Hello!
How are you? The picture above is of Quoc Hoc high school in Hue, Vietnam. This is one of the most high-level high schools in Vietnam, and the statue outside the main building is of Ho Chi Minh, who, as a teenager, went to this school under his real name, Nguyen Tat Thanh.
I show this picture as a way to illustrate our fourth (4th) writing assignment - comparing and contrasting educational systems between Japan and another country.
While I have given all of you the handout about the assignment, I will post about it here as another way to remind all of you on what you can write about.
Topic
I look forward to reading your great writing on this topic! See you next week!
I show this picture as a way to illustrate our fourth (4th) writing assignment - comparing and contrasting educational systems between Japan and another country.
While I have given all of you the handout about the assignment, I will post about it here as another way to remind all of you on what you can write about.
Topic
In this topic, compare and contrast similarities and differences
in educational systems between Japan and another country.
Choices
within the topic
While the
topic is fixed, you can choose any country to compare and contrast with Japan.
While I showed you the videos on the blogpost about education in Finland,
India, and South Korea, you do not have to limit yourself on education in those
countries - in fact, I encourage you to find other videos and readings on
educational systems in other countries.
You can choose any level of education as your point of
comparison and contrast – elementary, junior high school and high school, and
university. (Please remember
to compare and contrast the same levels of
education – for example, elementary school in Japan with elementary school in
Germany, or high school in Japan with high school in Russia).
In addition, you can choose the organizational style you make your comparison and contrast with – a block method, or point-by-point method. (Just remember – if you want to show more how two things contrast, the block method is better. If you want to show how two things compare, then the point-by-point method is better).
In addition, you can choose the organizational style you make your comparison and contrast with – a block method, or point-by-point method. (Just remember – if you want to show more how two things contrast, the block method is better. If you want to show how two things compare, then the point-by-point method is better).
How much to
write
I would like
you to write around 3-4 paragraphs' worth of writing –
though I would also like to see you write with as many points of comparison and
contrast as you can. This might make your paper longer – say, 4-5 paragraphs’
worth, or maybe even a little longer – but for a topic like this, the longer,
the better.
Deadline (締め切り)
It will
be November 1st (11/1). Bring in a first draft (下書き) next
week on October 25th, in
your notebooks in pencil – with an article about an educational system
in a country you want to compare with the same level of education in Japan.
I will then go around and talk to as many of you as I can to review your work,
and you can change things about the draft as you need to, then type up your
final version on a Word document and turn in your work on November 1st.
I will show
you the format for what I want the typed final version to look like on November 1st.
Good luck
with this! We will
begin to write a little more deeply, this time with final versions typed
up.
I look forward to reading your great writing on this topic! See you next week!
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