창가의 토토 Contents: the little girl at the window

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The contents of Toto-chan: the little girl at the window

(각장 주제에 따라 자신의 어린시절에 대해 영작하기)

The railroad station	9
The little girl at the window	11
The new school	17
"I like this school!"	18
The headmaster	20
Lunchtime	점심시간
Toto-chan starts school	24
The classroom in the train	27
Lessons at Tomoe	28
Sea food and land food	31

"Chew it well!"
School walks	마을 답사
The school song	교가
"Put it all back!"
Totto-chan's name	나의 이름, 별명
Radio comedians	즐겨보던 TV 프로그램
A railroad car arrives
The swimming pool	수영장
The report card	성적표
Summer vacation begins	여름방학

The great adventure	다방구,오징어,술래잡기
The bravery test	담력시험
The rehearsal hall
A trip to a hot spring	보이스카우트, 야영회, 캠프
Eurythmics
"The only thing I want!"	어릴적 키운던 병아리의 추억
Their worst clothes
Takahashi
"Look before you leap!"
"And then ...uh.."	말하기 시험

"We were only playing!"
Sport day	가을운동회,단오절행사,체육회
The poet Issa
Very mysterious
Talking your hands	맹아학교 교환학생
The forty-seven ronin
"MaSOW-chaan!"
Pigtails
"Thank you"
The library car	학교 도서실

Tails
Her second year at Tomoe
Swan lake
The farming teacher	푸른교실,학교교제원,동물원
Field kitchen
"You're really a good girl"
His bride
"Shabby old school"
The hair ribbon
Visiting the wounded

Health bark	사기꾼
The English-speaking child	외국에서 온 아이
Amateur drama	학급학예회, 연극시험
Chalk "Yasuaki-chan's Dead"
A spy	어릴적 나의 꿈
Daddy's violin
The promise Rocky disappears
The tea party
Sayonara, Sayonara!
Postscripts

Epilogue

Notes

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Toto-chan; The girl at the Window

The railways never ceased to amaze me during my tender younger years. Imagine on this intricate work of wood shaft and product of rusty blacksmith would pass a locomotive, full of commodity and passengers at fixed times. The tufts at each side give an air of tranquility and occasionally keep company with a picture of happy couple. Isolation transforms itself into a novelty by the familar humdrum that has long been my most preferable way to travel.

 Tetsuko Kuroyana's childhood anthology, "The little girl at the windows", is the benchmark of an ideal education for children as well as a travel guide to Japanese culture especially during the last years of World War 2. It was all surreal when Toto Chan had her first day at Tomoe, a dreamy place where classes were held in a railroad car with different methods of teaching---a reminder of western system. In their school, the pupils are given freedom to start with what they like to do in class; an independent study with given subjects and teachers at interval observe, encourage and instruct while the students are at work.

"Interest is the best tutor"

Toto Chan met somebody at last who listens to what she says for hours. She felt warm and safe and worth for the first time in her life. She felt different, not the same girl who disturbed the class and upset teachers at her old school.

Trust between educator and learner

Learning at its truest sense. What's more unusual about Tomoe is that there exists a complete trust between pupils and teacher. It seemed rather unreal that the headmaster could have trusted a little pupil as Toto-Chan busy piling smelly muddy terra on the ground; a circumstance, otherwise, would no doubt provoke anger and exasperation.

Philosophy adapted from West

Unlike the traditional class where students sit attentively, the young students at Tomoe are encouraged to develop what's stored in them---a better and more effective way to teach because  there is a danger of marring students talent when pupils only accumulate what's being taught at class.  

 A trip to Japan at the end of the Second World War

This recollection of childhood serves as a guide to what it was like to live during the last 1940's in Japan, one could get an idea from sea and hills. Thanks to the simple way to make things less hard. We were introduced to a vast of seafood and edible plants from the hills. Field trips to a nearby temple and make toe hot spring resort provide a virtual trip to land of rising sun. The story of 47 Ronins and a subtle social stature of Korean, one might have an inspiration to write a Habuki form the head master who encourages his little students to learn Poet Isa's verse by heart and write some of their own with what's available in their thoughts.

1) Food---what goes on the Japanese table

 2) Trips to hot springs and temples.

 3) Story of 47 Ronins

 4) Habuki

 5) Koreans living in Japan

 6) The difficult days during the last days of the war

 Conclusion

"The little girl at the windows" is a tribute to a man whose style and passion were to educate children in the set, hopeful manners. With the pang of a promise she didn't keep--- she would have visited him had not he met his final moment too sooner---, Tetsuko Kuroyana commenced her work so that the world will be able to know the discipline of Kobayashi. Thanks to a true educator,  a girl with a problem, the author herself,  was able to cherish her childhood memories. 

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어린시절에 본 철도길에대한 추억과 그리움 그리고, 떠오르는 이미지등

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에세이 (Thesis) “창가의 토토”는

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1:참교육이 무엇인가를 보여주는 동화같은 소설

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2: 작가 테스코 쿠로야와 의 추억의 수필집

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3: 일본문화와 역사를 엿볼수있는 여행가이드

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“흥미를 가져라!”

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“교육자와 학생과의 믿음”

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“서양 교육 시스템”

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“2차세계대전말기의 일본내의 상황”

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결론