https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2 Collection of everything learned in the Ibaraki American Culture Workshop en-us 2022-02-14 22:22:19 UTC 2022-03-27 07:31:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f985.png https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047381518 1. Learn English by memorizing phrases
2. Ask questions
3. Discuss with other students and other English Speakers
4. Try to understand
5. Listen to Native Speakers' English
6. Listen, listen, and listen
7. Read, read, and read
8. Before class, prepare notes, research before meeting someone
9. Look at the Workshop Page
10. Look up words like BLM and LGBTQ before class
11. During, take notes, review the notes, and watch videos again

]]> 2022-02-14 23:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047381518 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047388868 2022-02-14 23:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047388868 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047391383 Hello. My name is Taiyo. I live in Mito, Ibaraki. I like to play a drum. And I'm interested in music in USA. I want to know about Indians and LGBTQ. So I decided to participate this program. My English level is quite low. But I wish I can do my best.]]> 2022-02-14 23:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047391383 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047652244 Today we learned how students learn English and teachers should teach English. As a English learner we should produce English. It means we should write or speak. And when we speak English, we feel scared, embarrassed or bad emotion. So teachers should tell students not to scare mistakes. Mistakes are important. Next, we should use language. Not practice language. In other words, students should solve a problem using English. Just practicing is not effective way to learn English. And to motivate students, teachers should set easy and exciting tasks. Game is one of the good example of this. Lastly, we should learn or teach English with someone. Studying alone is good, but speaking with someone is more effective way.]]> 2022-02-15 03:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047652244 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047657468 2022-02-15 03:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047657468 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047662800 2022-02-15 03:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2047662800 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2050082771 This video is about a man who married one woman. In 1998, he and his wife thought that they should divorce. They lived in California and in California, a husband and his wife had to live separated for an year before divorce. So he traveled to think more about himself as a gay. While this travel, he put a rainbow stripe sticker on the back of his car. Sometimes, people gave him a honk or nod as they see that sticker. It means "You're not alone. You're in the same community with us." That encouraged him to tell that he is a gay to his family, friend and his wife. He and his wife talked about their future, and decided to live separated to be happy. Now he married a man and he was able to be happy. Lastly, he thinks telling about ourselves to people is difficult or it seems it has a high hurdle. But maybe it is not high hurdle as you think.]]> 2022-02-16 04:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2050082771 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2050093981 Today, we learned about LGBTQ+ people. This is the one that I wanted to know about in this program. So today’s lesson was interesting. Firstly, we looked the gender unicorn. By using it, we can figure what we are. And we also watched a video about LGBTQ+. In this video one gay boy struggled to a society. He noticed that LGBTQ+ people are bullied in schools. So he decided to make a community to help LGBTQ+ people. Once it was denied by principal. But he could find an ally. An ally gave him a classroom to make community. So he succeeded to build a community. Lastly, we discussed about LGBTQ+. I learned that in the US, it is super common that there are so many kinds of LGBTQ+ people. But in Japan, we don’t know people like that. I think this comes from Japanese character. However they do exist in Japan too. So we need to be careful about it. Not to hurt them(although I didn’t mean to do so) we should learn about LGBTQ+.]]> 2022-02-16 04:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2050093981 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2050731822 2022-02-16 12:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2050731822 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2052060892  Vanessa told us so many about her movement. One thing is about what she is doing in her organization. She said she and her co-workers make communities which help people who are not majority like black people and LGBTQ+ people. This movement is so important for them because people like that feel not good if they don't belong to any community. So Vanessa and her organization give community to connect people. And secondly, she advised us how to achieve as a teacher. As a teacher, to help minority people, we have to know each other. But, minority and young people don't want to speak first. So, as a teacher, we should expose ourselves first. It will encourage students to speak themselves and know each other.]]> 2022-02-16 23:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2052060892 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2052730853 Today we did mainly two things. One is listening to Vanessa about her movement. And secondly we discussed with Tomoko, Erina and students. First, Vanessa’s story is about helping minority people like LGBTQ people. It was so interesting. She makes communities to help them. Minority people feel not good if there is no community of them. So, to encourage them, she does movement to create a community. Also, she advised us. As a teacher, we should meet a student individually. I think it is important to support them. They don’t want to talk about themselves, so teachers have to make trust from them. This was the thing that I was mots interested in from Vanessa’s story. And secondly, we talked with Tomoko and Erina. They lived in Japan 18 or 20 years ago. From them, we could learn some differences between Japan and America about racism, LGBTQ people and culture. The most interesting thing that I heard from them is about racism. It is sure that not many people in America hate people who is not white. But I had an image that any place include people like that (I know the number of people like thai is not so much). But they taught me not all of the area in America have discriminations. Recently Black lives matter movement is so hot, but the fact is that we don’t have to worry to much about it. This made me comfortable, and I became to want to go to America more!]]> 2022-02-17 08:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2052730853 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2052744394 This is a song sung by The Blue Hearts. The Blue Hearts is a Japanese band that I like so much. This song claims that we shouldn't discrimination. I love this song. And this is the link to lyrics in English: https://lyricstranslate.com/ja/%E9%9D%92%E7%A9%BA-aozoraaoisora.html]]> 2022-02-17 08:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2052744394 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2054878038 Today, we learned about LGBTQ+ from Maggie. Her presentation is mainly about gender. I could know new words and some words more deeply. I was especially interested in Aromantic, Pansexual and Demiromantic. Aromantic is person who isn’t drawn to people romantically. And Pansexual is person who is attracted to all gender. Lastly Demisexual is person who is attracted to emotional connection. And more interesting thing for me was about LGBTQ+’s flag. We looked some flags. One is for lesbians, and the other one is for gays, and the other is for bisexual. I didn’t know the meaning of the rainbow. Today Maggie taught us the meaning of each colors. This was so interesting. And, after listening to Maggie, we talked with students in EWU Pride Center. At this point, I asked one question “Did you see the person who is ally?” And one of them told us about the story about rainbow cake. After telling she is LGBTQ+ person, her grandmother made her a rainbow cake. This story was so heart-warming. And I could know that rainbow means so important for LGBTQ+ people.]]> 2022-02-18 08:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2054878038 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2054941004 I searched about Rainbow flag on the Internet. And I found so many kinds of flags. And we can know that rainbow has changed several times from this picture.]]> 2022-02-18 09:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2054941004 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2054946271 This is the LGBTQ community in Japan. This community works to spread the information about sexual minors. And they worked through 2020 Tokyo Olympics.]]> 2022-02-18 09:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2054946271 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2058463970 Today, firstly we discussed about gender. One of the topic was the differences and similarities between Japan and America. We found one interesting similarity. It was “Some people don’t want women to be a president. In our country, Japan, we haven’t seen a female president. But now, in Tokyo, we have a female mayor named Yuriko Koike. So I think way of thinking is changing. This is good I think because my opinion is that if person have abilities to lead people, he, she or they should be a leader regardless of the person’s gender. Secondly, we learned about Native American. Especially Native Americans live in Plateau. I was surprised that in Plateau, temperature go up to over 100 degrees in summer, and in winter, it goes down to under 0 degrees. This was so surprising to me. They struggled to live I read in the web site. This was so exciting work.]]> 2022-02-21 09:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2058463970 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2058497550 I watched the video of option1. In option one, I could learn about the cultures of Native Americans for example, houses, foods and arts. And I found that there are some kinds of Native Americans. In each area of America, they included one kind of Native Americans. And I thought Native Americans had similar face to Asian. I'm curious about it. Also the video said Native Americans used nature items to live. Furthermore, they made some arts from them like mats and potteries. It was so surprising because they were so beautiful. Today, we learned the cultures of the Native Americans, so now I want to know today's Native Americans in this week's section.]]> 2022-02-21 10:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2058497550 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2058505270 I read the Japanese article. The picture shows Yuriko Koike. She is a mayor of Tokyo. And she succeeded to be a first female mayor. She said female has many problems to demonstrate their ability.]]> 2022-02-21 10:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2058505270 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2059918967 In today’s section, we learned about Native Americans. First, we read an article about Native American’s issues. In this article, we could know many vocabularies. For example, tribe, boundary and sovereignty. These are so important vocabulary to understand about Native Americans. We could hear important words like these after this reading task. So, after reading task, we watched a video that interviewed Native Americans in a festival. In this video, we learned the cultures of Native Americans. The most interesting thing for me was the dream catcher. It looks like spider web, and has a feather. It prevents us from a bad dream. I love it. Lastly, we discussed with volunteers. In this discussion, we watched another video. In this video, one woman said that Native Americans went thorough the bad history. They were discriminated and raped, even killed. I was shocked with that fact. And, water therapy was interesting. They can feel ancestors’ memory or thinking through this therapy. And they can wash away bad things. ]]> 2022-02-22 05:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2059918967 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2059926755 When I see pictures of Native Americans, I always think that Japanese and Native Americans have similar face. So I searched on the Internet. This Japanese article says there are three similarities. They are face, words and way of thinking. But the relationship of Native Americans and Japanese is not discovered yet. I hope we have.]]> 2022-02-22 06:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2059926755 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2059934011 In this video, some Native American girls are answering questions. I could know the word 'red skin'. One girl said that this word is racism. I think so too. And I learned more about Native Americans.]]> 2022-02-22 06:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2059934011 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2061945100 In this section, we did mainly two things. First is talking with BJ Robinson. And the other is reading and watching task about Hispanic. Talking with BJ Robinson was so interesting. He is a teacher of arts and music at the same time, he is a music director. And I asked him a question, “Do you have any specific experiences as music and art teacher?” He answered and told us that experience. The most important thing is that we have to communicate each other. We have to explore our thinking. To understand each other, we have to continue to contact. It was interesting. And then, we read an article and watched a video about Hispanic. And we read a lesson plan. This was also exciting task. In the lesson plan, there was a question. It was “Who is American?” This was so interesting question for me. In the history of America, there were Native Americans. But later, Europeans came to America. Then I learned that Dominicans came to find work. And now, so many Asian people, African people and people from the other area are in America. So, answering this question is so difficult and important. But we have to think to understand each other I believe.]]> 2022-02-23 05:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2061945100 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2061949750 Hello Robinson. It was grate to see you in this program. I had a precious time to talk with you. I have some questions that I couldn't ask you. I'm glad that you will respond my questions.

Questions
1. To understand the other race, what do you think is the most important?
2. Do you have any positive or negative expression as a black person?
3. Is there any movement that claim Asian racism like Black Lives Matter?]]> 2022-02-23 05:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2061949750 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2061958278 In this web site, many individual people answer the question, "What is America?" I think this is similar to "Who is America?" Reading some answers, I came up with an idea. I think everyone can be an American. Of course, in America, there are so many races. But, we cannot say that they are not American because their ancestors are from Europe. It is not true. I think America includes so many races, so accepting other race people is important.]]> 2022-02-23 05:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2061958278 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2064289427 In today’s section, we had a presentation by Dr. Nydia Martinez. Her presentation was about Latin Hispanic. Before today’s section, a knowledge about Hispanic that I had was only that they are the people who are connected to Spain. But I caught many information about them. I was interested in the effect of Hispanic culture to the culture of the U.S. In the U.S, there are more Mexican restaurant than the other restaurant even more than Mac Donald’s. And, moreover, in the area of language, Spanish is the second most common language in the U.S. Like this, Hispanic culture affects largely in America. This is because the Hispanics’ fast increasing of the population Dr. Nydia mentioned. And, we watched the live streaming on YouTube about “The Bluest Eye” written by Toni Morrison. This was so difficult for me. But after that we also watched the movie. In this movie, Toni Morrison was interviewed. I’m not sure whether I could catch the meaning correctly, but I was impressed. She said that recently, in some books, black women were the center of the stories. But they didn’t focus on the black girl. So she decided to put one black girl into the center of her book. Morrison wanted her to be surrounded by people. This was the motivation to write her book she said in the video. I was impressed by her words.]]> 2022-02-24 10:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2064289427 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2064407759 Start of today's section, Dr. Nydia showed us the music of Latin American's music. I love music, so I was interested in that music. I have listened to that music and seen some music instruments in the video before. This video shows Latin American's music instruments. I want to play Cajon! I wish I can play these instruments someday.]]> 2022-02-24 11:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2064407759 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2064412700 In this video, we can learn the difference between Latino and Hispanic. In today's section, I wondered the difference of these two words. And I could find that Latino is a geographical word from this video. And Latino is a name of the race.]]> 2022-02-24 11:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2064412700 https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2065376357 One Black comedian is so popular in Japan. He was interviewed about racism in Japan. We can watch this interview video with Black man. This was so interesting. This man speaks English but we have Japanese subtitles so easy to understand. I highly recommend you to watch.]]> 2022-02-24 21:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kenneth_capps/l60f6o3f34n6lca2/wish/2065376357