This is a hanko sheet with a bunch of American cartoon characters. I just finished making my masterpiece yesterday for the new school year at my high school. It was labor intensive, but I had a lot of free time this week. ;-)
I got the idea from the hanko sheet that my predecessor had been using. Hers was similar, but mostly had Japanese anime and manga characters. It was cool and I liked the idea of using characters on hanko squares because the kids are obsessed with mascots, but I decided I'd rather make one that imparted something from foreign culture rather than the characters already popular in Japan. The characters are the most popular, classic ones in American culture and many are from my youth (maybe yours, too?), so I thought it would be neat to share with the kids the type of stuff I liked when I was growing up in the U.S.
I made this new sheet with 35 squares because the old one that had 42 squares was nearly impossible to fill up. I also plan to increase the hanko stamps given per lesson so kids will have a better chance at increasing their grade and feel more motivated to participate. (It's a trivial grade percentage, but the kids don't know that!) At the end of each term I count how many stamps a student earned (only for that term) and use a scale to determine how many stamps equal an A through E. Grading on a curve works, too. I write the letter grade on the line corresponding to the term and then the JTE of that class decides how to use the grade. I think it's for "participation," or "attitude," or whatever. The grade idea was my predecessor's and it's genius!
On the backside of the hanko sheet are places for the students to write personal info and draw a picture of themselves. At the top is a big box for them to write their names. I like for them to write the name they want me to call them. The big name box is folded on the dotted line so it sticks up and is visible when sitting on top of their desks. It should be folded so the hanko grid is facing up. At my school we ordered pastel colored A4 size card stock to print the hanko sheets on. This makes them more durable and is easier for the name boxes to stick up when folded. They're printed in black ink only on the schools huge printing machine, so I already tweaked the shading and contrast of the colors so they don't turn out too dark when printed from the computer and then are copied to the printing machine. The grid lines got covered up by some of the images, so when I printed it from the computer I just used a ruler to draw the lines back in.
Sidenote--After choosing all the characters, I realized that most of them are male characters. I wanted to use more female characters, too, but there just aren't many. :-( So I used Smurfette instead of a regular Smurf, and used a picture of Mickey with Minnie, too. But that's pretty much it! I realized American cartoon culture is much more masculine than its Japanese counterpart, what with Hello Kitty and Sailor Moon and all. If there are female characters in American cartoons, they're usually sidekicks and don't accurately represent the overall show. Boooo!
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