Course Outline and Syllabus Instructor: address: Phone: Staff Assistant A blue folder Office Hours: Text Materials PF 3640.C64, 1999.

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1 1 German 2, Section 001 Fall 2010 Penn State Altoona Course Outline and Syllabus 143 Hawthorn, Monday and Wednesday 10:00 AM 10:50 AM 143 Hawthorn, Friday 10:00 AM 11:50 AM Instructor: Dr. Ilse-Rose Warg (call me Frau Dr. Warg) Dr. Ilse-Rose Warg address: or Phone: (814) a) If you are on Campus dial 5237 to leave a message on my voice mail. b) If you are off campus and in the 814 area code zone: dial c) In case of class cancellation check at d) In case of a two-hour delay schedule, our class starts M, W, at 11:30-12:05 and F 11:30-12:50 Staff Assistant: Mary Novella, 144 LRC, She will be available for any questions you have concerning general information about German 002, sec. 001 at PSU Altoona. My mailbox is in her office. A blue folder is in my mailbox for delayed homework or communication. Office Hours: 141 LRC, Montag und Mittwoch Uhr, und Freitag Uhr; and by appointment. Text Materials: Robert Di Donato, Monica D. Clyde, and Jacqueline Vansant: Deutsch, na klar!: An Introductory German Course. Boston, New York: McGraw-Hill Co, Fifth Edition. ISBN-13: Di Donato, Clyde, Vansant: Workbook to Accompany Deutsch: Na klar! 5th ed. ISBN: A pocket- Dictionary: There are inexpensive paperback dictionaries available in the bookstore on the Altoona Campus. A comprehensive dictionary is Collins, Pons: Deutsch English: English German in Eiche Library Reference No. PF 3640.C64, Hand-outs A three-ring folder to keep all of your work book material, hand-outs, and homework organized Web page: The web page will open up to editions three and four. Open edition 4, it does correspond to edition 5 of your text, although, the page numbers vary slightly. Course Objectives and Goals In German 2 you will continue to develop your linguistic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Taking together these four skills constitute "fluency", and they are the primary course objectives of German 1-3. You cannot expect to become fluent

2 2 overnight, but if you study intensively - even for short periods of time on a regular basis - you can easily master the vocabulary and structures in each chapter of Deutsch, na klar!- a textbook designed to achieve communicative competence. In addition to the four linguistic skills, you will also reach an increasing familiarity with the culture of the German-speaking world. Total Physical Response (TPR) To make Ger. 2 a pleasurable experience for you, I will introduce a teaching method called "Total Physical Response" early on in the course. "TPR" will have you listen to commands and actually perform them; it may be used throughout the entire semester. Deutsch, na klar! Workbook. Most of your written homework is in this Workbook. Please do the exercises, then check yourself for correction by using the answer key in the back of the book. Correct your answers with a different color pencil or pen, so I am able to distinguish between your first work and your corrections. The pages of the Workbook will be handed in at request usually when you reach the end of a chapter in your textbook. Performance Objectives for German 2: 1. Listening and reading ability, recognizing meaning and usage of all vocabulary items through Chapter 10. e) Ability to use in simple spoken or written sentences the structures and vocabulary items through Chapter 10. f) Practice German often, even for short periods of time - but remember, regularly. g) Chose a partner with whom you can practice German outside of the classroom and perform skits. Video I will use several old videos I selected just for fun. Some homework might result from it. Some test material might be taken from these videos. Tests: Your instructor will administer at least 4 Quizzes (approximately minutes each). There will also be 1 Comprehensive Examination (approximately minutes) and a Final Examination. Quizzes, Comprehensive Examination, and the Final Examination will not be re-tested, unless you have a valid excuse for being absent during the time when the test was given. All examinations of German 2 require that you answer questions about the stories, the cultural readings, and other materials I introduced. I might give some Pop-quizzes, if necessary. There will be an oral quiz for you and your partner. The oral quiz is part of the final examination. Homework For assignments follow the syllabus attached to this course outline. In addition do all activities from the Workbook and Language Manual unless I tell you in advance which ones to omit. Please notice the following: 1. All class assignments are to be prepared for the class period indicated. 2. The assignments listed in the Syllabus are maximum assignments. I might eliminate some of them. 3. The Workbook assignments will not be discussed and practiced in class.

3 3 Skits. There will be several skits during the semester. You prepare them with your partner/s. Your instructor will suggest topics to you or discuss them with you if you have your own ideas about skits. Bring props for the skits. They help you to remember your lines. Please do not read the lines but know them by heart. Course Policies: Bring your textbook and the Syllabus to the class. I expect you to be on time either for appointments or for the lessons. If you have to be late, come. Better late than not at all. You may miss two classes unexcused, additional absences without a valid excuse will lower your course grade up to 15%. Class participation is essential. I will ask you to speak with each other in German and to find partners with whom you can practice German outside of the classroom. Periodically I will ask you to write things on the black board. During TPR you will physically respond to the commands given by a classmate or me. Semester Grades Grades A Quizzes (4 x 6%) 24% A Comprehensive Exam 10% B Skits 12 % B Final Examination (4% oral) 19% B Class Performance, 15% C homework 13% C Workbook 7% D F Total 100 % In the unexpected event that a student needs a Deferred Grade (DF), No Grade (NG), or Change of Grade he/she must request it with complete proper paper work prior the final exam week. The Registrar s Office will help you. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STATEMENT Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest, and responsible manner. Academic integrity is a basic guiding principle for all academic activity at The Pennsylvania State University, and all members of the University community are expected to act in accordance with this principle. Consistent with this expectation, the University's Code of Conduct states that all students should act with personal integrity, respect other students' dignity, rights, and property, and help create and maintain an environment in which all can succeed through the fruits of their efforts. Academic integrity includes a commitment not to engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation or deception. Such acts of dishonesty violate the fundamental ethical principles of the University community and compromise the worth of work completed by others. Consequences of academic dishonesty: The instructor may assign an academic sanction ranging from failure on the assignment to failure in the course. The instructor

4 4 reports each academic sanction to the Office of Judicial Affairs, which keeps a record. Students can appeal academic sanctions to the Committee on Academic Integrity through the Office of Academic Affairs. In more serious cases of academic dishonesty, the Office of Judicial Affairs may apply disciplinary sanctions in addition to the academic sanctions. These may range from automatic failure for the course to probation, suspension, or expulsion from the University. An "XF" grade is a formal University disciplinary sanction that indicates on the student's transcript that failure in a course was due to a serious act of academic dishonesty. (Policies and Rules for Students, Section ) Tentative Syllabus This tentative syllabus is designed so that you will be able to familiarize yourself with the new materials for each day in advance. Note that I do not assign vocabulary learning in particular. You must learn the new words when you do the numerous activities and exercises in your books. Avoid handing in late assignments, if for valid reasons you could not do your assignment on time, you may hand in assignments by placing them into a blue folder marked German 2. The folder is in my mailbox at 144 LRC. I reserve the right to refuse acceptance of any assignments that are 2 class periods overdue. class day year 2010 Hausaufgaben und Stundenplan 1 M 23. August Deutsche Vornamen, get acquainted with the text materials, outlines and syllabus. Deutsch, na klar! Refresh Kapitel 5. Wednesday bring your Workbook (WB) to class (pgs. 84, 90-91, and 288) 2 W 25. August Deutsch, na klar! Refresh Kapitel 5. Dative S und Verben mit Dativ S Select a pertner for your skits and speaking German outside of the class. Hausarbeit: S. 159 Übung. 1. Unless I tell you different, always write complete sentences; give your completed homework to me before the class starts. Rehash S. 160 Articles and Possessive Adjectives in the Dative. 3 F 37. August Deutsch, na klar! Refresh Kapitel 5, especially the verbs on page 161. Hausarbeit: Form Sentences with the six verbs; do Übg M 30. August Deutsch, na klar! Kapitel 5, Seiten Hausarbeit: prepare Übg. 10 and 11 (not in writing, just orally) 5 W Deutsch, na klar! Kapitel 6, Wir gehen aus. S Hausarbeit: Beschreiben Sie Ihren Partner. Wie heißt er/sie; Wo wohnt er/sie; was trägt er/sie; hat er/sie Geschwister. 6 F Deutsch, na klar! (Dnk.) Kapitel 6, S. 178, das Wort lassen. 179 idiomatische Ausdrücke 0 M Labor Day: No classes Lesen. Kultur tipps S Aktivität 8, 9 und S (WB) 7 W Deutsch, na klar! (Dnk.) Übung 5, 6, 7, 8.Expressing Time with

5 5 Prepositions, Übung 10. Hand out skit topics 8 F Past Tense of sein und haben, Seite 194. Übung 11 und 12. Hausarbeit: Prepare for first quiz 9 M Quiz 1 (covers Kapitel 5 und 6 bis Seite 194) simple past tense of Modals. S Hausarbeit: Übg. 14 (just write the number and the modal in its past and conjugated), Übg W Return and discuss Quiz 1. Dnk! Hausarbeit: WB Kapitel 6 ist fällig. 11 F DnK! Kapitel 7, S Hausarbeit: üben Sie Ihren Skit für Mittwoch 12 M 20. September Skit: Dnk! Freizeit und Sport. Thema 2 S ; Hausarbeit: Akt. 4, discuss with your partner, and write down his/her answers. 13 W 22. September Dnk!: Thema 3 S S. 216 Coordinating Conjunctions, Hausarbeit: komplette Sätze für Übg. 1 prepare Übg. 2. Orally. 14 F 24. September Dnk! The Present Perfect Tense, S Hausarbeit: Schreiben Sie einen Wetterbericht von Ihrer Heimatstadt. Übg. 4 und 5 S M 27. September Maybe a Pop-Quiz for grammar (present perfect tense week verbs) Dnk: The use of haben oder sein as auxiliaries. S Strong Verbs, S Übung 7, S W Dnk: Mixed Verbs. S Verbs with separable Prefixes, S. 223 Verbs ending in ieren, Verbs with inseparable prefixes, S Hausarbeit: to be anounced 17 F 1. Oktober Dnk! Poem by Bertold Brecht: Vergnügungen. S More present perfect tense. Past Participles. 18 M 4. Oktober Dnk Comparative S S Hausarbeit: write a poem 19 W 6. Oktober Dnk: Expressing equality S Prepare for quiz 2 Discuss poems. 20 F 8. Oktober Quiz 2 (Kapitel 7) WB Kapitel 7 ist fällig. Subordinate Conjunctions and Indirect Questions, S High school out reach on Saturday. Dnk: Kapitel 8, S Learn vocab. for human body 21 M Hausarbeit: learn your poem by heart. Return and discuss Quiz 2, Dnk: Thema 3 Morgenroutine, S Verbs with Dative Reflexive Pronouns, S

6 6 22 W F M 18. Oktober 25 W 20. Oktober 26 F 22. Oktober 27 M 25. Oktober 28 W F 29. Oktober 30 M W 3. November 32 F 5. November 33 M 8. November 34 W F 12. November 36 M 15. November 37 W 17. November 38 F 19. November Hausarbeit: to be announced. Skit is reciting your own poem. Dnk: S Verbs with reflexive pronouns in the accusative and dative, S Dnk: Kapitel 9 In der Stadt, S Prepare for quiz 3. The Genitive Case, S. 271 Quiz 3 (Kapitel 8) WB Kapitel 8 ist fällig Prepositions with the genitive case S Hausarbeit: to be announced Return and discuss Quiz 3. Dnk: Thema 3, S Continue Genitive case S Hausarbeit: Beschreiben Sie, wie man vom Port Sky Café zu der Wohnung des Partners kommt. Vocab. hand-out. Prepare it like a skit with your partner who needs to repeat your directions, because he/she does not hear well. Ex: Wie komme ich von Hawthorn zum Port Sky Café? Wohin willst du? Ich möchte zum Port Sky Café. Ach so. Geh geradeaus bis zur Ecke von Hawthorn, dann rechts zum Ententeich. Wie bitte? Zum was? zum Ententeich. Ach so, also links um nein rechts. This is only an example. Use your own fantasy. Skit: Wie komme ich von meiner Wohnung zum Café? Dnk: Thema 2, S Prepositions with the Genitive S learn the expressions which precede the genitive case (in der Nähe des Parks, gegenüber des Rathauses etc.) Dnk: attributive adjectives. S Hausarbeit: Übg. 7 S.275 Dnk: Atributive Adjectives, S Hausarbeit: Übg. 11, S. 278 Dnk: Vielleicht Bremer Stadmusikanten dramatisieren. Dnk: Lesen, Die Gitarre des Herrn Hatunoglu Zeilen (lines) 1-5, S. 273Dnk: Lesen, S Dnk: Lesen: Read Die Gitarre des Herrn Hatunoglu S , lines Skit: register in a Hotel. Finish Die Gitarre des Herrn Hatunoglu S. 285, Zum Text B und C: S. 287 Comprehensive Exam (Kapitel 6-9) Return and discuss C.E. Dnk. Kapitel 10 S The Superlative S Dnk: Thema 1 S Aktivität 4, S.296 und Thema 2 Eine Wandertour, S. 297 Kapitel 10, S WB Kapitel 9 ist fällig. Dnk: comparison and superlative. We are bragging. Introduce Simple Past S. 308 Dnk: Continue simple past S

7 Thanksgiving break 39 M 29. November Dnk: The Simple Past Tense of strong verbs. S. 310 and the conjunction als. S W Quiz 4 Dnk: Münchhausens Reise S F Return and discuss Quiz 4. Dnk: Übg. 12, Past Perfect Tense S. 313 Hausarbeit Übg. 14 S M 6 Dezember Dnk: repeat the three past tenses in German 43 W Three forms of when = wenn, als, wann S. 311 and hand-out 44 F 10. Dezember Prepare for Final Study days W Final Exam: 8:00-9:50 in 143 Hawthorn Commencement Bitte füllen Sie die Handy No. und Ihres Partners hier unten ein: Partners Name: Handy No. name cell phone Nr. Note to Students with Disabilities: Penn State welcomes students with disabilities into its educational programs. If you have a disability-related need for modifications or reasonable accommodations in this course, please contact the Health & Wellness Center, Disability Services, located in the Sheetz Family Health Center. For more information, call (814) or visit the Disability Services web site at Your instructors should be notified as early in the semester as possible regarding the need for modifications or reasonable accommodations.