Japanese/Practical Lessons/Syllabus

Proposed Syllabus for Japanese Textbook/Practical Lessons
This syllabus is based on the following standard:
 * State of California Foreign Language Teaching Standards Icons-mini-file acrobat.gif

There exists a Lesson_Plan based on this syllabus.

Function
Students develop the ability to understand and express:
 * 1) Greetings and introductions
 * 2) Counting
 * 3) Likes and dislikes
 * 4) Actions
 * 5) Ownership
 * 6) Simple requests and commands
 * 7) Simple questions (where, when, why, who, what)
 * 8) Statements about individuals
 * 9) General intent

Level of Competency
Students will become competent to the following levels:
 * 1) Reading
 * 2) Hiragana, Katakana, 100 Kanji, 800 Words (JLPT N5 Kanji and Vocabulary)
 * 3) Identify the general intent of very short texts enhanced by visual clues:
 * 4) Charts
 * 5) Instructions
 * 6) Maps
 * 7) Menus
 * 8) Photographs
 * 9) Posters
 * 10) Schedules
 * 11) Signs
 * 12) Short letters
 * 13) Writing
 * 14) Write Hiragana, Katakana, 100 Kanji
 * 15) Compose short sentences:
 * 16) Notes
 * 17) Poems
 * 18) Postcards
 * 19) Short letters
 * 20) Shopping Lists
 * 21) Todo Lists
 * 22) Listening and Speaking
 * 23) Understand short audio and/or video conversations
 * 24) Be able to speak in short and uncomplicated sentences.
 * 25) Even with some hesitation and errors, understand and speak the function items effectively.
 * 26) Grammar:
 * See User:Retropunk/Japanese_Curriculum/Outline/Beginner_Lessons/Grammar for list of grammar to be mastered in this lesson.

Topics
Possible topics include:
 * 1) Personal
 * 2) Family
 * 3) Friends
 * 4) Home
 * 5) Rooms
 * 6) Health
 * 7) School
 * 8) Hobbies
 * 9) Student life
 * 10) Shopping
 * 11) Clothes
 * 12) Pets and animals
 * 13) Abstract
 * 14) Schedules
 * 15) Prices
 * 16) Size and quantity
 * 17) Symbols
 * 18) Colors
 * 19) Numbers
 * 20) Days
 * 21) Dates
 * 22) Time
 * 23) Directions
 * 24) Weather and seasons
 * 25) Transportation
 * 26) Cultural
 * 27) Holidays and festivals
 * 28) Geography
 * 29) Monuments and places of interest
 * 30) Cultural and historical figures
 * 31) Food and customs
 * 32) Travel
 * 33) Professions and work

Function
Students develop the ability to understand and express:
 * 1) Polite requests and commands
 * 2) Polite questions
 * 3) Needs
 * 4) Descriptions
 * 5) Comparisons
 * 6) Emotions
 * 7) Statements about groups
 * 8) Intent and general meaning

Level of Competency
Students will be competent to the following levels:
 * 1) Reading
 * 2) Hiragana, Katakana, 300 Kanji, 1600 Words (JLPT N4 Kanji and Vocabulary)
 * 3) Identify the intent and general meaning of short texts:
 * 4) Advertisements
 * 5) Tickets
 * 6) Brochures
 * 7) Short narratives
 * 8) Writing
 * 9) Hiragana, Katakana, 300 Kanji
 * 10) Create simple paragraphs
 * 11) Letters and short guided compositions
 * 12) Listening
 * 13) Identify intent and general meaning of uncomplicated speech
 * 14) Understand polite questions, answers and commands
 * 15) Speaking
 * 16) Sentences and strings of sentences
 * 17) Polite questions, commands and requests
 * 18) Accuracy
 * 19) Understand and express intent and general meaning

Topics
Possible topics include:
 * 1) Personal
 * 2) Family
 * 3) Friends
 * 4) Home
 * 5) Rooms
 * 6) Health
 * 7) School
 * 8) Hobbies
 * 9) Student life
 * 10) Shopping
 * 11) Clothes
 * 12) Pets and animals
 * 13) Abstract
 * 14) Schedules
 * 15) Prices
 * 16) Size and quantity
 * 17) Symbols
 * 18) Colors
 * 19) Numbers
 * 20) Days
 * 21) Dates
 * 22) Time
 * 23) Directions
 * 24) Weather and seasons
 * 25) Transportation
 * 26) Cultural
 * 27) Holidays and festivals
 * 28) Geography
 * 29) Monuments and places of interest
 * 30) Cultural and historical figures
 * 31) Food and customs
 * 32) Travel
 * 33) Professions and work

Function
Students develop the ability to understand and express:
 * 1) Clarifications
 * 2) Opinions
 * 3) Narration in the present, past, and future
 * 4) Feelings and emotions
 * 5) Statements about abstract ideas
 * 6) Intent, meaning and important details

Level of Competency
Students will be competent to the following levels:
 * 1) Reading
 * 2) Hiragana, Katakana, 700 Kanji, 3300 Words
 * 3) Identify the intent, meaning and important details of authentic texts:
 * 4) Articles
 * 5) Essays
 * 6) Japanese-Japanese Dictionary
 * 7) Japanese Wikipedia
 * 8) Poems
 * 9) Stories
 * 10) Writing
 * 11) Hiragana, Katakana, 700 Kanji
 * 12) Simple paragraphs
 * 13) Writing journals
 * 14) Letters
 * 15) essays
 * 16) Listening
 * 17) Identify intent and meaning and important details of carefully conveyed language
 * 18) Speaking
 * 19) Strings of related sentences
 * 20) Accuracy
 * 21) Understand and express intent, meaning and important details

Topics
Possible topics include:
 * 1) Knowledge
 * 2) Art
 * 3) History
 * 4) Literature
 * 5) Music
 * 6) Science
 * 7) Cultural
 * 8) Current Affairs
 * 9) Civilisation
 * 10) Politics
 * 11) The Environment
 * 12) Social Issues
 * 13) Government
 * 14) Education System

Function
Students develop the ability to understand and express:
 * 1) Advice and suggestions
 * 2) Comparisons
 * 3) Contrasts
 * 4) Explanations
 * 5) Justification of an opinion or belief
 * 6) Information and knowledge

Level of Competency
Students will be competent to the following levels:
 * 1) Reading
 * 2) Hiragana, Katakana, 1300 Kanji, 5000 Words (JLPT N2)
 * 3) Improve their reading using comprehensive, authentic texts
 * 4) Short books
 * 5) Poems
 * 6) Articles
 * 7) Japanese-Japanese Dictionary
 * 8) Japanese Wikipedia
 * 9) Writing
 * 10) Hiragana, Katakana, 1300 Kanji
 * 11) Series of paragraphs
 * 12) Journals
 * 13) Letters
 * 14) Essays
 * 15) Listening
 * 16) Understand most authentic spoken language well enough to expand speaking and listening ability
 * 17) Speaking
 * 18) Speaks well enough to expand speaking and listening ability
 * 19) Accuracy
 * 20) Can communicate well enough to expand and improve their abilities

Topics
Possible topics include:
 * 1) Knowledge
 * 2) Art
 * 3) History
 * 4) Literature
 * 5) Music
 * 6) Science
 * 7) Cultural
 * 8) Current Affairs
 * 9) Civilisation
 * 10) Politics
 * 11) The Environment
 * 12) Social Issues
 * 13) Government
 * 14) Education System

Function
Students develop the ability to understand and express:
 * 1) Transactions
 * 2) Negotiations
 * 3) Elaborate opinions
 * 4) Analysis and critiques
 * 5) Debates

Level of Competency
Students will be competent to the following levels:
 * 1) Reading
 * 2) Hiragana, Katakana, 2000 Kanji, 8000 Words (JLPT N1)
 * 3) Full comprehension
 * 4) Writing
 * 5) Hiragana, Katakana, 2000 Kanji
 * 6) Writing is clear and fully comprehensible
 * 7) Listening
 * 8) Understand natural spoken Japanese
 * 9) Speaking
 * 10) Near fluent

Topics

 * 1) Philosophical
 * 2) Human rights
 * 3) Knowledge
 * 4) Art
 * 5) History
 * 6) Literature
 * 7) Music
 * 8) Science
 * 9) Science
 * 10) Cultural
 * 11) Current Affairs
 * 12) Civilisation
 * 13) Politics
 * 14) The Environment
 * 15) Social Issues
 * 16) Government
 * 17) Education System