This activity is based off of another activity here on ALTopedia (link to the og: https://www.altopedia.net/activities/5319-uk-school-rules-quiz and the og creator is @lianneinjapan) and I changed it a little bit to adapt to the USA school rules. I also had a worsheet in which I included all of the statements from the powerpoint and made a little game out of it where they guess if the staments are true or false. If they guess correctly they get one point and if wrong zero points. And on second side of the worksheet the students will now write three sentences based on Japanese school and cultural rules. After they write their sentences they would interview each other using the sentences they just wrote. Finally if time I would have some students share what they wrote and I would guess if it was true or false. Overall a lot of fun and great culture exchange. (The grammar focuses on New Horizons 2 pg. 59)
*I am aware some of my fellow Americans had a different expereince in American schools. So feel free to edit it to your own American school experiences as I made these slides based on my own experiences of going to the schools I went to in America growing up.
Uh, no, you don't have to study French or Spanish. Even having a foreign language requirment isn't universal. American schools don't work like that. And other languages like German, Chiense, and Japanese are likely to be available in the majority of schools.
some of your slides are not true in all schools. Some schools from k to 12 require uniforms. Indoor shoes are requied in areas that have snowy and rainy reasons. There too many genralizations that are not accurate.
This is cute! I know I was telling students how it was for me when I went to school and they always find it so crazy. Things as simple as bringing your own lunch to school is seen as crazy for my students! I always find it interesting too that school life is so different even in different states.
At my school in Texas, because I grew up in a farming town, Agriculture was a mandatory class in both middle school and high school while foreign language was voluntary and only if you wanted to. Thank you for giving a nice template!
@jbjoker2 That is defenitly interesting! As in my school district in Missouri, I was required to take two years of a foreign language and no argiculutre classes but I would of loved to take one because it sounds interesting! Also I did not know schools in Texas (farming) towns tought agriculture as a required course! Very interesting to learn ^_^! Every state and district in America is truly unique which I find to be great! And also great that we get the opportunity to share that with many students here in Japan!
I see you copied my UK School Rules PPT, glad it was helpful for you. However, all the pictures I used were specifically for the UK, so some of them are inaccurate for America. Example: the train picture is a Southern Rail train where I live in the UK, you don't have these in America. I also don't know if you have the silent carriages like we do. Best to change it to something appropriate for America.
Should credit @lianneinjapan for their original work.
Everyone in the comments should relax. Thanks for the American edition! Really appreciate it!
@mweber You're welcome ^_^ !