Course
and Materials Overview
This
page is a compilation of downloadable and online resources
that may be useful for instructors wishing to teach
a third semester German course designed to prepare students
to take fourth semester content courses. The course
includes:
- A
content-based syllabus covering a broad range of topics
in order to prepare students for the range of fourth-semester
content courses they can choose from the following
term, including "Kennen lernen," youth culture,
"Ausländer in Deutschland," German
history from the Holocaust to Reunification, and a
final unit on Literature and Philosophy
- Four
feature films and miscellaneous shorter videos, which
constitute the listening comprehension component of
the course
- Vocabulary
lists and accompanying exercises designed to equip
students to communicate on the above content areas
- 8
class days in a computer classroom. The first introduces
students to the course website; four are devoted to
structured web search activities and one to an exploration
of websites on the Holocaust, one to an exploration
of the interactive Drehort Neubrandenburg CD-ROM,
and one to a synchronous chat session on a short text
by Nietzsche.
- A
systematic review and extension of grammar from the
first year. Students study the material independently
using the "Interactive Grammar Tutor" online,
and then apply the grammar in content-based activities
in class.
- A
final video project in lieu of a final oral or written
examination: students work in groups to create a 5-7
minute video.
- Four
250-300 word writing assignments
- A
"language learning journal" assigned roughly
once a week, for which students find a German-related
activity that interests them and do whatever it isfor
just under an hour, then briefly and informally write
up what they did.
Only
resources used specifically for this course are listed
on this page; resources used more generally in our courses
such as the "Interactive Grammar Tutor," the
"German on the Web" link list, information
on learning strategies etc., are available on the general
resource page.
Please
use the "Contact/Feedback" link in the sidebar
for questions and comments, or to inquire about incorporating
any materials from this site in materials for commercial
use.
Downloadable
Resources
Click
on the links to download the Word files. Feel free to
use and edit them to suit your needs. Please use the
"Contact/Feedback" link in the sidebar if
you have trouble downloading something, if something
you'd like to download isn't here, if you would like
an electronic copy of the most recent detailed lesson
plans for this course, or if you'd like me to mail you
a copy of one or more of the articles listed below.
- Winter
2003 Syllabus in Calendar Form
- Information
on Reading Assignments
- Franz
Hohler: "66 Fragen"
- Source:
Larry Wells, Ed. Mitlesen, Mitteilen,
2nd Ed. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1995. Pages 58-62.
- "Aufreißersprüche."
- Source:
Moser, Young & Wolf. Schemata: Lesestrategien.
Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1997.
Page 167.
- "Gegensätze."
- Edita
Bermel-Rodominsky: "Ich bin nach Deutschland
gekommen"
- Source:
C. Schaffernicht, Ed. Zu Hause in der Fremde,
Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, 1981
- Advanced
Chemistry: "Fremd im eigenen Land"
- Source:
Heide Buhmann, Hanspeter Haeseler, Eds. HipHop
XXL. Fette Reime und Fette Beats in Deutschland.
Schlüchtern: ROCKBUCH Verlag Buhmann
& Haeseler, 2001. Pages 18-19.
- Chronik:
Nachkriegsgeschichte
- Source:
Leblans et al. Was ist deutsch? Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000. Pages 101-5.
- "Ich
war stolz auf dieses Land"
- Zeittafel
zur Geschichte Des 2. Weltkriegs
- Text
[written specifically for this course]
- Wolfgang
Borchert: "Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch"
- Nelly
Sachs: "Chor der Geretteten"
- Source:
Lore Barbara Foltin, Hubert Heinen, Eds. Paths
to German Poetry. New York/Toronto: Dodd,
Mead & Co., 1969. Pages 138-41.
- Note
the online version
of the text, with detailed vocabulary
help and other information and leading questions
to help students understand this difficult
text.
- Materials
for "Chor der Geretteten"
- Paul
Celan: Todesfuge
- "Schneewittchen"
- Willy
Pribil: "Schneewittchen--frei nach Sigmund
Freud"
- Anneliese
Meinert: "Rotkäppchen 65"
- Source:
Larry Wells, Ed. Mitlesen, Mitteilen,
2nd Ed. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1995. Pages 58-62.
- Gedichte
[Ernst Jandl: "Jazz"; Christian Morgenstern:
"Das ästhetische Wiesel", "Vice
Versa", "Der Seufzer", "Der
Werwolf"; Günter Grass: "Ein amerikanischer
Flugzeugträger..."; Heinrich Heine:
"Der Brief", "Der Tod, das ist
die kühle Nacht"; Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe: "Wandrers Nachtlied"; Rainer
Maria Rilke: "Der Panther", "Herbsttag",
"Immer wieder"]
- Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe: "Der Zauberlehrling"
- Friedrich
Nietzsche: "Von den drei Verwandlungen"
[from Also Sprach Zarathustra]
- Information
on Video Materials Used in the Course
- Feature
Films
- Nach
Fünf im Urwald (It's a Jungle Out There)
- Lola
rennt (Run Lola Run)
- The
movie was made in 1998, directed by Tom
Tykwer, and stars Franka Potente and Moritz
Bleibtreu.
- It
is readily available e.g. from amazon.com.
Click
here for more information about the
movie in the Internet Movie Database and
elsewhere.
- Materials
for Lola rennt
- Sonnenallee
- Hitlerjunge
Salomon (Europa, Europa)
- The
movie was made in 1990, directed by Agnieszka
Holland, and stars Marco Hofschneider.
It is based on the improbable true story
of Salomon Perel, who survived the Holocaust
as a young boy.
- It
is available from the Goethe Institut
Inter Nationes, with or without English
subtitles. Click
here for more information about the
movie in the Internet Movie Database and
on the Goethe Institut Inter Nationes
site.
- Materials
for Europa, Europa
- Other
Video Materials
- Drehort
Neubrandenburg
- This
is an interactive CD-ROM produced by Franziska
Lys at Northwestern University. It consists
of a series of video clips shot on location
in Neubrandenburg in former East Germany
in 1991. Students can view the video with
German or English subtitles, or both (or
neither), and can do a variety of exercises
to practice vocabulary and listening comprehension.
- Click
here for more information, including
ordering information.
- Bildschirm
28: Sketch und Humor von Loriot
- This
video is no longer available (we obtained
it from Inter Nationes), but it should
be possible to obtain other copies of
the two classic Loriot cartoons we use,
"Feierabend" and "Das Ei."
Each is roughly 3 minutes long.
- Materials
for "Feierabend"
- Materials
for "Das Ei"
- German
TV Commercials Volume 2
- Unfortunately,
I can't trace the source for this video
==> will not include materials for
use with it here, but please feel free
to contact me if you think you may have
the same video and are looking for accompanying
materials
- Schwarzfahrer
(Black Rider)
- This
humorous 12-minute video about people
riding a tram, made in 1993 by Pepe Danquart,
is useful for introducing the topic of
racism. I won't give away the plot twist
here. Click
here for more details and ordering
information.
- Materials
for Schwarzfahrer
- Shoah
- Children’s
Stories by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann [Struwwelpeter]
- Fantasia
- This
is the well-known Disney film. We show
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
(roughly 10 minutes long) to students
for fun after they have read and discussed
Goethe's poem "Der Zauberlehrling."
The clip is a surprisingly faithful rendition
of the poem, with Mickey Mouse as the
apprentice.
- Other
Course Materials
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Online
Resources
Course
Homepage
- Deutsch
221/231 The homepage for the course includes
access to all the materials listed further below,
as well as the following:
- Online
homework schedule for the semester
- Information
on the "Language Learning Journal"
- Information
on the final video project
- "Kursprozeduren"
(including grading scheme, recommended texts,
etc.)
- Relevant
links
Web
Search Activities
Annotated
Texts
- Chor
der Geretteten Includes detailed vocabulary help
and other information and leading questions to help
students understand this difficult text.
- Der
Panther Includes detailed vocabulary help, background
information, and an exercise for fun.
Vocabulary
Writing
assignments for the semester
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