Unit 5

REFLECTING

Reflecting on what I can be as a language user and beyond

Unit 5 Reflecting

In this unit students will be identifying their short term and long term goals. It is best to choose a cultural artifact that also aligns with goal setting. These goals should be a bit realistic but should still allow room for the imagination,

There are three sets of short term and long term goals: Language User, Worker, and Person. The KCAI version is: Language User, Professional Artist, and Person.

In my KCAI Japanese version, the instructor reads from a children's book called Daruma-san No. Links are included to a recording of the book online.

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Unit 5 Reflecting Template

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Possible Selves Lesson 5 UPDATED

EXPLORE:

Cultural Artifact: Daruma
Kanji Micro-skills: 口 Mouth 耳 Ear 足 Leg 踊 Dance
Linguistic Awareness: Conjunctions
Linguistic Activity: Writing encouragement

Language Substitution: Activate your students to think about giving encouragement or how to state what you want to become. What talismans or cultural artifacts do you know of that are related to the one you used in Units 1, 2, and 3? Are there other songs, stories, or artifacts that can be used for setting your intentions on a goal?

CREATE:

Discovery: Students explore the use of daruma to set intensions including how writing of idioms and intensions can be stylized In English they evaluate their tree, identify short term and long terms goals, then write clear statements.

Apply: Students create their own daruma image, selecting the writing on the daruma to represent their goals they established.

Language Substitution: Adjust the language and career ambitions in the English survey to align with student population. Encourage all students, think deeply about their goals, aiming to be as specific as possible.

REFLECT:

In English, students write about how they hope to improve their language and artistic skills. Do any of their current limitations cause them anxiety that could impact their future? Students are encouraged to think about who they are at this moment in time. Their reflection should include ideas they wrote about in Unit 3's survey about their hopes, expectations and fears. The image at the end of this unit is of Amabie, a spirit said to help with plagues. Since covid-19 quarantine Amabie has been painted on many daruma moulds. Links to Amabie are provided if students with to pursue it further.

Language Substitution: Adjust the language and career ambitions in the English survey to align with student populationIf your students have a variety of career paths, you can change this to "preparing to enter the workforce"