Last October 5th, twenty-three high school students from nine public schools across the city began attending Japanese classes offered through Globalize DC’s new Japanese Plus program. Six weeks later, in the Columbia Heights Education Campus library, the students found themselves in the intimidating position of presenting what they had learned to family, friends, and community partners. The challenge! Take everything they had learned so far – every phrase and even katakana characters – and create an original skit for presentation. The students worked in four groups and came up with four unique and crazy skits. The task took a lot […]
