１２月９日のアクティビティー

きょうのアクティビティです。There are 5 activities. If you do not finish within class time please finish at home. Use your time effectively!

Today’s activities are all individual work.

1. Evaluation of the katakana literary works (25 minutes)

• Read the evaluation categories shown below.
• Click the form below and rate your classmates' work between the scale of 1-10.
• In addition, leave comments about their literary works on their blog. (Make sure to write at least one sentence in Japanese.)

ナズキアン先生のクラス → Click here
パク先生のクラス→Clich here
はまだ先生のクラス：

• サイモン・レイチェル・ソーユン・パトリック・ジェイミー・トーマス・ケント・レイラ・ダン→ Click here
• ティナ・ルイーズ・メン・ウック・ユンキュン・ソーヒー・ペンフェイ・リージュン → Click here

まつい先生のクラス→Click here
さとう先生のクラス：

• ケンディ、ジーン、ホミン、ロラン、ジリアン、アンジェラ、ジム、ジョナサン、メイリン→ Click here.
• ピーター、まや、セボム、ジン、ジョニ、アレックス、エド、アンドリュー、エド、アンドリュー、チェリー、リチャード→ Click here.

(Katakana Literary Work Evaluation Categories)

1. Emotiveness (Appeal to heart)
Capture the readers, appeals to the senses, inspire reaction
Thought provoking
Relatable to the reader

2. Delivering message (Message)
Eternal verities, providing lessons (underlying deeper messages), depth beyond the plot, has a point to it
Controversial/thought provoking content,
Star-crossed romance, sense of fantasy (mythos)

3. Aesthetic Factors (Beauty)
Aesthetically pleasing,
Follows a structure , style, formation of a style and consistency
Provokes image, songs, and etc, can picture in your head
Sounds beautiful, should flow, have rhythm, rhythmical

4. Creativity (Interest)
Unique, exciting, interesting, fun, not boring, wit, smart, funny, humorous, entertaining, well developed, not repetitive/ cliché, sparking new ideas and questions, original, imaginative, innovative, challenging societal conventions, question the typical standards

5. Consideration for Others (Ease of Reading)
Coherent, clear, thoughtful, an appropriate length
Easy to interpret and/or understand
Ability to reach wide audiences across ages and cultural backgrounds, potentially carry universal values
Vocabulary that takes into account the audience's level of understanding

6. Language (Relation to Language)
Use of language, meaning either a unique use of diction perhaps
Well crafted (i.e.- put thought/effort into it, strategic choice of words, etc.)
Wordplay, fun with language


Haiku & Senryu
Rhythms, rhymes, and catchy sounds
Correct form and style
Express an aspect of human nature (Senryu)
Express an aspect of the natural world (Haiku)

Story & Manga
1) Plot & Structure
Good, interesting, clear story line
Depth of character and plot
Beginning, middle, and end
2) Characters
Character development, characters that you can relate, memorable characters

2. Evaluation of the katakana project. (10 minutes)

• Click here and evaluate katakana project. Please write as much as possible so that we can improve the projects for students who will be studying Japanese at Columbia in the future.

3. Listen to your classmates’ compositions #3 and choose the one you think is best. (15 min.)

• Go to Audio Discussion, and listen to the 8 compositions listed below your own introduction. Choose the best introduction out of the 8.
• E-mail the name of the person who had the best composition #3 and the reason you chose the person to your instructor (Nazikian: fn2108@, Park: jp2194@, Hamada: hh2373@, Matsui: kml2168@, Sato: ss903@).

4. Course Evaluation (10 minutes)

• Go to the Courseworks, "first year Japanese," and then "Evaluation."
• Evaluate this Japanese class. Please write as much as possible so that we can improve our Japanese classes for students who will be studying Japanese at Columbia.

5. Think of questions for Jeopardy. (If you have extra time)