Hello.
My name is Zach and I'm an American high-school student in North Carolina.
Last semester I took the first of four Japanese courses offered at my school. Prior to this course, I had little interest or knowledge of Japanese, but afterwards I had grown to appreciate the culture and become very fond of the language and also our teacher. Our Japanese teacher is a native speaker from Japan where she earned a degree in Japanese Linguistics, she is very nice and a very good teacher.
Our high-school has a graduation requirement called a senior project. The senior project is completed in the twelfth grade as a component of English 4. For the senior project you must choose a topic to do a research paper on, and also a topic for a physical project. Some examples of projects are things like: cooking, martial arts, SCUBA diving, etc. Each student must have a mentor for their project. The mentor should be an adult, but not a family member.
Currently I am a Junior in my second semester, but I am already considering what I should do for my senior project. I recently decided that I would like to do something Japanese-related, and have my Japanese teacher as my mentor.
Some of my ideas for projects are:
Organize and make a website for local Japanese-American community events;
-There is already an event at a local church called Table Talk where Japanese and Americans meet and eat dinner together.
-I'm also skilled with computers, so this would combine two of my interests.
Maybe write a children's book in Japanese?
Maybe some kind of cooking/culinary project, but I don't think my teacher is good at cooking.
I quite like the first idea, but I would also like some input from the members of this website.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Thanks.
My name is Zach and I'm an American high-school student in North Carolina.
Last semester I took the first of four Japanese courses offered at my school. Prior to this course, I had little interest or knowledge of Japanese, but afterwards I had grown to appreciate the culture and become very fond of the language and also our teacher. Our Japanese teacher is a native speaker from Japan where she earned a degree in Japanese Linguistics, she is very nice and a very good teacher.
Our high-school has a graduation requirement called a senior project. The senior project is completed in the twelfth grade as a component of English 4. For the senior project you must choose a topic to do a research paper on, and also a topic for a physical project. Some examples of projects are things like: cooking, martial arts, SCUBA diving, etc. Each student must have a mentor for their project. The mentor should be an adult, but not a family member.
Currently I am a Junior in my second semester, but I am already considering what I should do for my senior project. I recently decided that I would like to do something Japanese-related, and have my Japanese teacher as my mentor.
Some of my ideas for projects are:
Organize and make a website for local Japanese-American community events;
-There is already an event at a local church called Table Talk where Japanese and Americans meet and eat dinner together.
-I'm also skilled with computers, so this would combine two of my interests.
Maybe write a children's book in Japanese?
Maybe some kind of cooking/culinary project, but I don't think my teacher is good at cooking.
I quite like the first idea, but I would also like some input from the members of this website.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Thanks.
I like the idea...
