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GERMAN IA CCO I: Interpersonal Communication Students will engage in conversations or correspondence in German to provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions. (SFL 1.1; SM 1.5, 2.1, 2.3; CA 1, CA 4, CA 6) 1. Students will identify likes and dislikes. 2. Students will memorize rote responses to frequently asked questions. 3. Students will memorize vocabulary related to greetings, school, family, and activities/ shopping. 4. Students will select the appropriate vocabulary to use when engaged in exchanges about school, family, or daily activities/shopping. 5. Students will give and follow simple instructions in German. 1. Students will survey class about preferences. 2. Students will respond to teacher-initiated questions. 3. Students will exchange information about personal events. 4. Students will compare/contrast and express opinions. 5. Students will apply pronunciation rules when reading and reciting oral exercises. s 1. Students will create a role-play demonstrating a typical German scene. 2. Students will compose a dialogue on topics studied in class. 3. Students will compose a list of questions to use in an interview. 4. Students will participate in conversations on familiar topics. 57
GERMAN IA CCO II: Interpretive Communication Students will understand and interpret spoken and written German on a variety of topics. (SFL 1.A; SM 1.5, 2.1, 2.3; CA 2, CA 3, CA 5, CA 6) 1. Students will interpret intonation, word order, and other visual and aural cues. 2. Students will respond to various classroom commands. 3. Students will select appropriate responses based on recorded material. 4. Students will match pictures to target language vocabulary based on descriptions provided orally. 5. Students will complete simple dictation exercises. 6. Students will master spelling through spelling games. 7. Students will learn various German vocabulary and verb forms through Bingo. 1. Students will summarize the main themes of a German selection. 2. Students will identify principal characters of a story or a narrative in German. 3. Students will arrange parts of a story in proper chronological sequence. 4. Students will identify the main idea of an advertisement or other simple realia. 5. Students will interpret vocabulary through unscrambling words/sentences. 1. Students will write an alternative ending to a story. 2. Students will predict future events after listening to or reading a story in German. 3. Students will illustrate a story or design a movie poster. 60
GERMAN IA CCO III: Presentational Communication Students will present information, concepts, and ideas in German on a variety of topics to an audience of listeners or readers. (SF 1.3; SM 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5) 1. Students will create flashcards to cover basic vocabulary. 2. Students will participate in vocabulary games and Internet activities (such as quia.com) or publisher websites and CD Roms. 3. Students will retell in German previously learned dialogs/stories. 1. Students will respond to questions either orally or in writing. 2. Students will interview classmates on a variety of activities and present their findings. 3. Students will apply vocabulary to everyday situations to describe daily life. 1. Students will give and support opinions or ideas on a variety of topics. 2. Students will summarize a partner s responses based on conducting an interview in German with the student. 3. Students will present a short monologue in German. 4. Students will compose short readers in German on familiar topics. 63
GERMAN IA CCO IV: Cultures Students will demonstrate an understanding of the interaction among the products, practices and perspectives of German-speaking cultures. (SFL 2.1, 2.2; SM 1.6, 1.9; FAS 1; SS 6, SS7) 1. Students will create flashcards to cover basic vocabulary. 2. Students will visit various websites (museums, newspapers, magazines, news reports online, etc) of the German-speaking world. 3. Students will watch and discuss videos of German-speaking cultures. 1. Students will investigate the customs and practices of German lifestyles. 2. Students will write a diary of an imaginary inhabitant of the German country/ area. 3. Students will create graphic organizers to highlight important cultural information about a German country/ area. 4. Students will discuss aspects unique to American culture. 1. Students will design virtual tours of a German-speaking city. 2. Students will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of living in a particular German-speaking area. 3. Students will create a hypothetical real world situation found in the target culture. 66
GERMAN IA CCO V: Connections Students will use authentic materials in German to learn about content in other subject areas. (SFL 3.1; SM 1.2, 1.5, 1.10, 2.4; FA 3; HP 6; SC 8; SS6) 1. Students will find cognates in authentic materials. 2. Students will read or listen to and talk about age-appropriate folktales, songs, short stories, and other information available on the World Wide Web. 3. Students will label a map of Germany including geographical terms, cities, etc. 4. Students will participate in a webquest focused on an interdisciplinary activity. 1. Students will convert currencies and explore various exchange rates. 2. Students will convert temperatures and other metric measurements. 3. Students will interpret a weather map. 4. Students will compile a list of high-frequency cognates. 1. Students will predict what you should wear to a particular area based on its climate. 2. Students will estimate the cost of a café visit, vacation, or shopping trip using the Internet. 3. Students will read a variety of product advertisements and make recommendations for purchase. 69
GERMAN IA CCO VI: Comparisons Students will develop insights about their language and culture through the study of the German language and German-speaking cultures. (SFL 4.1; 4.2; SM 1.2, 1.10, 2.3, 3.2; CA 1; CA 7; FA 5) 1. Students will give examples of English idioms. 2. Students will identify cognates and false cognates. 3. Students will define high-frequency idiomatic expressions. 4. Students will create flashcards to cover basic vocabulary. 5. Students will do TPR exercises to practice du and Sie. 6. Students will discuss the use of formal and informal language in English. 1. Students will locate cognates in a passage. 2. Students will distinguish between cognates and false cognates. 3. Students will compare German and American expressions. 3. Students will explain what an idiomatic expression is. 4. Students will do situational role-play. 5. Students will assign informal and formal questions to specific situations. 6. Students will compare and contrast cultural formality in the U.S. and Germanspeaking countries. 1. Students will create their own sentences using cognates. 2. Students will write their own proverbs with idiomatic expressions. 3. Students will illustrate German idioms literally and figuratively. 4. Students will justify choice of formal and informal address. 5. Students will write a note to a friend and person of distinction. 6. Students will create informal and formal questions. 72
GERMAN IA CCO VII: Communities Students will use German both within and beyond the school setting. (SFL 5.1; SM 1.10, 2.1, 2.7, 4.8; CA 5) 1. Students will listen to German music. 2. Students will read a piece of simple German literature. 3. Students will discuss the importance of speaking German in a global community. 4. Students will watch a German film. 1. Students will identify the elements of a particular work (music, literature, etc.). 2. Students will classify words, poems, and authentic materials by genre. 3. Students will analyze lyrics of a popular song. 4. Students will compare cultures and perspectives demonstrated in movies and song. 1. Students will create a movie poster for a German film. 2. Students will create a CD cover for a German band or singer. 3. Students will evaluate a German movie. 4. Students will justify the importance of seeing a movie in its original language. 76