- Students can read Hiragana, Katakana, and some Kanji in simple dialogues and/or short stories.
- Students can orally describe physical characteristics and personality about himself or herself and family members and friends.
- Students can conjugate simple action verbs and adjectives in non-past and past sentences patterns.
- Students can identify invitation and suggestion sentences patterns and be able to utilize them appropriately in conversation with others.
- Students can depict how their house and rooms a like by applying existence verbs with counters that are introduced for animate and inanimate objects.
- Students can grasp the main idea by listening assigned dialogues and be able to raise some questions and reply, and then to extend to other topics.
- Students can describe their school schedule and after school activities.
- Through culture search and studying, students are able to view significant culture difference in the U.S and Japan.
- Demonstrate an ability to engage productively with others in individual and group conversation, debate and group work .
- Demonstrate an ability to engage and follow through in all required and choice activities.
- Demonstrate an ability to produce creative solutions to some of the intractable problems in human society.
- Demonstrate an understanding of growth goals as outlined in the Blooms, Skills and 21st Century rubrics.
- Work diligently with intention to further develop in all growth goals.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of the enduring understandings and essential questions.
- Formulate informed answers to our essential questions. Express them in writing, discussion and other/other symbol systems