The
NCJLT currently offers two contests for Japanese language
students: The Yonkoma Manga design contest, and the annual
Nengajoo (New Years card design contest). Please read
the contest rules carefully as each contest has different
requirements and deadlines. Both contests require that
the teacher submitting student cards and manga is a paid
NCJLT member.
Nengajoo
2010 "Year of the TIger"
Please
excuse the delay, but the Nengajoo and Yonkoma Manga contest
rules and applications have been uploaded. Please find
them by clicking on the following links:
Nengajoo |Rules|
|Application|
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Yonkoma Manga |1|
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Yon
Koma Manga 2009
Thank you to all of the teachers who had students submit
Yon Koma Manga entries into this years contest. There
were many great entries this year! If you would like to
view them in color, please click on the thumbnails below.
(We will also have reproductions displayed at next year痴
ACTFL Japanese Pavillion.)
The winners for the 2009 Contest are (students' last names
have been deleted for the sake of privacy)
:
Middle School:
Comical: Erin, Rachel Carson Middle School, Student
of Tomoko Geiser
Historical: Juliana, Rachel Carson Middle School,
Student of Tomoko Geiser
Cultural: Laura, Rachel Carson Middle School, Student
of Tomoko Geiser
High School:
Comical: Marti, Falls Church High School,
Student of Yoko Thakur
Historical: Sam, North Eugene High School,
Student of Miiko Suzuki
Cultural: Zach, Bloomington High School
North,Student of Molly Jeon
Honorable Mention:
Sean, Rachel Carson Middle School,
Alysa, North Eugene High School
All winners will receive a copy of the book titled Draw
Manga: How to Draw Manga In Your Own Unique Style by Bruce
Lewis. NCJLT is proud to sponsor these annual contests.
It provides a creative outlet for our students in which
they can further explore Japanese language and culture
and an opportunity to highlight the wonderful things happening
in Japanese education around the country. (Continued on
next page)
The idea for this contest came from the desire by post-secondary
institutions to have a competition as well as the idea
of having students begin to consider story telling as
in the four framed pictures on the AP Japanese Language
and Culture test. The AP test item actually involves students
creating an oral narration of a four celled set of drawings
these images or others from manga could be used for this
purpose as well.
