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Give a virtural campus tour of Moanalua High School from your perspective. 

 

Each topic we cover will add a new chapter to your "My Year in Japanese 2" VoiceThread.

Follow the directions outlined in the project sheet below to guide you through this year-long project.

Campus Tour Project

 

  • The pictures or other graphics should represent the things in your bubble map that you can say

    • Set up your slides effectively

      • Add pictures or graphics that are relevant to what you are able to say

      • Do not add too many pictures or graphics to any one slide. You will need to address each picture you include

      • Use your best judgement to decide how to include the visuals to help your presentation be effective

    • Make as many slides as you need to cover the different topics you want to talk about

      • Think of each slide as a paragraph

      • Organize your images logically, in an easy to follow order

      • Do NOT include any words in Japanese

  • Save your slides as a jpeg using the “save as…” feature

    • Different programs have different procedures

    • Ask for help if you don’t know how to save a file in a different format

    • Use the “help” function for step-by-step instructions

  • Be sure to include a section title slide with your name, period, date of recording

  • When you have saved your jpeg pictures

    • Save your files in an appropriate labeled folder

    • If you want to work on them in class, please send the files to yourself or save them onto a thumb drive

Slide Preparation

  • Using your bubble map as a guide

    • Create a collage using PowerPoint, Keynote, Word or any other document that can accept pictures

    • Create appropriate slides

      • Subtitle Slide:  Campus Tour Project

        • Name

        • Date

        • Period

      • Credit slide

        • Cite your sources appropriately (especially for clip art and photos)

        • List “thank you” for assistance to acknowledge those who helped you prepare

      • Glossary/Vocabulary slide (to be added after the recording is done)

        • Include all new words or grammar patterns that you used that were not a part of what was covered up to Topic 11.

        • Give both Japanese and English equivalents

Planning

  • Create a new bubble map to brainstorm, plan and organize the information you will talk about to introduce your current classes and teachers

    • Include and overview of your schedule

      • the bell schedule

      • what classes you have each period

      • who the teachers are

    • Describe your classes

      • Pick 3 classes to focus on

        • ​your best

        • your most difficult

        • your favorite teacher

      • Include physical and positional descriptions

        • ​where the classroom is located

        • what is special in the classroom

        • how the classroom is set up

      • Include what you think about the class and the teacher

        • what you like and dislike

        • what happens

        • what you do

      • Discuss different information for each class (try not to repeat the same things over and over)

    • Fill in your bubble map with only English! No vocabulary or grammar in Japanese!

      • ​exception:  people's names written in Katakana

    • NO paragraphs or scripted sentences allowed in your bubble map or outline!

  • Use a variety of grammar patters and vocabulary that were covered up to Topic 11

    • focus on the new patterns

    • use appropriate grammar that fits the situation and content

Procedures:

  • Start with your "My Year in Japanese 2" VoiceThread Presentation

    • Using the same slide presentation as your self-introduction, family introduction and activities.

    • Adding a new section-starting with a new (sub)-title page.

  • Create a new bubble map to brainstorm, plan and organize the information you will talk about to talk about your classes and teachers

  • Use a variety of grammar patters and vocabulary that were covered up to Topic 11

  • Using your bubble map as a guide to create your slides

  • Do NOT write a script!

    • Work out sentence patterns on your bubble map or in your planning notes

  • Must be presented without notes or help and recorded in class during the assessment period

Parameters:

ES.VA2.O Vocabulary Application

ES.VA2.O Vocabulary Application

eXceeds

Meets

Emerging

Not met

-Accurately applies appropriate new and previously learned grammar to target content orally,

-Consistently selects accurate particles with appropriate placement, uses natural order and appropriate tenses and forms.

-Structure choice enhances meaning of the content/message. 

(100%)

-Applies some newly learned grammar to the target content orally.

-Relies on previously learned grammar patterns.

-May include some distracting particle selection and placement, order, form and tense that interrupt the flow and understanding of the content and ideas.

(95%>n>50%)

-Applies some newly learned grammar to the target content orally.

-Relies on previously learned grammar patterns.

-May include some distracting particle selection and placement, order, form and tense that interrupt the flow and understanding of the content and ideas.

(95%>n>50%)

- Minimally applies newly learned grammar orally.

-Relies on prior knowledge of structures or mostly on set phrases.

-Contains repeated, distracting errors in particle selection, placement, order, form or tense.

-Errors interfere with the flow of content and ideas, and inhibits understanding.

(n<50%)

eXceeds

Meets

Emerging

Not met

-Accurately selects most appropriate vocabulary to express target content effectively

-Word choice and form enhances meaning of the content/message

-Accurate orthography, spelling, form and tense effectively communicates content/message

(100%)

-Selects appropriate target vocabulary to express target content effectively

-Word choice and form convey meaning of the content/message

-Orthography, spelling, form or tense may contain minimal, non-distracting errors that do not detract from content/message 

(n>90%)

-Selects some new, but mostly previously learned vocabulary to express target content

-Word choice, form, orthography, spelling or tense may contain distracting errors that affect understanding and interrupt flow of content/message 

(90%>n>50%)

-Minimally selects a few new, but mostly relies on previously learned vocabulary to express target content

-May use distracting non-target language words/spelling/orthography

-Word choice, form, spelling, orthography or tense contain distracting errors that affect understanding and prevents flow of content/message 

(90%>n>50%)

After the assessment day, visit your selected classmates’ presentations on your own 

  • Listen to the presentations you are assigned

    • Add at least 1 comment (agreement, a “me, too” or other questions) to each slide in Japanese

      • Ask questions to clarify things

      • Ask questions to find out more details

      • Add in your own opinion to share or make connections

    • Find the Peer Assessment survey below

      • Comment on their presentation appropriately, referencing the criteria to justify your rating as you fill out the survey items

        • Give the ratings from the three rubrics

        • Justify your rating with examples or direct reference to the presentation

        • Make suggestions for improvements

        • Praise successfully meeting the criteria

      • Repeat the peer assessment process for each presentation you are assigned to rate

2.3.1 Oral Presentation Content Rubric

  • Recording On Assessment Day

    • Bring a set of earphones/ear buds

    • Be sure the volume on the laptop is turned down to about 25% or less of the volume bar

    • Go to VoiceThread

      • find your "My Year in Japanese 2" presentation

      • open it

    • Press the “Comment” button, then select “record”

      • Start recording your presentation

        • Always start the recording on the Subtitle page with

          • Period

          • Name (last, first)

          • Title of the presentation

          • Date (year, month, date, day of the week) that you are recording

      • Maximum 15 minutes to record the rest of your presentation

      • After saving, listen again to a few seconds to be sure your recording has been saved

      • Listen to the first few seconds before you save

      • Use the “draw” tool to write or point out specific things on your slides as you talk about them

  • Signing on to VoiceThread

    • Open Safari or any other browser you like to use

    • Go to the VoiceThread site:  https://ed.voicethread.com

    • Open your "My Year in Japanese 2" project

    • Click on the gear/wheel and select "edit"

    • Upload your new slides

      • You should already see the slides from the Self-Introduction section

      • Click “Upload” to upload your slides

        • This may take a while

        • You can reorder the slides by sliding them around the screen once they are all loaded

    • Do not do anything more at this point

 

Your presentation should alredy be shared with your Period Group.

Not met
Meets
eXceeds
Emerging

-Does not participate in conversation readily to provide any details or to attempt to elaborate on a familiar topic in the target language

-May ask questions, but does not clarify information and may stray off topic or ask irrelevant questions

-May answer queries, but does not elaborate on the topic/content, and may not give appropriate information or strays off topic repeatedly

-Task incomplete or unsuccessful

-Primarily uses previously acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures, with minimal use of newly introduced grammar or vocabulary

-Contains distracting errors that impede understanding

-Does not self-correct and includes repeated errors in production and understanding

-Attempts to participate in conversation to provide some details and to somewhat elaborate on a familiar topic in the target language

-Asks questions to sometimes clarify information, but may stray off topic or ask irrelevant questions

-Answers queries to somewhat elaborate on the topic/content, but may not give appropriate information or may stray off topic

-Task may be incomplete or unsuccessful

-Uses target vocabulary and grammatical structures, but may contain distracting errors

-Does not self-correct or includes repeated errors

-Engages in conversation to provide details and to elaborate on a familiar topic and complete a task in the target language

-Asks appropriate questions to clarify information

-Answers queries appropriately to elaborate on the topic/content

-Completes task within the situation

-Accurately uses target vocabulary and grammatical structures appropriately (self-corrects and does not repeat any non-distracting errors)

-Readily engages in conversation to provide details and to elaborate on a familiar topic and complete a task in the target language

-Accurately asks appropriate questions to clarify information

-Answers queries completely and appropriately to elaborate on the topic/content

-Completes task within the situation

-Accurately uses a variety of newly and previously introduced vocabulary and grammatical structures appropriately (self-corrects and does not repeat any non-distracting errors)

WL.IS.Y2.1.2:  Provide details to elaborate on familiar topics and ask clarifying questions.
WL.IS.Y2.1.1:  Ask and answer questions to get information and clarify something that has been not clearly understood.

-Engages in conversation to gather/give necessary information to complete a task in the target langauge

-Asks relevant questions based on the topic or situation to get needed information

-Answers queries appropriately to share needed information

-Responds to statements or questions using introduced culturally appropriate language or body language

-Completes the task within the situation

-Accurately uses the newly introduced vocabulary and grammatical structures

-Minor errors are not repeated and do not distract from understanding and communication

-Readily engages in conversation to sustain a topic, gather/give appropriate information and complete a task in the target language

-Accurately asks questions appropriate to the conversational topic or situation to get information

-Answers queries completely and appropriately to share information

-Actively clarifies things that are not clearly understood using appropriate communication strategies

-Completes task within the situation

-Accurately uses a variety of newly and previously introduced vocabulary and grammatical structures appropriately (self-corrects and does not repeat any non-distracting errors)

-Participates in conversation to gather/give information, but does not attempt to engage others, in the target language

-Asks questions, may be off topic, to get information

-Answers questions, but may be responding inappropriately

-May use inappropriate or culturally unacceptable responses to statements or questions

-Task may be incomplete or unsuccessful

-May not use newly introduced vocabulary and grammatical structures, relying on prior knowledge only

-Errors in word choice, grammatical structure or logical flow are distracting and affect accurate understanding and communication

-Does not engage in conversation readily by asking or answering questions, may need to be coerced or forced

-May ask some questions, but is mostly off topic, distracting or incomprehensible

- May answer some questions, but is mostly off topic, distracting or incomprehensible

-Does not use introduced, culturally appropriate responses

-Task is incomplete and unsuccessful

-Does not use newly introduced vocabulary and grammaticl structures, relying only on prior knowledge

-Errors are very distracting and affect understanding and communication

Not met
Emerging
Meets
eXceeds

eXceeds

Meets

Emerging

Not met

-Clearly and logically presents an organized narrative including information, descriptions or explanations orally in the target language based on a familiar experience/event

-Accurately uses a variety of introduced sentence patterns and set phrases appropriately

-May include strings of related sentences with appropriate sentence connectors

-Accurately applies a range of new and applicable introduced vocabulary

-Completes the task

-Uses target language exclusively

-Does not rely on any notes or language cues

*If impromptu:  does not rely on any notes or other translation assistance to prepare

-Presents an organized narrative including information, descriptions or explanations orally in the target language on a familiar experience/event

-Accurately uses introduced sentence patterns

-May include set phrases and strings of sentences with appropriate sentence connectors

-Accurately applies newly introduced vocabulary relevant to the topic

-Completes the task

-Uses target language with minimal, non-distracting extraneous native language interjections

-May use non-target language notes or cues, minimally

*If impromptu: may use notes minimally to prepare, but does not rely on other translation assistance

-Presents a narrative with some information, basic descriptions or simple explanations orally in the target language on a familiar experience/event

-Presentation may not be organized or logical or may be off topic making it difficult to understand

-Uses some simple sentences or set phrases with sentence connectors, but may contain distracting or repeated errors

-Uses some newly introduced sentence patterns, but they may contain distracting or repeated errors

-May include new vocabulary, but word choice may be distracting

-Task may be incomplete

-Use of non-target language is distracting and affects understanding of the message

*If impromptu:  uses notes and some translation assistance to prepare

-Attempts to present very simple narrative with some information, basic descriptions or simple explanations orally in the target language on a familiar experience/event

-Presentation is disorganized or off topic

-Uses mostly set phrases or previously learned sentences with little attempt at new patterns

-Sentence connectors may be misused or incorrect

-If new sentence patterns are used, they may be incorrect

-Uses mostly previously learned vocabulary

-Contains repeated distracting errors the affect understanding

-Task is incomplete

-Use of non-target language is distracting and affects understanding

*If impromptu:  heavily uses notes and translation assistance to prepare

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