Dale Garrard at Centennial High School

live webcast May 2 at lunch
updated May 1, 2013
Find some web access on Thursday, May 2 at lunch and tune in to Centennial students talking about their experiences with the Kizuna Project. This is part of a world-wide "megaconference" involving...
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Karaoke Idol Video Contest!!!
updated February 15, 2012
Click inside on the word KARAOKE to be magically transported to Cheng & Tsui's J-Pop KARAOKE film contest. I'm pretty confident that you guys could win it- all you need to do is sing on key, make...
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Pon Pon Pon!
updated February 15, 2012
Go here to be pwnd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g&ob=av3e
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Hiragana game
updated February 15, 2012
Chy from First year shared this website for working on your kana skilz. If you're a closet non-reader, this might be a good way to study on your own without letting on that you're not already a kana...
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KARAOKE video contest
updated February 7, 2012
Time to whip out a camera and some Japanese singing skills KARAOKE VIDEO CONTEST! Click here, go insidethe article, and click on KARAOKE
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Welcome to the 2011-2012 school year!!!
updated August 27, 2011
I'll be pretty busy this semester. If you need to find me and can't, I'm probably not gone fishing- though I would like to be. My schedule for Fall Semester, 2011 is as follows: Period 1A:...
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Mega-Extra Credit Opportunity
updated April 22, 2011
Many of you have been asking about extra credit options. here is a nice one, that could be worth many points if pulled off well. Click on this link to "Japan Empire Memoirs" and visit their...
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make an origami crane
updated April 5, 2011
make an origami crane. click on this article, and then on any where that says origami crane. It should be a hyperlink to a pdf file teaching you how to fold an origami crane.
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Best Cheat Sheet ever for Japanese!
updated February 8, 2011
Click here to go inside and click on cheat to find the best cheat-sheet ever for Japanese!
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Come Saturday to Sono Bana for Japanese food!
updated January 28, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 5:00 pm come to Sono Bana restaurant in Boise and eat w/Japan Club! Afterwards, you've been invited to a movie party- directions given out at Sono Bana. Click the link to...
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Youth For Understanding Scholarships
updated November 17, 2010
Herein lies multiple scholarship opportunities for Japan travel. These are kind of a big deal, but kids living in Idaho have a distinct advantage in winning many of these. Find the pretty blue link...
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Japan Trip Competition!
updated November 17, 2010
Write a few paragraphs and spend part of the summer in Japan. Simple, huh? Go inside this article, find a pretty blue link that says "Kobe College Corporation- Japan Education Exchange" and click...
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High School Diplomats program
updated October 27, 2010
If you're interested in the scholarship for the two week program at Princeton University that we heard about in class, please click enter this article by clicking on it, then find a pretty blue...
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News from the Japanese Consulate
updated September 3, 2010
Enter here and click on "news from the Japanese consulate" for access to their online newsletter. This is a good source for researching current events in Japanese PR and involvement with the rest of...
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OPI PRACTICE SITE!!!
updated May 6, 2010
1st and 2nd year students- Go here and practice right now!!! OPI question flashcards
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Genki study aids!
updated February 3, 2010
Need help with Kanakana? Hiragana? Vocab? Kanji? Grammar? click here to get inside. once inside, you can simply click on the word "Genki" for a ton of help.
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Did you lose a kanji?
updated December 1, 2009
if you need to look up any kanji, click on this article, once inside, click on the link that says I wanna kanji! and the deepest secrets of the Japanese/Chinese pictographic alliance will be...
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Win a trip to Japan!!!
updated November 18, 2009
Write 500 words or less and win a free trip to Japan this summer!!! click here on the news article, once inside the link will be live. Click on this link to essay contest for details!
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japan 4 important links
updated October 5, 2009
Fourth Year Japanese: Students will prepare for the district's end of year assessments by studying kanji, vocabulary, and grammar consistant with an AP course. Students may elect to take...
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Japan 3 important links
updated October 5, 2009
Third Year Japanese: Students will prepare for the district's end of year assessments by studying kanji, vocabulary, and grammar consistant with an AP preperation course. Students may elect to...
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Japan 2 important links
updated October 5, 2009
Second Year Japanese: Students will prepare for the district's end of second year assessments and second year Oral Proficiency Interviews by studying kanji, vocabulary, and grammar consistant with...
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Japan 1 important links
updated October 5, 2009
First Year Japanese- Students will learn the Hiragana Katakana writing systems, as well as elemental Kanji. (Students may find the Hiragana and Katakana study aid #1 and Hiragana and Katakana...
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O.P.I. study help!!! (exportable to your IPod)
updated April 7, 2009
To practice by hearing the OPI questions read to you, click here on "OPI question flashcards." The stuff labled OPI 1 is for first year, the stuff labled OPI 2 is for second year. Duh. (Also,...
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Great links !
updated February 5, 2009
Click here for loads of Japanese study links!
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guide to numbers, time, counting
updated January 30, 2009
Click here for a cyber guide to numbers, time, and counting.
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hiragana or katakana challenge
updated January 26, 2009
Click here and study hiragana and katakana and kanji, then try clicking on hiragana challenge or katakana challenge to test your mettle against other schools across the globe.
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day of the week rave
updated January 26, 2009
The day of the week rave can be found by clicking on day of the week rave.
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katakana study
updated January 26, 2009
click here on katakana fun 1 for a katatakana practice game. If that gets old, click here on katakana games for more links and a talking katakana page.
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Awesome Kanji Study Page
updated November 6, 2008
Click on "Awesome Kanji Study Page" to be magically transported, to, well, an awesome kanji study page... complete with stroke order video, readings, and meanings! Whee!
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How to Type Japanese on your own Computer:
updated November 6, 2008
This is what has worked for me: First install the Japanese language pack that is...
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