Vokabellisten und Übungen

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Informationen über die Filme

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. You are required to watch these movies (but see below).  You can find the movies on the CTools site for German 221/231: click on "Resources," and then go to the folder "Filme/Videos." For copyright reasons, you can only watch the films on the University of Michigan campus. If you are on campus, it will work on any computer: your own or a university computer. A document with more information about how this works is in the "Filme/Videos" folder on the CTools site.
2. All of these movies deal with adult themes and contain some nudity, which is more customary in Germany than in the US: one sees it on TV, and even on mainstream magazine covers.  If you feel strongly that you should not be required to watch these movies, please make arrangements ahead of time with your instructor to watch a different German movie (e.g. from the list of movies on reserve at the LRC).

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Mehr Info über die "LLJ-Bücher"

• If you've read this in English, you'll find it easy and fun to read in German; if you haven't, the exciting plot and comparatively simple language will help you move along quickly and provide motivation for reading efficiently.  Either way, you'll learn a lot from reading this in German, and you'll have fun while you do it.  And when your friends mention the book, you can tell them you read it in German
• English Chapter Summaries for all the Harry Potter books As you read each chapter, you could first take a quick look at the chapter summary for that chapter; that way, it will be easier for you to guess unknown vocabulary words and thus to read more quickly without having to use your dictionary a lot. As you get further into the book, you may find you no longer need the chapter summaries.
• Vocab list for the entire book, chapter by chapter! (Compiled by Steve Hunter, a student at Maranacook Community School, Readfield, Maine)
• Questions to think about for the entire book, chapter by chapter (Compiled by Steve Hunter, a student at Maranacook Community School, Readfield, Maine)
  • Incidentally, you may want to check out http://kjl.aatg.org/ for more links to teaching materials for literature for children and young people!

• In this course, we will read the "Zeittafel" given at the end of this book, which chronicles the succession of anti-Jewish laws passed by the Nazis, and some of the main events in the history of the Holocaust.
• The book was written for young adults in 1961, and has won several prizes and been translated into many languages.
• It tells the story of two young boys who grow up in the same house. Friedrich is Jewish and the narrator is not. The story is built around the "Zeittafel" in the back, showing concretely how each of the events listed affects Friedrich and his family, and the narrator and his family.

• This is a marvelous story by the Romantic author Adalbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) about Peter Schlemihl, who accidentally sells his shadow to the devil.
• The edition we have ordered has been simplified and edited to make it readable for intermediate stories. The editors did a great job--I couldn't put this book down until I finished it!

• This book is unfortunately out of print, but we hope you will be able to find a used copy if you're interested in it.
• The book, written for intermediate students, outlines the eventful life of the poet and journalist Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). This also gives you an insight into the history of Germany after the Napoleonic Wars.
• You may know Heine's poem "Die Loreley" ("Ich weiß nicht was soll es bedeuten/Daß ich so traurig bin..."), famously put to music by Friedrich Silcher.
• In this course, we will read Heine's short poem "Der Brief."

Texte

• Gegensätze Online Version des Texts mit Vokabelhilfen und Übungen. Klicken Sie auf "Show all questions": dann sehen Sie die Fragen ungefähr [=roughly, approximately] neben dem Text.

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Relevante Links

Schwarzfahrer

wikipedia.de: Schwarzfahren Offiziell heißt der Artikel "Beförderungserschleichung" [literally: obtaining transportation by devious means]!

Schwarzfahrer Blog Ein Blog zum Thema Schwarzfahren!

imdb: Schwarzfahrer Information über den Film im Internet Movie Database

Der Holocaust

Fragen zur Zeittafel zur Geschichte des 2. Weltkriegs

Sites to visit if you are not very familiar with the facts about the Holocaust

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy A site created by students for the ThinkQuest competition.  A good place to go if you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information at some of the other sites listed here, and are looking for a basic introduction.

Victims of the Holocaust An estimated 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis.  This page, intended as a resource for teachers, provides information about the Nazi persecution of the Jews and about the estimated 5 million other victims of the Holocaust: Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and other Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the dissenting clergy, Communists, Socialists, children of African-German descent, and others. 

Sites to visit if you have already learned a lot about the Holocaust

Cybrary of the Holocaust This site is a tremendous resource, but confusing to navigate ==> you may want to visit their FAQ page first.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Deutsche Seiten

shoah.de Encyclopaedic German site on the Holocaust.

Holocaust-Referenz This German site aims to collect documents that can be used to refute "Holocaust revisionists," i.e. people who claim that the Holocaust never happened (incidentally, it is a crime in Germany to make this claim publicly).

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LRC Arbeitsblätter

Popmusik

Kunst

Geographie

Ausländer in Deutschland

Hessischer Staatsbürgerschaftstest In March 2006, the Bundesland Hessen proposed a test for Ausländer wanting to become German citizens. While the test is controversial, it is certainly excellent practice for German students, so we have created this shorter, annotated multiple choice version of the test for you to try! More info:

• The test, which included many questions most Germans would have difficulty with, was immediately heatedly debated, and it's not clear if and when anything like it will ever be implemented. Our annotated test is a minimally modified version of a 41-item multiple choice version of the test originally prepared by the Financial Times Deutschland to give its readers an idea of the kinds of questions being asked. The complete test included 100 questions, including questions such as "Nennen Sie drei Gründe, warum Sie deutscher Staatsbürger werden wollen!" "Erläutern [=explain] Sie den Begriff [=concept] Holocaust!" and "Erläutern Sie den Begriff Existenzrecht Israels [=the right of Israel to exist]!" A complete version of the test, including "model answers," is available on this page created by the Berliner Morgenpost.

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