the topic. Use an opinion giving expression, and give a reason and an example to support your opinion. Remember to start your opinion with an opinion expressions (e.g. In my opinion, ... / As I see it, ...) * the most annoying thing (In my opinion, the most annoying thing is ...) * the best Japanese food (As I see it, the best Japanese food is...) * learning languages (If you ask me, learning languages is ...) * living in Tokyo (I think living in Tokyo is...) * smart phones (In my opHi Yusa and Nobuko, I completely forgot about making the reservation at our Italian place, so when I tried ot make it today, the place was fully booked. I'm so sorry. I was wondering if you would like to try Spanish food. There's a place near Aogaku (either Shibuya or Omotesando station) that is really good. Ryoji and I go there every month. If that's ok, let me know. If not, I'll find another Italian place. So sorry again.inion, smart phones are...) * Write 8-10 sentences. * Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly. * Submit by Wednesday, April 22 by 6:00pm. FIELD TRIP: Please make sure to bring 2500円 next week for your ticket for our theater field trip. |
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