Guidelines for the next class (November 8th)

By the next class, you should have reached the following targets:

1. 3000 words on your blog (including typing homeworks, book reviews, and so on)
2. 13 points remaining on book reviews (i.e. you have read 7 points' worth of books or more)
3. 1 podcast episode (My Podcast)
4. 4 posts (including the podcast episode) related to My Project

Introduction to Usborne Books

The first episode of my podcast is now available. In this episode, I talk about the history of Usborne Publishing, a leading publisher of children's books.

Format for links to podcast episodes

http://www2.kumagaku.ac.jp/teacher/wink/lavinmonday/______ss__.mp3

Project

Your project should be about:

• Books
• Movies
• A place
• Other (discuss with your teacher)

Your project should have:

• About Me
• Welcome
• Podcast
• others as necessary

2nd class (October 4th, 2010)

A reminder first: Next week (October 11th) is a holiday, so there will be more homework this week!

And a couple of things about the course as a whole that I may not have made clear last week:

• You need to write a total of at least 10,000 words this semester
• You need to bring a USB flash memory stick to class.
• You need to write a total of at least 20 points' worth of book reviews

Today's menu:

• Juppun ha Juubun
• Start working on personal project

Homework:

• Book reviews 3 & 4 (depending on the level of books you are reading)
• at least 3 other posts (preferably at least 1 or 2 should be connected to your topic)

 

Reading Links

Yomiyasusa Levels

Please check out this page!

Cambridge English Readers

See the homepage.

Writing 4: First class (September 27th, 2010)

Hi, everyone. In the first class, we will start with:

• Juppun ha Juubun.

Think about what you want to write about (maybe your summer holiday or your plans for this semester). Then we will kick off the book reviews by doing some reading in class and then immediately:

• writing a book review on our blog.

Then I'll talk about my

• plans for Writing 4. (Please take a look at the previous post.)

If there's any free time, you can do some free blogging or typing homework, or ask me questions about Writing 4, or start your homework!

Homework:

• another book review
• free blogging