Hello!
How are you? Today
I will introduce our spring semester
final writing assignment (前期期末作文).
It
will be on writing a comparison and contrast (比較対照) short paper. You have a choice of two tasks – choose one.
One
task is close to the kind of writing you have already done. The other is maybe
more abstract (抽象的), and more of a challenge, but one you might find very interesting. Here
are the choices:
1 1. Comparing and contrasting your life
in high school with your life in university.
2 2. Comparing and contrasting two different
works of art.
About the task
For the first task choice:
While many of you might have had
similar experiences in your high school life, I would like you to go into
details. First, where did you go to high school? What were your favorite
classes there? What were the classes you didn’t like? What do you feel were your
best subjects? How about your worst subjects? What about the school facilities (施設) – for example, the classrooms, places for
sports, or things like the school lunches? What were they like?
How do any
of these things compare (比べる) with your life here at Daito Bunka so far?
What do you find about the classes in university that are different (or
similar) to your high school education? Once again – go into details about
these things. What has been the most difficult thing you have found so far
about your university life and education – and what has been the best thing?
For the second task choice:
Composition 6 (Wassily Kandinsky)
How much to write
Good luck! I hope you can enjoy
writing on your choices.
Look at these pairs of artworks. Choose one pair of paintings, research
about who the artists are and when they did the artwork, and write a comparison and contrast about the
artworks.
How are
the pair of pictures like each other? How are they different? What do you feel
from the pictures? What impression (感想) do you
have of the pictures? What kinds of ideas, images, feelings, or even a story do
you get from what you see?
This may
be more challenging for you – but you might find this more interesting,
especially in how you can bring your feelings and impressions into the writing. Here are the artworks:
Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket) (Edouard Manet)
La sonate (The Sonata) (Marcel Duchamp)
Three Musicians (Pablo Picasso)
How much to write
I
would like you to write around 4-5 paragraphs on your
task choice - but if you can write a little more than that, go for it!
I am gathering your writing about your high school and university life into a book called Places & Traces – student writing on places and impressions about them. For writing about artwork, I am gathering these into a book called Every Picture Tells a Story - student writing about art and photography. So try to write to the best you can, because your work may be published (出版した) on both the blog and in these books!
I am gathering your writing about your high school and university life into a book called Places & Traces – student writing on places and impressions about them. For writing about artwork, I am gathering these into a book called Every Picture Tells a Story - student writing about art and photography. So try to write to the best you can, because your work may be published (出版した) on both the blog and in these books!
Deadline (締め切り)
It
will be next week (来週) on July 20th (7/20),
and it will be a final version (完成版). This
means you must begin writing now – do not
wait until the day or night before!
To
help you, I will give you a draft sheet
(下書きシート) that you can write ideas, notes, topic sentences,
and supporting sentences on. You will then write your final version on a separate
sheet of notebook paper. On 7/20, you will hand in both the draft sheet and the
final version.
Images: Top - by diskdepot.co.uk, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45553155/First painting - Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket) by Edouard Manet - By Unknown - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=154408/Second painting - La sonate (The Sonata) by Marcel Duchamp - PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39690832/Third painting - Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso - by MoMA, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4072766/Final painting - by Wassily Kandinsky - State Hermitage Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37610958
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