Anime, Japanese, and You
0.25 Japanese Language Credit | 0.25 World Civilizations Credit
This class will use Japanese anime and language as a springboard to analyze, critique, and connect with Japanese values as students compare them with their own.
A blend of online and 3 Saturday face-to-face sessions
Location: TBD
Teacher
Niki Fullmer
Instructor Email Address
nfullmer@meridianschool.org
Resources Needed
The class fee will cover all resources.
More About the Class
Students can expect to develop new ways of looking at the world around them, and learn new perspectives/values/systems, culminating in ways to empathize with others. This take on Japanese culture will examine belief systems and help students validate or reconsider their own ways of experiencing the world.
Primary Location of in-person classes
The primary location of this class will be in Murray, Utah. More information will be provided after enrollment.
Class Schedule Breakdown
This course will take place in 6 in-person sessions over a period of 1 week. Students will attend Monday through Saturday. More information will be provided after enrollment.
Prerequisites
Prior knowledge of hiragana and katakana would be helpful. No prerequisites.
Projects/Assignments
Students will display competency by turning in mini-projects each day digitally. Students will show competency by engaging in role-play, authentic communicative experiences, small discussions, and group projects. Students will create a promotional video about one Japanese value they like, and a personal essay that can be used for college entrance or job interviews.
Competencies Covered
W.H. 2.3 Students will make evidence-based inferences about the cultural values of classical civilizations, using artistic expressions of various genres as primary sources. ( Japanese classical period:550-1185A.D.- first of three periods of deliberate cultural borrowing and adaptation
W.H. 2.4 Students will explain the impact of early trans-regional trade on the diffusion of religion, ideas, technology, and other aspects of culture (see reference above)
W.H.3.5 Students will identify patterns in the diffusion of technology, writing, religion, political systems, and other elements of civilization, using case studies such as the Chinese impact on Japan. But mostly focus on Japanese isolationism.
W.H. 5.1 Students will identify the cause-and-effect relationships between absolutism, nationalism, and the political and social revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Meiji Restoration
W.H. 5.5 Students will compare and contrast the long-term effects of imperialism on a global scale.
W.H. 6.6 Students will make a case for the most significant social, political, and economic consequences of 20th-century global conflicts and crises, such as human migration, genocide, poverty, epidemics, the creation of social welfare systems, the rise of dictators, the nuclear arms race, and human rights violations. (W.W.2, Atomic Bomb, COVID)
W.H. 7.4 Students will identify a pressing global problem and select the most promising political, technological, medical, or scientific advances being created to address those problems.
Japanese Language Competencies
NL.IL.1 I can occasionally identify the sound of a character or a word.
NL.IL.2 I can occasionally understand isolated words that I have memorized, particularly when accompanied by gestures or pictures.
NL.IC.1 I can greet my peers.
NM.IC.1 I can greet and leave people in a polite way.
NLPS I can present information about myself and some other very familiar topics using single words or memorized phrases,
NL.PS.3 I can introduce myself to a group.
NL.PS.4 I can recite short memorized phrases, parts of poems, and rhymes.
Japanese Intercultural Competencies
N.CPP.1 I can identify some common products related to home and community (geography, landmarks, pop culture)
N.CPP.2 I can identify some common practices related to home and community life of other cultures and my own.
N.CP.1 I can identify some beliefs and values related to age, gender, social class, and ethnicity.
N.CP.2 I can identify some characteristics of national identity.
N.CP.3 I can identify ways in which cultures are globalized.
N. ICA.1 I can imitate some simple patterns of behavior in familiar settings across cultures (etiquette, table manners, gift-giving).
N.CIA.2 I can use memorized language and very basic cultural knowledge to interact with others.
N.CIA.3 I can use memorized language, and very basic cultural knowledge to accomplish simple, routine tasks. (Use train time table, ask directions, how to buy things)
**For this class, you will receive credit from Meridian School.