Grade 7 - Experiencing Creative Works

This sub-organizer contains the following sections:
Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

It is expected that students will:

view and listen to creative works with visual and contextual support, and respond to them in various ways

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

Teachers should provide adequate visual and contextual support to enable students to fully appreciate and enjoy Japanese creative works. Students may recognize some of the language in these works and use their growing range of language-learning strategies to predict the meanings of new expressions.

Invite a guest speaker to talk about and demonstrate calligraphy. Then challenge students to write kana &nbspwith a fude and ink. Students could also use graphics software to practise drawing kana .
Ask students in groups to predict events in a story on the basis of a few given words or pictures. Then have them create dialogue for a simple sequence of manga drawings.
Encourage students to sing simple Japanese songs related to numbers, body parts, seasons, and other simple themes.
Present a selection of simple poems, nonsense rhymes, or tongue-twisters in Japanese. As students become familiar with these works, they can be used as prompts for various activities or for just having fun with the language.
Invite the class to listen to songs in Japanese while following lyric sheets. Ask students to note repeated phrases, words, or rhythms. Then have them work in groups to practise lip-sync routines (karaoke ) and present them to the class.
Ask students to view and listen to simple Japanese haiku poems and then compose their own haiku in English.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

Grade 7 students are able to experience and respond to an increasing range of creative works. Assessment information most often comes from observing students' participation and engagement, reviewing their collections of written and visual representations, and rating their self-assessments.

When students write and draw in response to stories they hear, read, or view, look for evidence that they:
- recognize the main ideas
- sequence key events, where appropriate
- include main characters, where appropriate
- represent the moods, feelings, or points of view of the stories
As students listen to and lip-sync songs, look for evidence that they:
- respond to the meaning as well as to the sounds and rhythms
- make connections with other music they have heard
- are open to and willing to engage in new experiences
Review the haiku that students compose in English and illustrate in Japanese style. Look for evidence that:
- number of syllables per line is correct
- poems contain elements of nature, seasons, or similar Japanese themes
- imagery captures mood and feeling
- illustrations contain elements of Japanese style (e.g., simplicity, line, colour)
Ask students to work in small groups to create brief (six- to eight-frame) manga modelled on those they have read. Look for evidence that students are interested in and willing to explore the comic-strip form as a way of creating meaning in Japanese, and are using some of the key features of manga in their work.

RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES

Print Materials

Haiku

Multimedia

Niko Niko

Games/Manipulatives

The Complete Origami Kit for Children

Audio Cassette

Rapanese 1, 2, 3

Revised: January 26, 1999

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