Japanese 100a (29050) Fall 2017 (EALL Conference Room HIB 469)

Susan Blakeley Klein
HIB 479, Off#824-8165; email: sbklein@uci.edu
office hours: Wednesday 11-12, Tuesday 2-3, and by appointment (extra hours before exams)

COURSE OBJECTIVES AND REQUIRED TEXTS

Reading Packet 1 PDF

Reading Packet 2 PDF

REQUIREMENTS

Disability Accomodations

Academic Honesty policies

POLICY ON MAKE-UP QUIZZES/EXAMS: At my discretion. Please inform me ahead of time if you cannot make the quiz or exam. Always let me know why you missed an exam!

HOMEWORK

CLASS GOOGLE DOCS: If you are called on in class to analyze or translate a phrase in the reading or suffix sheets, you are responsible for providing the analysis and translation of that phrase on the google doc for that text before the next class. To get full credit for google docs, you need to keep up, and no credit will be given after the deadline for each reading (the class before the exam).

CLASS DROPBOX

Class Email: 29050-F17@classes.uci.edu

Email archive: https://eee.uci.edu/classmail/F17/29050/

COURSE OUTLINE AND ASSIGNMENTS:

Intro

F 9/29

1) READ: Classical Japanese (CJ) pp. 24-49 on inflected (conjugated) forms and verbal types (see also CJ pp. 325-338)

2) If you do not know basic grammar terms, read CJ pp. 11-17.

M 10/2

1) Classical Orthography (writing and pronunciation)
READ: CJ pp. 18-23
READ: Reading Packet 1 (RP 1) pp. 5-7 "Orthography"
S
ee also practice page CJ p. 411

2) Verbs (yodan, nahen, sahen)
READ: RP 1 pp. 1-4 "The Nine Verbal Types"
TRY TO DO: Packet 1 pp. 7-9 Verb Conjugation Exercises

3) The Function of Conjugations in Classical Japanese
READ: RP 1 p. 14 “The Function of Conjugations”
READ: CJ pp. 24-25, 325-38

W 10/4

QUIZ 1: yodan, nahen, rahen verbs

1) Verbs (kami 1-2, shimo 1-2, kahen, sahen)
DO: Verb Conjugation exercises (RP 1 pp. 10-13)

2) Auxiliary Verbs or Suffixes (jodōshi助動詞)
READ: CJ p. 14-15 on auxiliary verbs

F 10/6

QUIZ 2: kami 1-2, shimo 1-2, kahen, sahen verbs

Adjectives (keiyōshi 形容詞)
1) READ: CJ  pp. 50-56 on adjectives
2) DO:  ku/shiku/kari adjective conjugation exercises (RP 1 pp. 15-18)
3) DO: Worksheet 1 (RP 1 p. 22)

M 10/9

QUIZ 3: the function of conjugations (memorize “The Function of Conjugations” in Reading Packet 1!)

1) Intro to materials on Hōjōki 方丈記
READ: RP 2: start looking over the Hōjōki materials

2) Analyzing verb + suffix phrases
DO: Worksheet 2 (RP 1 pp. 23-24)

W 10/11
Hōjōki

方丈記

 

BRING A LAPTOP OR TABLET TO CLASS IF YOU CAN

1) READ: RP 2: Intro to Hōjōki ("Kamo no Chōmei…") and the reading questions.
2) Familiarize yourself with "Abbreviations used in Hōjōki text"

3) Do Hōjōki suffix worsheet: zu/zari (you'll also want to find the meaning of shite)
4) Read, analyze, and translate the first line of Hōjōki:

ゆく河の流れは絶えずして、しかももとの水にあらず。

 

F 10/13 1) DO: RP 2: suffix (auxiliary verb) worksheets for Hōjōki through gotoshi
2) READ first paragraph of Hōjōki (be prepared to analyze and translate)
M 10/16

QUIZ 4: adjectives (keiyōshi 形容詞)

Hōjōki 方丈記
1) DO: RP 2 suffix (auxilliary verb) worksheets for Hōjōki through nu

W 10/18

Hōjōki 方丈記
1) Continue reading.
2) Google docs for suffix worksheets through nu

F 10/20

Hōjōki
1) Continue reading
2) Google docs for Hōjōki

Adjectival verbs (keiyōdōshi形容動詞)
1) READ: CJ pp. 57-63 (on adjectival verbs)
2) READ RP 1 pp. 19 “Nari and Tari Adjectival Verbs”
3) DO RP 1 pp. 20-21 adjectival verb conjugation exercises

M 10/23 Hōjōki 方丈記
W 10/25

QUIZ 5: Adjectival Verbs (形容動詞)

1) FINISH Hōjōki

2) RP 1 Worksheet 3 on zu/nu

F 10/27

Hōjōki方丈記

Midterm 1 prep
1) DO: translate text into English and upload it to drop box by Thursday 10/26 at 9 pm. Be sure to mark the parallels and contrasts used to structure argument.
2) REVIEW: thematic questions, including structure of the text
3) All google docs must be completed by classtime to get credit.

M 10/30

MIDTERM 1

MIDTERM 1

W 11/1

Makura no sōshi
枕草子

枕草子
1) READ: intro material and first two paragraphs of Makura no sōshi
(RP 2)

2) make sure you look up datsu, uchi, and nado in Classical Japanese

F 11/3

 


 

枕草子
1) DO: suffix worksheets for tote, beshi (RP 2
)
2) CONTINUE: "Haru wa akebono"

 

M 11/6


枕草子
1) FINISH: "Haru wa Akebono"
2) Google docs deadline for suffix worksheets, tote, beshi

W 11/8

 

枕草子
1) DO: Suffix sheets mu through ramu
2) BEGIN: “Omohamu ko”
3) Google docs deadline for "Haru wa Akebono."

 

F 11/10

 

VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY

 

M 11/13

枕草子
1) FINISH: “Omohamu ko”
2) Google docs for worksheets through ramu

W 11/15

 

枕草子
1) Prep Midterm 2
2) Google docs for "Omohamu ko" deadline.

 

F 11/17

NO CLASS

M 11/20

MIDTERM 2

W 11/22

 

NO CLASS

F 11/24

 

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 

Uji Shûi monogatari
宇治拾遺物語

M 11/27

宇治拾遺物語
1) READ: intro material (RP 2)
2) READ: first page of "Ebutsushi Yoshihide"
3) DO: Uji Shûi monogatari suffix worksheet for su/sasu

W 11/29

宇治拾遺物語
1) READ: continue "Ebutsushi Yoshihide"
2) DO: suffix worksheet for namu
3) LOOK UP: any particles that you see in the reading (eg. ka, kana, zo, yo, koso etc.) and be prepared to explain them in class

 

F 12/1 宇治拾遺物語
1) FINISH: "Ebutsushi Yoshihide"
M 12/4

宇治拾遺物語
1) DO: the last two suffixes on the worksheets
2) BEGIN: "Nochi no Senkin"  (we will move quickly!) 

W 12/6

宇治拾遺物語

1) CONTINUE: "Nochi no Senkin"

2) Finish any google docs for Uji shui monogatari

F 12/8

宇治拾遺物語

1) FINISH "Nochi no Senkin"
2) Google docs deadline
3) Final Prep

Mon or Tuesday
Finals week

Review Session

FINAL: Wednesday December 13th 1:30-3:30