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(the title of this wiki:"Japanese old tales") || media type="custom" key="888041" || =Welcome to Nagayamawiki.= You may have learned about many Japanese tales in different subject classes such as English or Social Studies through elementary and middle schools. Japanese old tales/fables contains so many mysteries and wonders that we sometimes become curious to know how the authors in the past were able to come up with these excellent ideas for their stories. Most often we are curious to know what would happen with the story after the ending. I personally love "Bamboo Princess" which sometimes called "The tale of the bamboo cutter" or "Bamboo girl". As a child I felt the powerlessness of the old man and woman who have to watch their beloved little princess taken by the envoys from the moon when even the imperial warriors couldn't protest against them. I often imagined that if the princess was allowed to come back and see her earth parents, she might want to stay on the earth forever. Do you have a favorite story? Have you imagined what would happen to the hero or heroin after the story?
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In this wiki, we are going to learn more details of the five well known Japanese old tales and make our own additional stories to them. In Japanese? Yes, in Japanese of course. Impossible? Yes, it is possible even if you haven't mastered the Japanese language. We are going to learn to compose a story using what we have learned and using new vocabularies as we need them, which is the learning objective for this project. We will work through this together, so don't worry too much. When we complete editing the stories everyone will get to read your creation! Your parents, your siblings and your friends. So let them know about this place when our project is done. It will be fun!

Instructions:
1.You as a group will be assigned to one Japanese tale. 2. Use the link in the appropriate page and read the original story. 3. Do background research about the story using the links provided in the page and/or tools in the cool tool page. 4. Write the report __in English__ in the designated place. 5. Research the era that the story is based on so that you have some idea for cultural and social background of your creation. You can either use the tools in the tool page or go visit [|my furl account] and look under the history topic. 6. Compose in Japanese your version of an extended story to the original tale ( make them fun to read!). 7. During the lab hours or at home type in your story by editing the page. 8. Add footnotes for contents, or proper nouns used in your story for your readers.

Note:
My pick of grammars and vocabularies are in the grammar/vocab page. It can help you compose your story. Remember you can edit your story anytime until the due date.

The five tales:
かぐやひめ (Bamboo Princess)　　きんたろう(Golden Boy)　うらしまたろう(Urashima Taro) ももたろう（Peach Boy)　つるのおんがえし（Crane's Repay)

Learning Objective
Students will learn to express themselves using the limited grammars, and old and new vocabularies and not to do words for words translation. The technique you use for this activity is called free translation.

Rationale:
This activity will help you in a real life situation when you think the word for word translation doesn't help or you feel you don't know the exact phrases for what you want to say. For example: You want to say that you are tired after a long walk but you don't know how to say it exactly. If you can say, "あしが　いたいです” (my feet hurt) then you are successful in expressing your feeling, and more likely you will be offered a seat.

Note:
The instant translation tool can translate only a single word. You can use it to find a new vocabulary or to read the other groups' stories.