| Curricular Competency |
Identify and explore educational and personal/professional opportunities requiring proficiency in Japanese |
Japanese 12 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: educational and personal/professional opportunities |
Elaboration: e.g., academic research, translation, international affairs, government, teaching, travel, study abroad |
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| Curricular Competency |
Analyze personal, shared, and others’ experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through a cultural lens |
Japanese 12 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: cultural lens |
Elaboration: e.g., values, practices, traditions, perceptions |
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| Curricular Competency |
Engage in experiences with Japanese people and communities |
Japanese 12 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: Engage in experiences |
Elaboration: e.g., blogs, school visits (including virtual/online visits), concerts, exchanges, festivals, films, letters, plays, social media, stores and restaurants with service in Japanese |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize the regional and ethnic diversity of Japanese language and culture |
Japanese 12 |
Personal and social awareness |
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| Curricular Competency |
Share information using the presentation format best suited to their own and others’ diverse abilities |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: presentation format |
Elaboration: e.g., digital, visual, verbal; aids such as charts, graphics, illustrations, music, photographs, videos, props, digital media |
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| Curricular Competency |
Express themselves effectively, with fluency and accuracy, both orally and in writing |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: fluency and accuracy |
Elaboration: e.g., using the full range of tenses and moods, developing flow, employing precise vocabulary, using appropriate structures |
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| Curricular Competency |
Exchange ideas and information on a variety of topics, both orally and in writing |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Exchange ideas |
Elaboration: with peers, teachers, and members of the wider community; can include virtual/online conversations |
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| Curricular Competency |
Narrate stories, both orally and in writing |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Narrate |
Elaboration: Use expressions of time and transitional words to show logical progression.Use multiple time frames. |
| Keyword: stories |
Elaboration: Stories are a narrative form of text that can be oral, written, or visual. Stories are derived from truth or fiction and may be used to seek and impart knowledge, entertain, share history, and strengthen a sense of identity. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use various strategies to increase understanding and produce oral and written language |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: strategies |
Elaboration: For example:negotiate meaning by using questions in Japanese and other techniques for clarificationsummarize information in oral, visual, and written formsuse dictionaries and other reference materials for clarity of comprehension and expression |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize how choice of words affects meaning |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Analyze and compare elements of creative works from diverse Japanese communities |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Respond personally to a variety of texts |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Respond personally |
Elaboration: e.g., provide personal interpretations or opinions |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize different purposes, degrees of formality, and cultural points of view in a variety of texts |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: purposes |
Elaboration: e.g., to convince, inform, entertain |
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| Curricular Competency |
Locate and explore a variety of Japanese texts |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: “Text” is a generic term referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communications. Oral, written, and visual elements can also be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Negotiate meaning and perspectives in a wide variety of contexts |
Japanese 12 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: contexts |
Elaboration: e.g., differing in terms of audience, purpose, setting, formality/informality |
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