Wednesday 13:00 Class
Homework
September 2022 - January 2023 Instructor: Dennis Riches
You can download the transcript for the lecture about air pollution and urban forests.
Send the first draft of your
presentation to the teacher as an attachment file in email.
You can download the document for
the lecture about the extinction of the
dinosaurs here, and you
can watch the video here
(4:36).
The first draft of your
presentation is due on November 30th. Send the powerpoint file to the
teacher as an email attachment. The instructions for the assignment
can be seen in what is written on this page below "October 5th".
You can download the document for the lecture about the American Civil War, and you can watch the video here (4:36)
October 26, 2022
You can review the video comparing Presidents Kennedy and Lincoln (with English subtitles).
The
document for this video is here.
October 12, 2022
Instead of a lesson in class, I gave the students some material to study on their own. The assignment was to watch the video at this link (19 minutes).
The transcript and discussion questions are in this pdf file, so please study this too. Be ready to discuss the video on 10/19. On that day, I will also collect the homework assigned on 10/05.
October 5, 2022
Write a
three-minute speech that compares and contrasts the American Black
Bear and the Grizzly Bear. Use the expressions on page 3 of the lesson
about Asian and African elephants as a model for this exercise. This link about bears is a good source
to use. You can make a comparison and contrast in terms of face, ears,
body shape, size, weight, color, claws, footprints, dangers to humans,
diet, habitat.
You can download the transcript about elephants here and watch the video here.
When you do
your research for your presentation, you might find a movie in the
"biopic" genre that is useful for your study. Here are some examples
related to national history of various countries. Some of these are
biopics and some are historical dramas based on actual events. You can
probably find these in Japan at DVD rental stores:
Racism in America
12 Years a Slave, Ali, American History X, BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Mississippi Burning, The Best of Enemies, To Kill a Mockingbird
American Politics and Presidents
All the President's Men, Born on the Fourth of July, Bridge of Spies, JFK, LBJ, Vice, W., Lincoln, Nixon, Milk, Platoon, Snowden, The Right Stuff, The Trial of the Chicago Seven, War Machine, Wasp Network,Thirteen Days
World War II
Darkest Hour,
Downfall, Schindler's List, Hacksaw Ridge, Patton, The King's Speech,
Catch 22
Environment
and Public Health
Erin Brokovich,
The Insider, Minamata, Silkwood, A Civil Action, Dallas Buyers Club
20th Century
History (not American history)
Dr. Zhivago, Frida, Gandhi, Lawrence of Arabia, Reds, Seven Years in Tibet, The Last Emperor, The Last King of Scotland, Invictus, Tesla, Che (Part One and Part Two), Colette
Renaissance
and Enlightenment Era
Elizabeth, The Mission, A Man for All Seasons, Amadeus, Braveheart
September 28, 2022
As preparation for your presentation projects, we looked at examples of presentations about the history of particular countries.
You can review these examples at these links:
The next video we will study is an example of a "compare and contrast" essay or lecture. The topic is very simple, but we will study this to learn the expressions that are used to compare and contrast two or more things. You can download the transcript here and watch the video here.
September 21, 2022
The file you need to complete
your homework was sent by email. Check your Seijo email account to get
it, or download it here.
The link to the video that we studied in class is inside that file
(watch it again here). Do
the speaking exercise on pages 4 and 5, and do the note-taking and
summary exercise on page 7. Sample answers are on pages 8 and 9, but
of course you should look at those pages after you finish page 7.
For the final project, we will be doing our presentations with another class. The suggested theme for this semester's presentations is to continue to study the place you covered in the first semester. This time, research an aspect of that place's history. If you want to choose another place, that is alright, but I would like to stay with this theme of historical research about a particular place.