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Expanding the Thematic Unit

1. Creating a Restaurant :

2. Graphing Data relating to Import/Export of food sources

3. Debate Between Restaurant Owners

Evidence: Presentation of designs, menus, and advertisements. || Task Completion:70% Language Use:20% Delivery:10% || Language Use:20% Delivery:10% || Language Use:40% Delivery:20% ||
 * 1. **Interpretive** Students will use Internet dining guides and menus as reference for creating a restaurant that specializes in a particular region’s cuisine. Each group will need to design their restaurant’s business model, and understand where the food they need will come from. They will also need to create menus and advertisements for their restaurants and place these on google docs for review and finalized on their wiki site.
 * 2. **Presentational** Students will assess how food is imported and exported to and from Japan and other countries. They will create graphs and charts of the percentage of imports vs. exports in Japanese, and present a powerpoint presentation using google powerpoint. They will add a transcription/link of the powerpoint to their wiki site. Students will also need to gather sources from news sources and company and government websites and assess how Japan compares to other countries with Environmentally conscious/conservative food production methods. Evidence: Oral presentation || Task Completion:70%
 * 3. **Interpersonal/Presentational** There is a corporation from America that is interested in creating a chain of Japanese restaurants. The company is interested in choosing one of the restaurants that the students have created as a model. Students will need to form a debate between different restaurant groups that have formed and discuss evidence of why their restaurant will be more popular, cost effective, sustainable, and marketable in America. Evidence: Oral debate, Presentation || Task Completion:40%

1. Creating a Restaurant
 * Task Completion: 70 || Language Use: 20 || Delivery: 10 ||

 2. Graphing Data relating to Import/Export of food sources
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Task Completion: 70 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language Use: 20 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Delivery: 10 ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 3. Debate Between Restaurant Owners
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Task Completion 40 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language Use 40 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Delivery 20 ||