Monday, January 26, 2009

• Due: categories sheet centering on Vocabularies 1, 2, 3
• Review of Vocabulary 3 that was completed last week & previous cultural items (geography, basic facts)
• Alphabet recitation: last chance
• Reminder: 2-3 students still have to take the Vocabulary 1, 2 from mid-January (this is the last day or a zero will be given)
• Culture 1: popular French names in the 1990s and early 2000s
• Culture 2: French foods easily found right here in Montgomery County
• Videoclips: more Beausoleil music/excerpt from our regular French I program showing francophones & basic expressions
• Homework: Louisiana Cajun terms
• Looking ahead: Vocabulary 4 in packet is due on Friday, January 30

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 changed to Friday, January 30 because of the snow & ice

• Due: Louisiana Cajun Vocabulary Sheet
• Numbers 0-12
• Videoclip from opening of French I text [introductions, la bise, Ça va]
• Review exercises with Vocabulary 3
• Reading quiz (in class)

Friday, January 30, 2009 changed to Tuesday, February 3

• Due: Vocabulary Assignment 4/discussion
• Louisiana Cajun foods
• U.S. Cities and states with French origins
• Go over vocabulary 1, 2, 3 review sheet
• Paris video (Rick Steeves)
• Study for Culture Quiz

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

• Paris video (Rick Steeves)
• Homework: study Louisiana, France, geography, and foods notes for a short quiz

Thursday, February 5, 2009

• Reading (12 points) & Culture (21) test
• Word game:  "Bingo" involving all 4 vocabularies
• Homework for Monday, 2/9: Paris packet (exercise on back page)

Monday, February 9, 2009

• Tests to be made up today in class: DiPalo, Lee, Manuccia
• Review for Wednesday's vocabulary test 
• Paris packet due
• Paris video 2 (Rick Steeves)
• Culture: French scientists; names
• Coming on Wednesday, 2/11: test on Vocabularies 3, 4 [note change due to too many announced absences for Friday, 2/13]

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

• Test (approx. 45 points): vocabularies 3, 4
• French foods
• Finish study of Paris - reading and correction of Paris packet exercises
• Practice: counting to 12
• Homework: Worksheet on our ethnic backgrounds

Friday, February 13, 2009

• Presentation on Ellis Island experience
• Inventory/Discussion of our own ethnic backgrounds
• Next class: Italian Unit begins
• No assigned homework for 2/18

Wednesday, February 17, 2009

• Italian sounds and basic expressions (greeting, name, health, hair)
• Alphabet
• Adjective inventory: personal description
• Film: Italians in America 1 (8 minutes)
• Homework for 2/20: Italian Packet 1 - definitions of 23 borrowed words

Thursday, February 19, 2009

• Practice with alphabet and expressions
• Numbers in Italian, 0-20
• Film: Italians in America 2
• Homework for 2/23: Italian foods and beverage to categorize with aid of an adult

Tuesday, February 24, 2009   Happy Mardi Gras!

• What's the weather? / Che tempo fa?
• Review of borrowed words  1 & basic expressions (name, health, age, hair color)
• Alphabet oral (13 points) - any student ready to recite
• More ways to greet people and express health
• Number practice using più (+) and meno (-): packet 2
• Italian foods (visual categorization): go over 2/19 homework
• Film: Italian Americans 3
• Homework for 2/25: number problems (packet 3) & alphabet oral (for all)

Thursday, February 26, 2009

• Opening questions:  Come ti chiami?  Come stai? Quanti anni hai?
• Alphabet oral (all remaining students)
• Math problems (packet 3)
• Film: Italian Americans 4
• Homework (Packet 3): math problems G H I

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

• Basic phrases practice
• Numbers oral 0-20
• Homework check on math problems
• Preparation for a small test next class
• PBS film: Italian American cooking (Dorinda Hafner)
• Homework: small test on packets 1, 2, 3

TEST OUTLINE

1. Alphabet sounds: be able to spell 4 words dictated in Italian  (4 points)
2. Matching: complete the statement begun in column 1 - exercise emphasizes greetings, name, hair, health, age, personal description, weather, math  (8-10 points)
3. Number recognition: identify with a numeral 0-20  (5-6 points)
4. Italian foods & drinks: choose the word that does not belong to the list of items (5-6 points)
5. Describe in your own words these concepts: white widow, padrone, bird of passage, Little Italy, ethnic succession, festa, Ellis Island procedures (2 points each)

Thursday, March 5, 2009

• Numbers oral (0-20)
• Test noted above
• Film (Italian foods in Gloucester, Massachuesetts, PBS)
• Homework: Packet 3 - Borrowed words 13, exercises 26 and 27
• Homework 2: numbers oral (if not completed)

ALL WORK IS DUE ON MONDAY, MARCH 9, THE LAST DAY OF QUARTER 3.

Monday, March 9, 2009

• Tests returned
• Warmup exercises: numbers, translations
• Final numbers orals  [alphabet as well for the few who have not finished]
• How to form a date: months and birthdays; distribution of Packet 4
• Review of homework: vocabulary 13:26-27 from Packet 3
• Finish Italian Americans video I ("The Journey")
• Homework for Wednesday 3/11- vocabulary 14:27, 28

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

• Filmclip from CBS: Mammoni in Italy
• Discussion: vita vecchia (" the old ways")
• Vocabulary: months and dates (work in Packet 4)
• Class worksheet: dates
• Go over Vocabulary 14
• Homework: word analysis sheet dealing with vocabularies 13, 14

Friday the 13th (March 2009)

• Review of vocabulary  
• Telling time in Italian: the basics
• Homework (Packet 5): time and sentences to translate  (double credit)

Sunday, March 15: the Ides of March - anniversary of Julius Caesar's death in 44 B.C.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

• Review and turn in time packet exercises
• New vocabulary: how to make statements about one's family
• Personal description poster project (15 points) - in class
• Homework: study for vocabulary 13/14/translation test; do first side of Italian Worksheet 7

Thursday, March 19, 2009

• Italian Test 2: know 24 words and expressions in Packet 3 (Lessons 13 & 14) plus 10-12 transalations similar to the homework that was done for Tuesday, 3/17
• Film: Italian Americans IIa
• Homework for Monday, 3/23: go to www.yahoo.it and download an article; underline or circle words that are English cognates (words that are easily recognizable)

Monday, March 23, 2009

• Wrap-up of the Italian Unit: word game, description exercise
• Film: Italian Americans IIb
• Discussion: 4 questions/division into groups
• No homework for Thursday, 3/26.  Extra credit article that was announced on 3/19 may be turned in next class.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

• Hebrew/Yiddish Unit begins: packet 1 explores sounds, basic expressions, and some Hebrew words that have come into the English language; game; short synopsis of history of Jews in America
• Homework sheet: 5 questions about Passover, your name in Hebrew and in Hebrew script, 5 original sentences, dates on the Hebrew calendar  (web sources are provided on the worksheet)

Monday, March 30, 2009

• Basic expressions in Hebrew (from vocabulary list on last page of Packet 1)
• Go over Assignment 1 questions that you explored on the internet (double credit - 5 questions to answer): sharing of names, dates, and 5 original sentences
• Discussion of shibboleths
• A look at some Jewish food appropriate to the season: matzoh and macaroons
• Classwork: 3 articles to summarize from packet 2 (seder for disabled, kosher shopping, gefilte fish, doing business on the sabbath)
• Assignment 2: exploring holidays (double credit)

ASSIGNMENT 2 (for your convenience)

1. Do the readings in Packet 2 (choose 3 of the 4 and write 6 observations or summary sentences for each article).

2. Refer to vocabulary 2a on the last page of Packet 1.

1. Choose the only meat from the foods and the only dessert.
2. Which item might be considered a nice gift from grandma for your Bar mitzvah?

3. Use the internet (Wikipedia is a quick source for our questions here.)

1. In what book of the Bible is the first seder described?  ___________________ 
2. What does seder actually mean in Hebrew?  ________________________ 
3. Shabbos begins at what time on what day of the week?
4. Exact times are important for Shabbos.  See if you can find the exact time to begin the special day this week.      _____________

            e. How long does Passover really last (number of days)?   ___________

            f.  How many sides does a dreidel have?  _____

            g. What does Yom Kippur mean in English?  ___________________________

     ____________________________  How many hours does it last?  _____    h.

h. What two things are done during Yom Kippur?

i.       What is the Shoah?

j.      When is Holocaust Remembrance Day?

k.     How many days of Chanukah are there?  ______  When is it celebrated in 2009?

DO NOT COPY YOUR ANSWERS FROM ANOTHER STUDENT.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

• Dorinda Hafner video on Jewish foods and their preparation (PBS) & discussion
• Assignment 2 discussed in class
• Homework: give a synopsis to 3 readings on Jewish life (Packet 2); begin studying for small test on Tuesday (see below)

Friday, April 3, 2009

• Review of homework assignment in Packet 2 (readings)
• Yiddish: what is it?
• Yiddish vocabulary exercise 1
• Homework: prepare for small test on Tuesday, April 7 - basic expressions (Shalom, schmi, ani mi, etc.) and other vocabulary (back page of Packet 1), as well as foods from packets 1 and 3 (manna, kosher, trafe, blintz, pastrami, babka, latke, etc.); matching definitions.  You can best prepare by reviewing Packet 1 and looking over the food video notes from 4/1.  Yiddish words are not on this first test.  Expect 35-40 points.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

• Test 1 on Hebrew expressions and Jewish foods

Monday, April 20, 2009

• Review of Hebrew/Yiddish unit so far (packet 3)
• Work with new Yiddish vocabulary, lesson 19:37, 38 & categorization of terms
• Quiet reading/discussion: "Lip" Pike, baseball's first pro
• Hank Greenberg, baseball's greatest Jewish player: documentary film, part 1
• Classwork/homework: Yiddish vocabulary, lesson 20: 39, 40 & look up on line Hebrew/Yiddish 4
• Project due on Tuesday, April 28 or sooner: Yiddish word picture dictionary chhosing 20 terms, adding picture, and writing an original sentence.  This assignment (all completed outside of class) will take the place of a Yiddish test.  Yofi!
• Picture project: cover page + 27 separate pictures & sentences.  Pictures may be downloaded or cut from magazines.  Since this is a home assignment, you will be graded for creativity, spelling (!), and correct use of the word in the sentence.  If a word is incorrectly used, there is a penalty of one point per mistake. 65 points

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

• Review of lessons 19 and 20
• Homework check: Hebrew/Yiddish terms 4
• Quiet reading/discussion: Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas & Rebecca Gratz, a Mother Seton/Mother Teresa figure
• Hank Greenberg 2
• Homework: it's time to start your picture project

Friday, April 24, 2009

• Hank Greenberg 3
• Various class exercises

Thursday, April 30 - Sophomore Retreat Day (16 students missing)

• Due: take-home reading quiz - "The Yiddish is Coming!" (18 points)
• Yiddish vocabulary game

Tuesday, May 5

CINCO DE MAYO

• If you did not hand in the Yiddish project on time, you are now 2 class days behind and will receive a deduction of 20% even if it's handed in today
• Due: reading quiz from last Thursday's sophomore retreatants
• Due: Yiddish picture dictionary from last week's band/chorus trip (MacKenzie, Mike Cerpa)
• Asian Pacific Unit begins today with background readings and exploration of Chinese workers and immigration in America (prior to the 1880s)
• Homework: Asian Pacific Packet 1 Vocabulary (first two pages - double credit).  Look up meanings on internet and indicate what that word/expression means in Hindi, Japanese, Chinese, etc. (i.e. ninja = "one whom endures" in Japanese; = "mercenary agent trained in the martial arts....."  in English).

Thursday, May 7

• Final projects returned
• Work with last night's assignment on Asian Borrowed words
• Review of movie notes on Chinese in America
• Short comprehension quiz (10 points) using notes on reading in Packet 2
• Statistics about US Foreign-Born and the many Asian Pacific groups in the US

• Reading: Customs in China and Hong Kong/questionnaire
• Preparation for next class on Japanese in America
• Homework: Lesson 21:41, 42 (separate sheet distributed in class)

Monday, May 11

• Warmup: Chinese names exercise; customs in China and Hong Kong
• Homework review of Vocabulary Lesson 21 (see above)
• Vocabulary 22: 43, 44 (in class)
• Movie: Japanese in America
• Final "exam" discussed in class: reading, web search, letter from Japan
• Homework: begin work on web search part of Sem 2 exam (due on Thursday, May 21 - 1/3 of grade)

Wednesday, May 13

• Expressions in Japanese: Ohayô, Konnichi wa, Hai, Arigato, Sayonara, -san
• Reading: Japanese experience in America
• Exercise: comparison/contrast of Chinese and Japanese immigration to America (reasons for coming, jobs, families, laws, World War II
• Vocabulary: categorization of words and expressions in Lessons 21 & 22; three cartoons
• Homework: finish vocabulary exercise if not handed in; continue working on web search test due 5/21

Friday, May 15

• Dorinda Hafner video: Asian food in America
• Introduction to the second part of the semester exam, due on the last week of class (Tuesday, May 26 or Thursday, May 28): "writing" project based on supporting documents - "Letter from Japan"

Tuesday, May 19

• Imagining yourself in Japan! (Lonely Planet video on Tokyo, Nagasaki, etc.)
• Progress check on projects

Thursday, May 21

• WEB SEARCH SECTION OF SEM 2 EXAM IS DUE TODAY (33 1/3 %)
• Asian communities in American cities: graded reading/work packet
• Focus: Koreans in America
• Homework: Prepare Asian Pacific Reading packet for last part of Sem 2 testing.  Be sure to read well and highlight.  Graded questionnaire will be given in class on Tuesday, May 26.

Tuesday, May 26

• READING SECTION OF SEM 2 EXAM TODAY  (33 1/3 %)
• Scores will be ready from Web Search testing

Thursday, May 28

• LAST DAY OF CLASS - "LETTERS FROM JAPAN" ARE DUE  (33 1/3 %)

             HAVE A SAFE & GREAT SUMMER!