Curriculum:
Essential Questions for Japanese

Grade 5: What makes Japan Japan? What makes the U.S. the U.S.?

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Me
- What are my daily routines?
- How do I express these in writing?

Family
- Where do I come from?
- Where do Japanese people come from?

School & Community
- What is my community like?
- What do I call buildings in my community?

World
- What do we call continents and countries?
- Who has immigrated to Japan? Where do they live? Where have Japanese immigrated?

Writing Systems
- How do we write sentences?
- What are the different ways to write paragraphs?
- Why do Japanese people write vertically?
- Why do they start on the right side of the page?

Curricular Units

Geography