Unit 7

PERFORMING

Performing - How am I doing?

Unit 7 Performing

This final unit is about performing. It is a great place to include philosophies on achieving your dreams or creating vision boards of being language users in the workplace. Consider sharing videos and speakers giving encouragement to attain one's dreams.

The KCAI version explores IKIGAI which is the Japanese idea of living your life's purpose. It includes a video by a comedian teaching students at a boy's reform school about kanji related to dreams and living a positive life.

The Japanese version explores writing an essay about what the student wants to be in the future. Look for authentic materials or graphic organizers that help native speakers write these kinds of essays. Consider how you can use these materials in your language class to write a similar essay.

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Unit 7 Performing Template

KCAI Sample & Adaption Suggestions

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EXPLORE:

Cultural Artifact: Ikigai- Living a purposeful life
Kanji Micro-skills: Living 生 Face 顔 Circle 輪 Grant 叶
Linguistic Awareness: Using the phrase to become ~Ni Natte / ~Ni Natte imasu / ~Ni Naritai desu.
Linguistic Activity: Writing an essay about what you want to be in the future using Genkoyoshi paper

Language Substitution: Activate your students to think about writing a journal in the style that is popular in your language choice. What talismans or cultural artifacts do you know of that are related to the one you used in Units 1- 6? Are there other songs, stories, or artifacts that can be used for living a purposeful life?

CREATE:

Discovery: Students watch a video about how to attain your dreams and purpose in life in Japanese.

Apply: Students create their own Ikigai diagram and can add more artistic qualities.

Language Substitution: Adjust the language and career ambitions in the English survey to align with student population. Encourage all students to write about their future goals and how to approach life as a language user, worker and person.

REFLECT:

In English, students imagine it is 10 years in the future. You are living your ideal life that you created in the ikigai diagram. Write a letter to who you are now. What is your life like 10 years from now? What is it like to be a proficient user of Japanese? What is it like to be a professional artist? What is your life like as a person? Do you have any advice you want to give yourself?

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"