JFMF Teacher Overview DVD Series
JFMF TEACHER OVERVIEW DVD SERIES
DVD#1: JFMF OVERVIEW FOR GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
DVD#2: JFMF OVERVIEW FOR MUSIC TEACHERS
DVD#3: JFMF OVERVIEW FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS
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These three DVDs are tailor-made to provide three specific groups of teachers (General Education teachers, Music teachers, and Foreign Language teachers) with an overview of the Fulbright Memorial Fund experience and of the Japanese educational system. A special chapter summary feature is added for easier access to applicable footage in the classroom.
All three DVDs contain the following core material in addition to material specific to each discipline:
• Overview of the Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program.
• Johoku Elementary School video highlights include: The whole school singing the school song at an assembly; 4th graders singing and playing “Puff the Magic Dragon” on recorder; Students and staff cleaning and gardening (since there are no custodians); Students serving each other lunch; 4th grade students reading the “Momotaro” or “Peach Boy” story in Japanese; and a variety academic lessons.
• Kita Junior High School video footage includes a collage of classes in session, and a sectional rehearsal of the junior high chorus.
• Higashi High School video footage highlights include: Clean-up duty; A marching band competition taking place on a stage; Japanese traditional archery and martial arts in school; A performance of a student-written dialogue in English on nuclear proliferation; A collage of classes in session, and a HS boy reading a page from the Nutcracker in Japanese during passing time, while his friends act silly for the camera behind him.
• Kabuki and Kyogen: Mark Oshima describes Kabuki music and the shamisen, followed by a Kabuki dancer performing in costume to the accompaniment of the shamisen and male voice. Don Kenny performs a traditional Kyogen monologue in English.
• Taiko Drumming In-service: Students ages 6-18 and a parent at the American Embassy School in Tokyo performs one Taiko drumming selection. Part of a drumming lesson on the song “Storm Mountain” is shown, and then the instructor performs a teaching video of that song.
DVD CATALOG
JFMF TEACHER OVERVIEW SERIES DVD#1:
JFMF OVERVIEW FOR GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
This DVD contains the core material listed above, as well as additional taiko
drumming footage.
Languages Spoken: Mostly English; Some Japanese
November 2004
82 min.
JFMF TEACHER OVERVIEW SERIES DVD#2:
JFMF OVERVIEW FOR MUSIC TEACHERS
This DVD contains the core material listed above, as well as additional taiko
drumming and music education footage.
Languages Spoken: Mostly English; Some Japanese
November 2004
87 min
JFMF TEACHER OVERVIEW SERIES DVD#3:
JFMF OVERVIEW FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS
This DVD contains the core material listed above, as well as additional footage of
four high school English classes.
Languages Spoken: Mostly English; Some Japanese
November 2004
117 min
DVD CONTENT SUMMARIES
JFMF TEACHER OVERVIEW SERIES DVD#1:
JFMF OVERVIEW FOR GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
FMF OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 1: FMF OVERVIEW
Lectures and presentations (6 days)
School Visits (4 days)
Meetings with PTO, teacher training center, a university, mayor, etc
(1.5 days)
Visiting local industries (1.25 days)
Sightseeing (2days)
Cultural experiences: tea ceremony, Kabuki, Kyogen, reflexology garden
(1 day)
Traditional Japanese Food (6 times); 2 amazing buffets;
Breakfast buffet; $25.00 dinner/$15.00 lunch allowance
Ryokan and its hot spring (1 day)
Host family stay (2 days)
Free Days (2 days)
Travel to Japan or within Japan (4days)
KAKEGAWA CITY JOHOKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHAPTER 2: JOHOKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students arriving in the morning; Brief glimpse of the slippers for guests to change into as they enter the school and the special bathroom slippers; Japanese-style toilet;
CHAPTER 3: MORNING MUSIC
“Country Roads” playing in the background in English while I show “Ikebana” (traditional Japanese flower arranging); American teachers receiving tea before the start of the meeting; The vice principal introducing the school.
CHAPTER 4: ANTSY KIDS
Teacher interest: Introducing ourselves in Japanese (we must have done this at least 7 or 8 times); Students waiting to begin singing the school song.
CHAPTER 5: SCHOOL SONG
The 610 students in the elementary school sing their school song for us.
CHAPTER 6: GREETINGS
Teacher interest: Notice the formality of their greeting, and the use of the same format as in Japanese adult meetings. Notice also the student behavior while this is happening. (Not shown on this clip: each of the 40 students came up and introduced themselves to me in English.)
CHAPTER 7: PUFF PERFORMANCE
A Japanese 4th grade class performs “Puff the Magic Dragon” for me on recorder, and singing in both Japanese and English.
CHAPTER 8: DODGEBALL
The 4th graders invite me to play, and then get me out right away.
CHAPTER 9: CALLIGRAPHY LESSON
4th grade students practice the calligraphy for “lotus.” (The total length of this lesson was 40 min.)
CHAPTER 10: READING LESSON
4th grade students practice oral reading. (The total length of this lesson was 25 min.)
CHAPTER 11: BOWING
Japanese students bow at the beginning and end of each class, asking the teacher to please teach them, and then thanking the teacher for having taught them.
CHAPTER 12: LUNCHTIME
Students don aprons, masks and hats and serve each other lunch; Cute kids in the camera; Students rearrange the desks and eat lunch in the classroom; Clean-up
CHAPTER 13: READING MOMOTARO
Several 4th grade students read the “Peach Boy” story on camera in Japanese.
CHAPTER 14: CLEAN-UP TIME
There are no custodians in Japanese schools. Students and staff clean up and garden themselves. Students are shown sweeping, scrubbing, gardening, etc, and the principal is shown sweeping the hall.
CHAPTER 15: COLLAGE OF CLASSES
Stereotype buster: Brief glimpses of 1st grade classes doing math, art, and Japanese, and a 1st grader trying to get me to let him touch the camera.
CHAPTER 16: RHYTHM LESSON
There are no Elementary Music Specialists in Japan. The regular classroom teachers go to one of the two music rooms in this school and teach music themselves. This is the direct instruction portion of a 4th grade rhythm lesson, followed by group rhythm work, groups performances, and group rhythm work with classroom percussion instruments.
KAKEGAWA CITY KITA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CHAPTER 17: JUNIOR HIGH COLLAGE OF CLASSES
JH students bowing at the end of a class; Students in math, Japanese, knitting, science and English classes. Notice the student behavior and the instructional method of choice.
CHAPTER 18: JH CHORUS
Girls and boys are separated for individual practice on a song.
SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL KAKEGAWA HIGASHI
HIGH SCHOOL
CHAPTER 19: HIGH SCHOOL INTRO
Sts. walking down the hall (In the HS it’s actually the teachers who switch classrooms instead of the students); HS students doing clean-up duty; Bathroom slippers; Despite the huge focus on PE, there are no locker rooms. This chapter shows a boy changing his clothes in the classroom in front of girls.
CHAPTER 20: ARCHERY
Traditional Japanese archery for girls. This archery is rooted in Zen Buddhism; so I left a whole archery cycle for you to see this for yourself.
CHAPTER 21: TEA CEREMONY ROOM
There are special tatami mat rooms in the high school to teach both the tea ceremony and how to play the koto.
CHAPTER 22: SPORTS IN SCHOOL
Martial arts are required for boys in HS; Karate and Kendo; Soccer; Volleyball; Baseball. (Not shown: Table tennis is also big; it has a small building of its own.)
CHAPTER 23: NURSING SCHOOL
Nursing students receive academic instruction and practical experience in public HS.
CHAPTER 24: HS GENERAL MUSIC
This is it for HS music instruction during the school day. Instrumentation: Keyboards, guitar, xylophones, drum set.
CHAPTER 25: AFTER SCHOOL MUSIC
Teacher interest: After school is when the real music instruction takes place, including orchestra, brass band, concert band, and individual instruction. Part of a conversation with the band director.
CHAPTER 26: MARCHING STAGE
Since they don’t have football fields in Japan, they do marching band competition on a stage. Part of the marching band’s performance of the West Side Story medley is included, as well as a clip of their concert band competition performance.
CHAPTER 27: HS COLLAGE OF CLASSES
Japanese history, math, biology and 3 English classes are briefly shown. Notice the student behavior and the instructional method of choice.
CHAPTER 28: DIALOGUE IN ENGLISH
Two HS girls perform a dialogue in English about nuclear proliferation and the unique role that Japan has in the world since they are the only country to have ever had the bomb dropped on them. The HS students wrote the dialogue themselves.
Missing in Menu! CHAPTER 29: HS KIDS WITH PERSONALITY
Boys being goofy between classes; Girls reading a page from The Three Little Pigs in Japanese
Missing in Menu! CHAPTER 30: NUTCRACKER READING
A HS boy agrees to read a page from the Nutcracker book in Japanese while his friends goof off for the camera behind him.
KABUKI AND KYOGEN
CHAPTER 31: KABUKI MUSIC
Teacher interest: Part of a lecture by Mark Oshima about the lyrical and narrative styles Kabuki music with examples and visuals; Explaining the different types of shamisen; Demonstration of the shamisen.
CHAPTER 32: KABUKI PERFORMANCE
A Kabuki dancer in costume performs to the accompaniment of the shamisen and male voice.
Missing in Menu! CHAPTER 33: KYOGEN PERFORMANCE
Don Kenny performs a traditional Japanese Kyogen monologue, “The Sightseer,” in English.
TAIKO DRUMMING LESSON AND INSERVICE
CHAPTER 34: RUNNING HORSE
A class of students, ages 6-18 (plus a parent), at the American Embassy School in Tokyo perform a song entitled “Running Horse”
CHAPTER 35: DRAGON VS TIGER
The same class rearranges the drums and plays another selection.
CHAPTER 36: STUDENT LESSON
This clip shows the students and some of the American teachers as they are receiving a lesson on the taiko drum selection: Storm Mountain.
CHAPTER 40: STORM MOUNTAIN
The instructor and two students perform “Storm Mountain” for the camera, with the purpose of it being used to teach a class how to play the piece themselves.
JFMF TEACHER OVERVIEW SERIES DVD#2:
JFMF OVERVIEW FOR MUSIC TEACHERS
FMF OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 1: FMF OVERVIEW
Lectures and presentations (6 days)
School Visits (4 days)
Meetings with PTO, teacher training center, a university, mayor, etc
(1.5 days)
Visiting local industries (1.25 days)
Sightseeing (2days)
Cultural experiences: tea ceremony, Kabuki, Kyogen, reflexology garden
(1 day)
Traditional Japanese Food (6 times); 2 amazing buffets;
Breakfast buffet; $25.00 dinner/$15.00 lunch allowance
Ryokan and its hot spring (1 day)
Host family stay (2 days)
Free Days (2 days)
Travel to Japan or within Japan (4days)
CHAPTER 2: CULTURE IN THE CURRICULUM
There are special tatami mat rooms in the high school to teach both the tea ceremony and how to play the koto.
KAKEGAWA CITY JOHOKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHAPTER 3: JOHOKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students arriving in the morning; Brief glimpse of the slippers for guests to change into as they enter the school and the special bathroom slippers; Japanese-style toilet;
CHAPTER 4: MORNING MUSIC
“Country Roads” playing in the background in English while I show “Ikebana” (traditional Japanese flower arranging); American teachers receiving tea before the start of the meeting; The vice principal introducing the school.
CHAPTER 5: ANTSY KIDS
Teacher interest: Introducing ourselves in Japanese (we must have done this at least 7 or 8 times); Students waiting to begin singing the school song.
CHAPTER 6: SCHOOL SONG
The 610 students in the elementary school sing their school song for us.
CHAPTER 7: MAX PLAYS THE SAW
An American art teacher plays “Country Roads” on the saw he brought from the US.
CHAPTER 8: GREETINGS
Teacher interest: Notice the formality of their greeting, and the use of the same format as in Japanese adult meetings. Notice also the student behavior while this is happening. (Not shown on this clip: each of the 40 students came up and introduced themselves to me in English.)
CHAPTER 9: PUFF PERFORMANCE
A Japanese 4th grade class performs “Puff the Magic Dragon” for me on recorder, and singing in both Japanese and English.
CHAPTER 10: DODGEBALL
The 4th graders invite me to play, and then get me out right away.
CHAPTER 11: CALLIGRAPHY LESSON
4th grade students practice the calligraphy for “lotus.” (The total length of this lesson was 40 min.)
CHAPTER 12: READING LESSON
4th grade students practice oral reading. (The total length of this lesson was 25 min.)
CHAPTER 13: BOWING
Japanese students bow at the beginning and end of each class, asking the teacher to please teach them, and then thanking the teacher for having taught them.
CHAPTER 14: LUNCHTIME
Students don aprons, masks and hats and serve each other lunch; Cute kids in the camera; Students rearrange the desks and eat lunch in the classroom; Clean-up
CHAPTER 15: READING MOMOTARO
Several 4th grade students read the “Peach Boy” story on camera in Japanese.
CHAPTER 16: CLEAN-UP TIME
There are no custodians in Japanese schools. Students and staff clean up and garden themselves. Students are shown sweeping, scrubbing, gardening, etc, and the principal is shown sweeping the hall.
CHAPTER 17: COLLAGE OF CLASSES
Stereotype buster: Brief glimpses of 1st grade classes doing math, art, and Japanese, and a 1st grader trying to get me to let him touch the camera.
CHAPTER 18: RHYTHM LESSON
There are no Elementary Music Specialists in Japan. The regular classroom teachers go to one of the two music rooms in this school and teach music themselves. This is the direct instruction portion of a 4th grade rhythm lesson.
Missing in Menu! CHAPTER 19: GROUP RHYTHM WORK
Teacher interest: Students spread out and practiced rhythms in groups while the teacher got out instruments. This went on for 15 min.
CHAPTER 20: GROUPS PERFORM
Individual groups perform the rhythms, after which they run and get instruments.
CHAPTER 21: GROUP WORK WITH INSTRUMENTS
Teacher interest: Groups practice the rhythms with instruments until the end of the hour.
KAKEGAWA CITY KITA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CHAPTER 22: JUNIOR HIGH COLLAGE OF CLASSES
JH students bowing at the end of a class; Students in math, Japanese, knitting, science and English classes. Notice the student behavior and the instructional method of choice.
CHAPTER 23: JH CHORUS
Girls and boys are separated for individual practice on a song.
SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL KAKEGAWA HIGASHI
HIGH SCHOOL
CHAPTER 24: HIGH SCHOOL INTRO
Sts. walking down the hall (In the HS it’s actually the teachers who switch classrooms instead of the students); HS students doing clean-up duty; Bathroom slippers; Despite the huge focus on PE, there are no locker rooms. This chapter shows a boy changing his clothes in the classroom in front of girls.
CHAPTER 25: ARCHERY
Traditional Japanese archery for girls. This archery is rooted in Zen Buddhism; so I left a whole archery cycle for you to see this for yourself.
CHAPTER 26: SPORTS IN SCHOOL
Martial arts are required for boys in HS; Karate and Kendo; Soccer; Volleyball; Baseball. (Not shown: Table tennis is also big; it has a small building of its own.)
CHAPTER 27: NURSING SCHOOL
Nursing students receive academic instruction and practical experience in public HS.
CHAPTER 28: HS GENERAL MUSIC
This is it for HS music instruction during the school day. Instrumentation: Keyboards, guitar, xylophones, drum set.
CHAPTER 29: AFTER SCHOOL MUSIC
Teacher interest: After school is when the real music instruction takes place, including orchestra, brass band, concert band, and individual instruction. Part of a conversation with the band director.
CHAPTER 30: MARCHING STAGE
Since they don’t have football fields in Japan, they do marching band competition on a stage. Part of the marching band’s performance of the West Side Story medley is included, as well as a clip of their concert band competition performance.
CHAPTER 31: HS COLLAGE OF CLASSES
Japanese history, math, biology and 3 English classes are briefly shown. Notice the student behavior and the instructional method of choice.
CHAPTER 32: DIALOGUE IN ENGLISH
Two HS girls perform a dialogue in English about nuclear proliferation and the unique role that Japan has in the world since they are the only country to have ever had the bomb dropped on them. The HS students wrote the dialogue themselves.
CHAPTER 33: HS KIDS WITH PERSONALITY
Boys being goofy between classes; Girls reading a page from The Three Little Pigs in Japanese
**CHAPTER 34: NUTCRACKER READING
A HS boy agrees to read a page from the Nutcracker book in Japanese while his friends goof off for the camera behind him.
KABUKI AND KYOGEN
CHAPTER 35: KABUKI MUSIC
Teacher interest: Part of a lecture by Mark Oshima about the lyrical and narrative styles Kabuki music with examples and visuals; Explaining the different types of shamisen; Demonstration of the shamisen.
CHAPTER 36: KABUKI PERFORMANCE
A Kabuki dancer in costume performs to the accompaniment of the shamisen and male voice.
Missing in Menu! CHAPTER 37: KYOGEN PERFORMANCE
Don Kenny performs a traditional Japanese Kyogen monologue, “The Sightseer,” in English.
TAIKO DRUMMING LESSON AND INSERVICE
CHAPTER 38: RUNNING HORSE
A class of students, ages 6-18 (plus a parent), at the American Embassy School in Tokyo perform a song entitled “Running Horse”
CHAPTER 37: DRAGON VS TIGER
The same class rearranges the drums and plays another selection.
CHAPTER 38: DRUM MACHINE
Two high school students, two parents and the instructor perform a more difficult selection.
CHAPTER 39: STUDENTS LESSON
This clip shows the students and some of the American teachers as they are receiving a lesson on the taiko drum selection: Storm Mountain.
CHAPTER 40: STORM MOUNTAIN
The instructor and two students perform “Storm Mountain” for the camera, with the purpose of it being used to teach a class how to play the piece themselves.
JFMF TEACHER OVERVIEW SERIES DVD#3:
JFMF OVERVIEW FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS
FMF OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 1: FMF OVERVIEW
Lectures and presentations (6 days)
School Visits (4 days)
Meetings with PTO, teacher training center, a university, mayor, etc
(1.5 days)
Visiting local industries (1.25 days)
Sightseeing (2days)
Cultural experiences: tea ceremony, Kabuki, Kyogen, reflexology garden
(1 day)
Traditional Japanese Food (6 times); 2 amazing buffets;
Breakfast buffet; $25.00 dinner/$15.00 lunch allowance
Ryokan and its hot spring (1 day)
Host family stay (2 days)
Free Days (2 days)
Travel to Japan or within Japan (4days)
KAKEGAWA CITY JOHOKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHAPTER 2: JOHOKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students arriving in the morning; Brief glimpse of the slippers for guests to change into as they enter the school and the special bathroom slippers; Japanese-style toilet;
CHAPTER 3: MORNING MUSIC
“Country Roads” playing in the background in English while I show “Ikebana” (traditional Japanese flower arranging); American teachers receiving tea before the start of the meeting; The vice principal introducing the school.
CHAPTER 4: ANTSY KIDS
Teacher interest: Introducing ourselves in Japanese (we must have done this at least 7 or 8 times); Students waiting to begin singing the school song.
CHAPTER 5: SCHOOL SONG
The 610 students in the elementary school sing their school song for us.
CHAPTER 6: GREETINGS
Teacher interest: Notice the formality of their greeting, and the use of the same format as in Japanese adult meetings. Notice also the student behavior while this is happening. (Not shown on this clip: each of the 40 students came up and introduced themselves to me in English.)
CHAPTER 7: PUFF PERFORMANCE
A Japanese 4th grade class performs “Puff the Magic Dragon” for me on recorder, and singing in both Japanese and English.
CHAPTER 8: DODGEBALL
The 4th graders invite me to play, and then get me out right away.
CHAPTER 9: CALLIGRAPHY LESSON
4th grade students practice the calligraphy for “lotus.” (The total length of this lesson was 40 min.)
CHAPTER 19: READING LESSON
4th grade students practice oral reading. (The total length of this lesson was 25 min.)
CHAPTER 11: BOWING
Japanese students bow at the beginning and end of each class, asking the teacher to please teach them, and then thanking the teacher for having taught them.
CHAPTER 12: LUNCHTIME
Students don aprons, masks and hats and serve each other lunch; Cute kids in the camera; Students rearrange the desks and eat lunch in the classroom; Clean-up
CHAPTER 13: READING MOMOTARO
Several 4th grade students read the “Peach Boy” story on camera in Japanese.
CHAPTER 14: CLEAN-UP TIME
There are no custodians in Japanese schools. Students and staff clean up and garden themselves. Students are shown sweeping, scrubbing, gardening, etc, and the principal is shown sweeping the hall.
CHAPTER 15: COLLAGE OF CLASSES
Stereotype buster: Brief glimpses of 1st grade classes doing math, art, and Japanese, and a 1st grader trying to get me to let him touch the camera.
CHAPTER 16: RHYTHM LESSON
There are no Elementary Music Specialists in Japan. The regular classroom teachers go to one of the two music rooms in this school and teach music themselves. This is the direct instruction portion of a 4th grade rhythm lesson, followed by group rhythm work, groups performances, and group rhythm work with classroom percussion instruments.
KAKEGAWA CITY KITA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
CHAPTER 17: JUNIOR HIGH COLLAGE OF CLASSES
JH students bowing at the end of a class; Students in math, Japanese, knitting, science and English classes; JH chorus sectional rehearsal; Notice the student behavior and the instructional method of choice.
SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL KAKEGAWA HIGASHI
HIGH SCHOOL
CHAPTER 18: HIGH SCHOOL INTRO
Sts. walking down the hall (In the HS it’s actually the teachers who switch classrooms instead of the students); HS students doing clean-up duty; Bathroom slippers; Despite the huge focus on PE, there are no locker rooms. This chapter shows a boy changing his clothes in the classroom in front of girls.
CHAPTER 19: ARCHERY
Traditional Japanese archery for girls. This archery is rooted in Zen Buddhism; so I left a whole archery cycle for you to see this for yourself.
CHAPTER 20: SPORTS IN SCHOOL
Martial arts are required for boys in HS; Karate and Kendo; Soccer; Volleyball; Baseball. (Not shown: Table tennis is also big; it has a small building of its own.)
CHAPTER 21: TEA CEREMONY ROOM
There are special tatami mat rooms in the high school to teach both the tea ceremony and how to play the koto.
CHAPTER 22: NURSING SCHOOL
Nursing students receive academic instruction and practical experience in public HS.
CHAPTER 23: HS GENERAL MUSIC
This is it for HS music instruction during the school day. Instrumentation: Keyboards, guitar, xylophones, drum set.
CHAPTER 24: AFTER SCHOOL MUSIC
Teacher interest: After school is when the real music instruction takes place, including orchestra, brass band, concert band, and individual instruction. Part of a conversation with the band director.
CHAPTER 25: MARCHING STAGE
Since they don’t have football fields in Japan, they do marching band competition on a stage. Part of the marching band’s performance of the West Side Story medley is included, as well as a clip of their concert band competition performance.
CHAPTER 26: HS COLLAGE OF CLASSES
Japanese history, math, biology and 3 English classes are briefly shown. Notice the student behavior and the instructional method of choice.
**CHAPTERS 27-30: HS ENGLISH CLASSES
I taped as much footage as I could get of HS English as a Foreign Language classes in session. Please note the teaching/learning styles and class sizes, and then consider that just about every bell boy and taxi driver speaks English, and consider the student-written dialogue below.
CHAPTER 27: (4min, 40sec) SENIOR ENGLISH CLASS
CHAPTER 28 (3min, 49sec) SENIOR ENGLISH CLASS
CHAPTER 29: (10min, 24sec) ENGLISH CLASS
CHAPTER 30: (22min, 08sec) ENGLISH CLASS
CHAPTER 31: DIALOGUE IN ENGLISH
Two HS girls perform a dialogue in English about nuclear proliferation and the unique role that Japan has in the world since they are the only country to have ever had the bomb dropped on them. The HS students wrote the dialogue themselves.
CHAPTER 32: HS KIDS WITH PERSONALITY
Boys being goofy between classes; Girls reading a page from The Three Little Pigs in Japanese
**CHAPTER 33: NUTCRACKER READING
A HS boy agrees to read a page from the Nutcracker book in Japanese while his friends goof off for the camera behind him.
KABUKI AND KYOGEN
CHAPTER 34: KABUKI MUSIC
Teacher interest: Part of a lecture by Mark Oshima about the lyrical and narrative styles Kabuki music with examples and visuals; Explaining the different types of shamisen; Demonstration of the shamisen.
CHAPTER 35: KABUKI PERFORMANCE
A Kabuki dancer in costume performs to the accompaniment of the shamisen and male voice.
Missing in Menu! CHAPTER 36: KYOGEN PERFORMANCE
Don Kenny performs a traditional Japanese Kyogen monologue, “The Sightseer,” in English.
TAIKO DRUMMING LESSON AND INSERVICE
CHAPTER 37: RUNNING HORSE
A class of students, ages 6-18 (plus a parent), at the American Embassy School in Tokyo perform a song entitled “Running Horse”
CHAPTER 38: STUDENTS LESSON
This clip shows the students and some of the American teachers as they are receiving a lesson on the taiko drum selection: Storm Mountain.
CHAPTER 39: STORM MOUNTAIN
The instructor and two students perform “Storm Mountain” for the camera, with the purpose of it being used to teach a class how to play the piece themselves.
