Final Role Play
At the end of the
semester, you will write and perform a final role play. Here are the details
of this assignment:
- 10 minutes
or so in length
- done in groups
of 3 or 4
- must be comprehensible
to the class
- can be about
anything picking up on some of the themes or people that have come up in class
(in Treffpunkt Deutsch, in the videos shown in class, in discussions
in your section). See more details below regarding appropriate content
for the role plays.
- Your final
essay (Aufsatz 5) will be written by your group, and will consist of the first
250 words of the script of your role play.
- Grades for
Aufsatz 5 will be awarded as usual; grades for the presentation will work
as follows:
- Content/originality:
1/2
- Comprehensibility
(including pronunciation): 1/4
- Structural
accuracy and complexity: 1/4
- EXTREMELY
IMPORTANT: Guidelines
for content of role-plays and videos: Please click on the link and
read these guidelines carefully. Please pay close attention to these
guidelines, and ask your instructor if you're in doubt as to whether something
you're planning to do is appropriate. Otherwise s/he may have to ask
you to rethink your role play or to come up with an entirely new role play
at the last minute.
- Important
note re: comprehensibility: an important component of this part of the
grade is that the role play should be performed, not read. You can have
a couple of index cards to remind yourself of key cues, but should otherwise
try as much as you can to perform the role plays from memory. If you cannot
perform your script without reading it, chances are students in the class
will not be able to understand it.
- In order
to further promote comprehensibility of the role plays, please email your
instructor a (short!) list of words you had to look up for your role play
a few days before you perform it, so s/he can put these on a transparency
and go through them (or let you go through them) for the class prior to
your performance.