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November 17 to 21

Weekly Homework: Kapitel 5, Zweite Stufe

  • Research: Best and worst-dressed fashion show.
  • History: we learn about Martin Luther, the first modern German and a titan of his nation's history
  • Grammatikheft: pp 27-30
Montag

Song activity: "Reiss die Huette ab"

SSMD: Commenting on and describing clothes

Grammatik im Kontext #15 & 16 p 137

Go over Wortschatz, p 138

Partnersprach: write out a dialogue and do #17 p 139

Dienstag

 

Mittwoch

 

Links

Donnerstag

 

Freitag

 

 

 

November 10 to 14

Weekly Homework: Kapitel 5, Erste Stufe

  • Research:No research this week because of extra tests
  • No podcast this week
  • Grammatikheft: pp 27-30
Montag

Group review: noodle practice with school supplies

SSMD: Pointing things out

Schreiben #27 & #28 pages 116 & 117

Homework: Kann ich's Wirklich? page 126

Study for 4.3 Quiz and Chapter 4 Test

Dienstag

Review homework

Quiz: Kapitel 4, Dritte Stufe

Kapitel 4 Test

Watch Los Geht's, Kapitel 5

No Homework

Mittwoch

Watch Los Geht's, Kapitel 5

Review questions together

Go over Wortschatz, p 133

Zuhoeren #6: Was ist fur Manner? Was ist fur Frauen?

#8 Was gibt es im Modegeschaeft? (Partner)

SSMD: Expressing wishes when shopping

Work with new partner in a dialogue demonstrating the use of the new questions.

HW: #5, pages 132

Links

Donnerstag

Ich packe meinen Koffer und ich nehme...mit game

Grammatik: Definite and indefinite articles, accusative case. Practice

Zuhoeren #9: identifying direct objects

Partnersprach: #10 p 135

Partnersprach: #12. In a department store, point out where items are as they are asked for.

Go over Wortschatz: Farben! p 136

Use magazines cut-outs to create study guides

HW: #1 and #3, page 148 & 149

Freitag

Reis die Hutte ab! Activity, changing the lyrics to a popular song

Kapitel 5, Erste Stufe Quiz

Review Martin Luther, map/crossword activity.

 

November 3 to 7

Weekly Homework: Kapitel 4, Zweite und Dritte Stufen

  • Research: The costs of school supplies in Gallatin/Hendersonville
  • No podcast this week
  • Grammatikheft: pp 27-30
Montag

Beginn: #3 p 120-121

SSMD: Expressing likes, dislikes, and favorites

Zuhoeren: #17, Katjas Faecher

Line-up: Welche Faecher hast du gern?

Interview: favorites

Zuhoeren #20 p 111

SSMD: Responding to good news and bad news

Schreiben: #22 p 112

HW: Grammatikheft, pages 31-34 (go over homework & verb, Kosten)

Prep Time for Barbarossa Activity

Dienstag

Keine Schule, Election Day, Wahltag!

Mittwoch

Beginn # 4 p 121

Landeskunde video and activity p 113

Go over Wortschatz, p 114

Zuhoeren #25 p 115

SSMD: Talking about prices

#26: Was kostet (use a newspaper circular to ask and answer questions about school supplies)

Links

Donnerstag

SSMD: Pointing things out

Freitag

 

 

October 20 to 24

Weekly Homework: Kapitel 4, Erste Stufe

  • Research: No personal research this week. We will spend Thursday learning about Barbarossa
  • No podcast this week
  • Grammatikheft: pp 24-26
Montag

Kann ich's wirklich? p 94, to review for the Chapter 3 Test

Watch: "PopXport" from Deutsche Welle TV

Group: Rollenspiel #9 p 93

Dienstag

Chapter 3 Test

Oral Exam

Mittwoch

2nd day of testing, for students who took the PLAN on Tuesday

Links

Donnerstag

Frederick Web Quest in Plato Lab

Research your role in the Barbarossa Day skit

Freitag

Student teachers will take over the class, teaching 20-minute blocks in Mr. Dittes's absence.

 

October 14 to 17

Weekly Homework: Kapitel 3, Dritte Stufe

  • Research: Meine Familie. One paragraph about your family, one photo, and two sentences. Presentations on Thursday.
  • No podcast this week
  • Grammatikheft: pp 24-26
Montag

Keine Schule

Herbstpause

Dienstag

Beginn #s 7 p 90

Go over Wortschatz: Jens und seine Familie

Zuhoeren #20 p 82

SSMD: Talking about family members

#21 Grammatik im Kontext

 

Mittwoch

Beginn: #s 8 & 9 pp 90-91

Go over Worschatz, numbers from 20 to 100

Zuhoeren #22: Steffis Familie

Write four sentences describing members of your own family

Links

Donnerstag

Begin: #11 p 91

Go over Ein wenig Grammatik p 83

#10 p 91

Go over Wortschatz, p 84

Write foru more sentences describing what members of your family look like

#26 p 85

Freitag

Quiz: Kapitel 3, Dritte Stufe

Lecture: Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Deutschland on Crusade

 

Weekly Homework: Kapitel 3, Zweite Stufe

  • Research: Meiin Zimmer. We will have presentations on Mein Haus & Mein Zimmer on Wednesday before we leave for break.
  • No podcast this week
  • Grammatikheft: pp 22-23

 

 

Montag

 

 

Go over Worschatz: Jens zeigt Holer sein Zimmer, p 78

Work as a group to come up with a Supplementary Vocabulary Sheet (nouns and adjectives)

Zuhoeren #13 p 78

SSMD: Describing a room

#14 Versteckte Satze, p 79 write a sentence for each of the nouns

Design a map that shows all the furniture in your room--describe each with adjectives.

Dienstag

Beginn #s 4 and 5 p 89

#15 & #16 Grammatik im Kintext

#17 describe the room to a partner

#6 & #7 pp 89-90

Mittwoch

Quiz: Kapitel 3, Zweite Stufe

Mein Haus, Mein Zimmer Presentations

Links

Donnerstag

Keine Schule: Herbstpause

fall break

Freitag

Keine Schule: Herbstpause

 

Weekly Homework: Kapitel 3, Erste Stufe

  • Research: Meiin Haus. Describe the area where you live.
  • Podcast:Where I live
  • Grammatikheft: pp 19-21

 

 

Montag

 

 

Kann ich wirklich? p 66

Rollenspiel p 65

Los geht's: Bei Jens zu Hause! p 70-71

Dienstag

Kapitel 2 Test

Oral Test

Do #s 2 through 5 page 72

Mittwoch

Beginn: #6 & #7 p 63

SSMD: Talking about Where you Live & go over Wortschatz

Zuhoeren #6 p 74

#7 & #8 Wo wohnen die Schuler?

Landeskunde A 1 & 2 p 77

Links

Donnerstag

Beginn: Grammar from papers

SSMD: Offering something to eat and drink and responding (Wortschatz)

Zuhoeren #9 p 75

Grammatik im Kontext #10 and #11

Create a menu for Deutsch Cafe

 

Freitag

Quiz: Kapitel 2, Erste Stufe

Music Activity

 

Weekly Homework

 

 

Montag

 

 

Beginn: #2 p 62

Landeskunde Activity p 54

SSMD: When we do various activities
Group: identify five activities for five different times of the day/year

Zuhoeren #22 p 56

#23-26 p 56

Dienstag

Beginn: # 5 p 63

#27 p 57, arrange the sentences in correct grammatical order, using properly conjugated verbs

SSMD: Asking for an opinion and expressing yours

Time for work on Grammatikheft

#28 & #29 p 57-58

Mittwoch

Presentations of Fall Activities in your German City

SSMD: Agreeing and disagreeing

Review for the quiz

Links

Donnerstag

Quiz: Kapitel 2, Dritte Stufe

Freitag

Lecture & Map Activity: What was the Heilige Romisches Reich?

 

Weekly Homework

  • Research: Charlemagne (assigned Tuesday)
  • Podcast: Expressing Likes & Dislikes
  • Grammatikheft: pp 12-14

picture of charlemagne

 

Montag

 

 

Review quizzes 2.1

Introduction to Verb-Boot Camp: drop and give me zwanzig!

SSMD: Expressing likes and dislikes, class "linie-sprechen" activity.

Grammatik im Kontext #12 & 13

Go over Wortschatz p 51. Conjugate all new regular verbs on the new golden sheets.

#14 Mix-match

Dienstag

Beginn: #2 p 62

Zuhoeren #15: Wer macht was?

#17 Grammatik im Kontext, p 53

Schreiben #18 p 53

Charlemagne: two contrasting view of the Christmas 800 Coronation.

Assign roles for the Coronation of Charlemagne play on Friday

Mittwoch

Beginn: #3 p 62

Sprechen/Schreiben # 19 p 53

Communicative Activity 2.1

Landeskunde video interviews with German students

TPR Storytelling Exercise

Verb Matching exercise

Links

Donnerstag

Review for Quiz

Go over Grammatikheft

Quiz: 2.2

Time for work on Charlemagne Play

Freitag

The Coronation of Charlemagne, 2008 edition

"You're the Pope!" Game

 

Color Guide: Listening * Quizzes * Speaking * Classwork * Multimedia


September 8 to 12: Talking about your interests

Prepare for Chapter Test
Review video
Kann ich's wirklich? P 40

Go over all three chapter tests.

Los Geht's Kapitel 2: Was machst du in deiner Freizeit?

#s 2 through 5 p 46

 

Last hour: Chapter Test Kapitel 1.

Oral Test, Kapitel 1.

Work on Grammatikheft or Stadt project: a Sport

SSMD: Talking about interests

Go over Wortschatz p 47

Write five sentences describing your likes, and two describing your dislikes.

Zuhoeren #6 p 47

Beginn: #1 p 62 and #7 p 48

Grammatik im Kontext #8 p 48

#9 Fragen und Antworten

Work the line activity

Map Activity: the Empire of Charlemagne

 

Quiz: Kapitel 3, Erste Stufe

Sport in meiner Stadt presentations.

Podcasts: WAV and MP3, and Handout

September 2 to 5: Describing where you Come From and How you Get to School

No School

Labor Day Holiday

girl on the beach

SSMD: Talking about where people are from

#22 Zuhoeren: listen to where Germans come from

Converstation lines

#24 Rate mal p 29. Write five exchanges describing a person from a different German Stadt.

#25 Schreiben, answer the note given to Holger

Deine Stadt: what is one interesting way people travel? (Subway, Autobahn, Bus, Boat, etc.)

SSMD: Talking about how someone gets to school

Go over Wortschatz and do #27

#28 & #29 p 32, Grammatik im Kontext. Practice asking questions with different forms of the ver, kommen

#31 p 33, Eine Umfrage

 

#s 6 & 7 p 37

Communicative Activity

TPR Picture Activity

View PopXXXport a German music magazine from DeutscheWelle

Practice for Quiz

Quiz 1.3

Presentations on transport in Stadten/Lander

Podcast for DritteStufe, Getting to School. MP3. or as a Windows Media File



August 25 to 29: Describing your Age

Beginn: #2 & #3 p 36

Landestag: find something in your Land/Stadt that is really old.

  • Write two sentences in German describing how old the building/artifact is
  • Bring to class 1/2 page for display, including a picture and information.

SSMD: Asking someone's age and giving yours

  • Step 1: Repeat after teacher
  • Step 2: Work with a partner. #16, introduce that partner to the class
  • Step 3: Work the line

Zuhoeren #15: Wie alt?

Assign Grammatikheft workbooks

Review verb conjugation

 

Beginn: #4 p 36

Review: #16 with a new partner

Practice with plural forms of sein

Zuhoeren #17 p

Grammatik #18 p 26 und #19

Go over Etwas Alt projects

German music: "Mein Bester Freund" by Die Prinzin

Review for Quiz

Pick up Grammatikheft homework

Go over #21p 27

Quiz: Zweite Stufe

 

Crossword puzzle: the Goths gegen die Romische Reich

We will spend time in the library looking up artifacts of the Gothic invasions.

 

August 18 to 22: Greeting others in Deutschland

Media Center: work on Reisebroschure about our assigned Land or Stadt.

SSMD p 21 Greeting and bidding goodbye

Los Geht's pp 18-19. Do sections 2- 5 on page 20

HW: Reisebroschure due Wednesday

Review Los Geht's

ZH #6 p 21, #7 p 22

SSMD: Asking someone's name and giving yours

Sprechen--greet others in your assigned group.

ZH #9 p 23

Grammatik, pages 23 & 24. Conjugating the verb heissen and identifying boy and girl.

HW Grammatikheft pp

 

Reisetag: present Reisebroschuren to the class

TPR: 1.1 Wer bist du?

Quiz Chapter 1, Erste Stufe

The Gothic Invasions that brought the Roman Empire to its knees.

Map activity

Podcast: Heissen and jobs you see around SCHS