Hello!
How are you? Today, I will introduce our spring semester mid-term short presentations. Our topic will be about our family origins (素性) and migration (移動) patterns.
Where did your parents - your mother and father - come from? How about your family history before your parents? Which parts of Japan did your grandparents, or their parents, come from?
If you are from another country, which part, or parts, of the country did your family come from? If you have part of your origins in Japan and part in another country, which country was it and which side of your family - your mother's or father's - is the connection with the country on?
Topic, task, & guidelines
Look at the picture above. It's a small rough poster from a student who researched her family's migration history - the places where her parents came from and how they met.
This is a good example of what you can do. I would like you to do some research - which could include asking your parents and/or grandparents - on your family's origins. You can make a Power Point show, or a small poster.
Have some maps - you can hand draw them or download from the internet and note them yourself on computer - and some pictures of the places where your family and some relatives (親族) came from and where they went.
If you hand draw things, simple pictures are okay - but make your posters or scanned pictures colorful and interesting to look at.
Important note: To make this a little more interesting, imagine that you are going to tell a story about your family's history and migration from one part of Japan (or elsewhere) to another - let's call it "My Family's History as a Journey."
Making this as a story might help you remember how to speak on details and make your speaking smoother and easier for you to remember and for others listening to your talk to follow.
Include information on your displays such as:
- Where your grandparents (or great-grandparents, if you can find out) came from and where they met
- What the family names of the grandmothers (or great-grandmothers, if you can find out) were
- Where your parents met and when they got married
- When your parents moved to where they now live
For this presentation, you can design a small poster or make a Power Point show.
If you design a poster, I would like you to follow these guidelines:
- It has to be on A3 size paper
- You have to have 3-4 pictures on it (hand-drawn or photos, or a mix)
- It has to be colorful and interesting to look at
If you make a Power Point show, I would like you to follow these guidelines:
- You have to have a title slide - then 5-7 slides with pictures and text on it - then a closing slide
- It has to be colorful and interesting to look at
- Bring your own computer or tablet - I cannot give anyone any computers!
Deadline (締め切り）
Our presentation day will be on June 12th (6/12), so you have two (2) weeks to prepare.
For next week (6/5) - bring enough content so you can give me an idea about how you would organize your talk. This way we can do some basic presentation practice.
You do not have to be 100% finished with your display - but you should have enough content to practice with. I would like to see the work you have done and give you some advice on what you can do to make the best presentations you can. You can then finish your work outside of class after and be ready to present on 5/30.
Important note:
Because this is our mid-term presentation, we all have to be here on the day of the presentation. Not coming will lower your grade. This is because we have to move onto other topics after these presentations, so we have to keep going on the syllabus. We will have no time for makeup (補講) presentation days for this.
Another difference from our first presentations is that this time, you will check each other's presentations. I will show you how we can do this in the next class on 6/5.
Here are the board notes for our class today on 5/29:
Good luck with this! I look forward to our presentation day!
Image: Personal photograph of student poster. All rights reserved on content to the student.
