Organization and Remarks
The 1st contest booklet

      A simple overview is given at the beginning of each lesson, showing the ages and Japanese level of the students for whom the lesson was originally prepared, along with the cultural and linguistic components it introduces.

      The lesson plans, with a few exceptions, have been edited to fit the following format:
1. Objectives
2. Materials
3. Procedure
4. Student Response
5. Culture and the Foreign Language Class

      Comments from the committee have been included to allow the reader to see what members of the committee considered to be a lesson's strong points and what they recommended to further develop the lesson.

      Aside from minimal editing, mostly to rearrange the material to fit the basic format, we have presented the lesson plans as the entrants wrote them. Please note that statistics and figures were current at the time of writing and may have changed later.

      Instructions by the editors appearing in a lesson plan are enclosed in square brackets.