Japanese / ESL

09-10: Teaching Japanese -IV.

Konnichiwa to Eastview community!

This is my 6th year teaching at Eastview.

*When you need any assistance, please E-mail me or stop by my office.*

OFFICE : B-328

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Japanese I-IV Eastview High School

Teachers: Masumi Hori, Ann McCarthy

Expectations and Grading Policies

Welcome!

We are so glad you are taking Japanese this year. Please read through these policies carefully, sign the slip at the bottom of page two and return to your Japanese teacher.

GRADING SYSTEM

50% Quizzes (pop quizzes, announced quizzes, tests and projects). If you are absent on the day of a quiz, please try to make up the day you return.

25% Non-test work . This includes work assigned in class and homework. Makeup of missing oral or activity-type class work is an essay in Japanese. (50 words in J 1-2, 100 words in J 3-4) or a card in Japanese to an adult in the school, or a short summary and reaction to a news article involving Japan or Japanese.

25% Participation . Every student will start the quarter with 100 participation points. To keep your score at 100 do the following things:

1. Look engaged at all times. Keep distracting items in your backpacks (cell phones, games, other items of distraction)

• When asked a question in Japanese, answer in Japanese.
• Come to class every day.
• Be on time.

An INFRACTION occurs when you lose points. Each infraction is worth 5 points. You can makeup infractions. Here’s what to do:

• Make a card in Japanese for any teacher at Eastview H.S, (limit of two per quarter)
• Write an essay in Japanese. (50 words in J1-2, 100 words in J3-4). No limit.

HOMEWORK

Homework is given 2-4 times a week. In general, homework is 5 points per assignment. For full-credit, homework most be turned by Friday the week it is assigned. Late work will be given by partial credit as long as it is turned in before the end of the current unit.

ATTENDANCE

You are allowed one free absence per quarter without penalty (loss of participation points). For each absence after the free one, makeup is an essay in Japanese. (50 words J1-2, 100 words J3-4)

You are allowed two free tardies per quarter without penalty. After the two free tardies, makeup is an essay in Japanese, making a card in Japanese, or review of a news article.

Eastview High School ’s Attendance and Tardy Policy will be followed .

EXTRA HELP

Extra Help is always available with request. One or both of us are usually available after school. Do not get too far behind before asking for help! Come in after school with a friend. We hope to have upper-level students available for peer-tutoring at least once a week. しゅくだいパーテイー (homework parties are offered periodically)

MATERIALS

All students need a notebook, folder, pen or pencil, 50 index cards. These materials plus the textbook should be brought to class everyday. In addition students in Japanese III and Japanese IV should have a Japanese language dictionary and bring it to class everyday, (inexpensive ones are fine—Barnes and Nobles has several types available)

Japanese 3-4 students also will need a 3-prong folder for weekly journals. We will have some available for sale the first week of school.

09-10 Event

Mori-no-ike / Language and culture immersion camp: February

Concordia Language Villages

J-Club offered throughout the year

EVHS : Cultural heritage festival : TBD