Second Year Japanese Honors

Course Format:

Welcome to Mt. Eden High School’s Japanese Honor’s Program!

There are four parts to the Honor's curriculum: 

1) Regular day Japanese journals (M, T, F) 

2) Adventures In Japanese assignments

3) Reading Time or 「読書時間」＝「どくしょじかん」

4) SLA or Second Language Acquisition

Part 1:  Japanese III and Japanese IV Honors students will have the following schedule on regular days: 

Monday, Tuesday, and Friday:  all classes and levels do the same activities including stories (CI Input). You will sit with all of the other students in the class out in the chairs and not in your group at the back table.  You can sit with your group at the back table on the block day after we break up into groups. 

The only day kanji sheets will be done in class is on the block day.  

Part 2:  Honors students will work on the regular class levels, Japanese III or Japanese IV, textbook activities from Adventures in Japanese Volume 2 and Volume 3 during their block day.  

You will receive a handout with the activities required for each textbook lesson.  You will have writing activities and speaking activities. 

Part 3:  In addition to the Adventures In Japanese textbook activities、 you will have a "Reading Time"  or 「読書時間」＝「どくしょじかん」.

During the  「読書時間」, each period of Honor's students will choose a set of Japanese textbooks to use during the year.  Each two week period, your group will have specific tasks to complete based on each chapter of the chosen Japanese set of textbooks your group has picked.  The only class time you will have is on your block day.  Regular days are spent with the entire class on the same set of in-class activities.   You will not be doing Honor's work on these days unless it is outside of class.

Part 4:  SLA or Second Language Acquisition is the study of how we best acquire language.  We will explore the hows and whys of acquiring a language versus learning a language.  Honors students will explore a number of topics related to this process and present them to their underclassman.