Critical Content

Japanese Writing Systems and Pronunciation

Copernimester 1

• Self- Introduction- how to introduce your self
• Greetings- how to greet others at different times of the day
• Classroom Expressions- how to express to start and end classroom in Japanese
• Weather Expressions- how to express weather conditions in Japanese
• Counting- how to count in Japanese and write counting in Kanji
• How to express agreement and disagreement
• Japanese Culture- research on Japanese geography and population and compare with the U.S.

Copernimester 2

• Classroom Japanese- how to identify and respond to Japanese classroom
• Teacher's directions- understand and follow the directions from your teacher in class
• The time and days of the week - how to read the time of the day and and days of the week
• Japanese culture: study Japanese Holidays and Festivals
• Introduce Family- how to identify and introduce your family members in details e.g. number of people, age, job, nationality
• Introduce a friend- how to describe your friend e.g.name,age, grade, school

Copernimester 3

• Simple sentence patterns - how to construct non-past and past affirmative, negative, and question sentences
• Japanese culture - Research on the differences of Japanese family gender roles and responsibilities between past and today.
• World languages – discuss what language you and your family speak
• Basic grammatical rules - identify daily usage action verbs, functions of particles, adverbs, and sentence conjunctions in sentences
• Describe Daily life - How to discuss daily activities
• Japanese culture – Research and discussion on “ Typical Japanese High School Student’s School Day”