Our first school newsletter website
Lesson 05: Develop ideas and concepts for updates to Japanese class website
Submitted by Hiroko Nagai
Objectives:
Content:
Students will...
- examine the different types of Japanese school websites
- identify what changes will be made to improve their class website
Cultural:
Language: Content Obligatory
Students will...
- use the following vocabulary to examine school web pages:
新聞（newspaper)
3年３組 (3 grades/class 3)
討論（とうろん）(Discussion)- use the following phrase structure to express their thoughts in regard to school news:
とてもいいと思います。わかりやすいですから。
(I think it is very good because they are very easy to understand.)Language: Content Compatible
Students will...
- demonstrate comprehension of language used to give information about school news on website
- use language functions such as expressing cause/reason, expressing preference:
わかりやすいですから。(reason)
このページより、まえのページのほうがいいです。(preference/comparison)Learning Strategies / Social and Skills Development:
Students will...
- use metacognitive strategies: organizational planning, identifying the purpose of a language task, setting goals and objectives.
- use cognitive strategies: predict upcoming information by using visual clue elaboration of prior language knowledge; use of common knowledge
- work together with their classmates to evaluate possible changes to class website.
Time Frame:
1-2 50-55 minute class sessions
Materials Needed:
1) Overhead projector or chalkboard
2) Japanese-capable computer lab or projected computer screen and audio (for surfing of suggested sites)
Description of Assessment (Performance Project):
The students will discuss the various purposes of the newsletter on the web for the future issue. The students will visit different types of class newsletters on the web written in Japanese for Japanese students. The students will identify the audience and write a short summary of the page. This activity is designed to help the students become aware of the purpose of each website. It should be conducted in Japanese; some of the vocabulary and structures will need to be pre-taught.
1) Divide the class into groups, each of which will evaluate different websites.
2) Each group will assess the websites by filling out the worksheet. The worksheet will be used to report to the class as a whole on their findings.
3) As each group reports to the class, the rest of the class should make a list in their notebooks of the kinds of information or ideas we need for our web page.
Assessment:
1) Informal assessment occurs throughout the activities.
2) Constructed response (short answer: a couple of sentences)
References and Resources:
http://bunbun.or.jp/pdf/zissen_pdf0009/toukai_2gaki10.pdf (かべ新聞)
http://www.tbs.co.jp/g-sensei/tushin.html （新聞）
http://www.sanynet.ne.jp/~h-stk/gakkyu/2-2/jikoshoukai.htm (自己紹介：チャート)
http://www.sanynet.ne.jp/~h-stk/gakkyu/3-3/toppage.htm (自己紹介)
http://kyuushoku.cool.ne.jp/news.html （給食）
http://www.nara-wu.ac.jp/fusyo/gakyuu/horimotog/html/nakayosi.htm
（クラスでやったこと：白雪姫）
http://www.vol.cz/jschool/tyugakubu/index.htm （プラハ日本人学校）
http://www.tsukuba-ibk.ed.jp/~s-shimana-e/gakkyusyoukai.htm （小）
http://www.oklab.ed.jp/tokihiga/gakkyu.htm （小：大きい写真）
（クラスのふだんの活動）
http://www.kumanichi.co.jp/kodomo/bbs2/ ( ネットで討論)
http://www.kumanichi.co.jp/kodomo/bbs/ （ネットで討論）かきこみ
http://www.net-ibaraki.ne.jp/o-mura/6-2kurasu.htm （クラスの紹介）
http://www2e.biglobe.ne.jp/~minakawa/010914_mary.htm
Attachments:
NOTE: some attachments are in PDF form (get Acrobat Reader)Group Worksheet
Notetaking
Worksheet