Rikkyo - Reading & Writing - Elvin

Dear students, Today you will talk about media. Please download the prints and bring them to class. media 1 media 2 media 3 Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will study about language. Please download the prints and bring them to class. Language and Communication Where did English language come from? Questions about Langauge Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will study about gender. Please download the prints and bring them to class. Gender Quiz Brain Gender Kind regards, Chris Elvin P.S. You should hand in your portfolio at the end of the semester. You may show your portfolio or essay to me any time during class. I can check your writing or APA format and offer you feedback.

Dear students, Today you will study about human rights. Please download the prints below and bring them to class. Universal Declaration of Human Rights BBC Human Rights Case Studies BBC Human Rights Case Studies Online Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will study about globalization. Please download the print below and bring it to class. Download globalization print Kind regards, Chris Elvin Globalization help sheet

Dear students, Today you will discuss about fashion. Please download the file below and bring the prints to class. Download fashion prints Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will write a two-paragraph review of a graded reader that you read recently. The first paragraph should describe the story (who, what, when, where, why, how) and finish with an in-text citation (the author's family name, comma, year of publication of the book you read enclosed by parentheses). The second paragraph should be your opinion of the book. Finally, you should write a full APA formatted reference for the book in the "References" (see page 20 of "Becoming A Better Writer". Kind regards, Chris Elvin P.S. Please call me Mr. Elvin or Chris, not teacher.

Dear students, Welcome to the course. Your grading criteria is as follows: Attendance 30 Class portfolio 30 Mid-term assignment 20 Final assignment 20 Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, I have decided to cancel the blog. There is no need to visit it for the moment. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today you will learn about the course, go online to find out your reading level, and study chapter one of the textbook, Select Readings . Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, The grading criteria has been changed to as follows: Attendance and participation/group work (30%) You should attend ALL classes. l   Students need to attend 80% or more of the classes taught to earn a passing grade. Students who are absent from class four times or more fail the course. l   You may apply for exemption when your absences are due to the following cases.   1. Officially approved illnesses （学校感染症）   2. Lay judge （裁判員制度）   3. Bereavement leave （三親等以内の忌引き） l   Coming late for class two times is counted as one absence in this course. l   Train delay slips ( 遅延証明 ) issued at stations are not valid unless in the case of a serious interruption of service due to an accident. Mid-term test (10%) There will be a short mid-term test based on the topics of the textbook. Graded reader assignments (40%) You should read one graded reader per week from Macmillan Graded readers, Oxford Bookworms, Penguin R...

Dear students, I would like to reward all the hard work that you are putting in for your portfolios and announce a change in the points system for your grading. I hope it will be to your liking. Here is the new distribution: portfolio - 40 points attendance - 30 points (this can't change) three book summaries of 150 words each - 10 points mid-term test - 10 points final test - 10 points Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Today is the last lesson. Please make sure to bring your portfolio to class. It should include everything that you did in class. You should also remember your three book summaries. After you have handed in your portfolio, you will have a final test. Test Question: Read an article in one of the newspapers listed below: The Guardian The Washington Post The Japan Times (The date of the article should be the same as the test day). Summarize it in one or two paragraphs. Cite it in your essay in APA format. Write your opinion of the article in one or two paragraphs. Write a full APA formatted reference to it in the "Reference" section of your essay. In total you should write more than 250 words. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, Please read your group essay on globalization to another group. Then hand it in to your teacher for marking. Your topic today is gender. In groups of three, choose a topic within the broad subject of gender. Draw a map, write a thesis statement and title, and write your parts of the essay. Type this up for homework, and highlight the parts that you wrote. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

Dear students, First, read your group essay about media to another group. Then highlight your parts of the essay and hand it in to your teacher for checking. Today's topic is globalization. Please write about this in groups of three. Let your teacher check your map before you write. You should write at least 250 words per person and type this up in APA format for homework. Kind regards, Chris Elvin