Freitag 17. September

Juche!  Heute ist Freitag!!  Horray!  Today is Friday!!

Spirit Day! - It's so great to see so many students dressed up in school colors!

German 1

The students practiced their ABCs by completing a pre-quiz.  Then they learned chapter 1A vocab words.  We finished up with a video that reinforces the new vocab.  It is a mini drama that goes with each chapter in the book.

German 2

They read about special occasions in Germany, and they completed exercise 11 on page 234.

German 3 & 4

They got to watch the next part of the movie "Der Tunnel."  It's getting quite interesting.  They now have 15 people working at digging out the tunnel and are going to try to bring 32 people from East Berlin through it when it's finished.

Good luck sports' teams and have a great weekend.

Frau S

Donnerstag 16. September

Hippie Day!!

We read today for 15 minutes - SSR.  It's hard to stop after 15 minutes when we have good books.  Some students ask to read longer.   Yaa!

German 1

We practiced our ABCs some more and did the ABC rap.  We began talking about German pronunciation.  We will finish that tomorrow.

German 2

We finished up possessive adjectives and corrected all of our assignments.  WOW!  That was alot of work.

German 3

We finished the assignments that went with our reading passage from yesterday.  

German 4

We started the assignments that went with the adjective endings grammar that we learned yesterday.

Have a great Thursday!

Frau S

Ooops! I think I was on a vacation!

Where did the last few days go??  

Wednesday 9/15 - Crazy Hair Day

I got to see some nice hairdo's today, even many of the teachers got into it.

German 1-They learned their ABCs today in German.  They spelled their names & sang the ABC song!!

German 2-The students had their first quiz of the year - chapter 8A vocabulary.  They continued their work on possessive adjectives with worksheet page 116.  They also worked on a vocabulary worksheet.

German

German 3-The students also took a quiz today on chapter 3A vocabulary.  Then they read pages 70-71.  They will work on exercise 8 page 72 and workbook exercise 5 page 49 today and tomorrow.  

German 4-The students had a quiz too on chapter 8A vocabulary.  They they worked on adjective endings.  They will be working on exercises 4-10 pages 232-235 today and tomorrow.

Tuesday 9/14 - Class Color Day

German 1-They watched a video on German commercials and guessed the product being sold.  Some were very obvious and others were a little more challenging.  

German 2-They continued their practice of possessive adjectives with exercises 6, 7 on page 228 and workbook exercises 5, 6 on page 116.  This has been somewhat challenging for them.  German grammar can  be confusing-but I think they're getting it.

 German 3-They continued working on the narrative past tense.  They finished the assignments that they began on Monday.

German 4-They finished their reading passage they began on Monday and worked on exercises 11, 12 pages 239-240 and workbook exercise 16 page 141.

Monday 9/13 - Jumpsuit Day

German 1-They continued learning about German geography by working on pages 32-35 in their geography packet.

German 2-They started a new grammar section today.  They learned about possessive adjectives.  Then they began working on exercises 4, 5 page 227.  

German 3-They also started a new grammar unit on the narrative past tense.  They will work on exercises 4-7 on pages 68-69 today and tomorrow and do workbook exercises 3, 4 on pages 47-48.

German 4-They began a reading section about the Oktoberfest in Munich.  They read and translated pages 236-238.  

Friday 9/10

German 1-They began a worksheet packet on German geography.  They learned where some of the more important cities and rivers where located and then did pages 29-31.

German 2-They read a reading passage on page 224 in class together and then did exercises 3 on page 225 and workbook exercise 4 on pages 132-133.

German 3 & 4-They began their first movie.  We will be watching the movie "The Tunnel" on the next few Fridays.  The story centers around some East Berliners who escape to West Berlin right after the wall goes up.  They then begin construction on a tunnel to bring more people into West Berlin.  The movie is very good and is in the German language with English subtitles. 

Frau S

Donnerstag 9. September

SSR Today - Every Thursday we do 15 minutes of Silent Sustained  Reading time.  They need to bring a book to read.

German 1 - We finished another culture quiz today.  Then the students got to pick out German names.  They had lots of fun choosing new "egos".  After that they got a homework assignment that is translating German cognates to their English counterparts.

German 2 - We watched our video "soap" to go with our textbook.  Today's episode was about Julia's birthday.  Then they read pages 222 and 225 in the book.

German 3 - They had a reading passage on pages 63-64 to do.  Then they did activities 2 and 3 on page 65.  They also did workbook page 46.

German 4 - The students read pages 227-228 in their textbooks and then worked on exercises 2 and 3 on page 29.

Es ist fast schon Freitag!  It's almost Friday!

Tschüss!

Frau S.

Mittwoch 8. September

On Wednesday the students turned in their syllabus signature page.  First assignment - yaa!  

German 1-The students took a culture quiz to find out how much they knew about Germany or how good of guessers they were.  One student got 25/30 right-awesome.  Then they began another culture quiz that we will go over today in class.

German 2-The students picked out new German names!  Then we began chapter 8 by going over our new vocab.

German 3-The students jumped right into chapter 3 by going over new vocabulary and then reading page 62 in their textbook and exercise 1 on page 63.

German 4-They also began their new chapter by going over chapter 8 vocab and reading page 226.  They worked on workbook page 137 and worksheet page 122. 

Looks like we're off to a great start.

Aufwiedersehen, 

Frau S.

Das Schuljahr beginnt!

Willkommen in der Deutsch Klasse!!  Welcome back students.  It was so great to see all of you and meet my new German 1 students.  Today was an easy day.  All classes went over the syllabus and class rules.  Everyone's first homework assignment for tomorrow will be to return their signature page that goes with their syllabus.  Be sure to have mom or dad sign it too.  Thanks for a great first day & I'll see you all tomorrow.  Bis morgen!

Frau Stenberg

National Foreign Language Standards

EGF Senior High German classes follow the five national standards in foreign language. If you have any questions about these standards, please feel free to contact me.

Communication
Communicate in Language Other Than English
Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotion, and exchange opinions.
Standard 1.2: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an uadience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

Cultures
Gain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.

Connections
Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its culture.

Comparisons
Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture
Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

Communities
Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home and Around the World
Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond their school setting.
Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.

Getting Ready For School

I've been busy over the last two weeks getting ready for my students. The classroom will look a little different-we had the carpet removed. The room is very bright now. Plus, I roll around really good on my chair. New bulletin boards have been put. I've been busy printing out materials for the first week of school. I'm so excited to see so many students back again-welcome back German 2, 3 &4. German 1 this year looks great-so many new students. I'm very excited to get to know you all of you.

Well, one month of summer has gone by and it is finally getting hot. No new information on the German trip. There are currently 10 students signed up. Unfortunately we didn't win the free trips. Darn. I'm starting to think about this fall already. I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July weekend. Have fun & Stay safe.
Frau S.

German trip 2009

Getting ready to leave for the Minneapolis.
Kaille, Kendra, Ellen, Matt, Gabe, Kree, Me, Kate, Laura, Chelsey, Randi.

Missing from the pic: Leah, Alli, Whitney.




















The girls in Austria. Don't we all look awake after traveling for two days!!

Top to bottom:
Kate, Kree, Ellen, Chelsey, Laura, Kendra
Alli, Leah, Kaillee, Randi, Me

Missing from the pic: Matt, Gabe, Whitney















At the hotel in Munich.

From back to front:

Gabe, Alli, Matt, Randi, Kendra, Kree, Leah, Whitney, Chelsey, Ellen, Me, Laura, Kate, Kaillee.















At Marienplatz in Munich.

From front to back:
Kaillee, Alli, Kree, Laura, Leah, Ellen, Randi, Me, Whitney, Kendra, Matt, Chelsey, Kate, Gabe
















Along the river in Lucerne Switzerland.

Kree, Ellen, Kate, Gabe, Alli, Chelsey, Kaillee, Laura, Randi, Leah, Kendra, Matt, Me, Whitney
















At the Rhine Falls on the border of Germany & Switzerland.

Alli, Chelsey, Kree, Leah, Randi, Laura, Matt, Kaillee, Kendra, Kate, Gabe, Ellen

Missing from the pic: Whitney
















Getting ready for the long trip home.

Thomas-our tour guide
Laura, Alli, Chelsey, Kree, Kate, Kaillee, Whitney, Matt, Randi, Kendra, Gabe, Leah

Missing from pic: Ellen-she was on her way to Norway.