Curriculum:
Essential Questions for Japanese

Grade 6: How is learning a foreign language
like playing a game or solving a puzzle?

Let's go!
- What do you need to decode or understand when you arrive in a foreign country?

Let's eat!
- The when, how, and what of foods and eating in the foreign country

Let's play!
- What pastimes are typical and how do they compare to ours?
- What are our daily routines and how do they compare to those of Japanese people?

Let's travel and visit!
- What are some of the important sights and cities of Japan?
- What are the similarities/differences between Long Island Sound and Seto Naikai?

Japan & Latin America!
- What connections can be made between Japanese and Latinos?
- Why did Japanese emigrate from Japan?
- Why did Japanese immigrate to Latin America?