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Texts/Supplementary Materials
Deutsch Aktuell 2, Deutsch Aktuell 3, Lies mit Mir and related workbooks for writing
practice, listening exercises to accompany corresponding video series and testing and assessment series which provide closure
to the above series for each chapter/unit.
Functional Units
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foods
- table manners
- ordering and requesting
- shopping in bakeries and groceries
- everyday life in the German-speaking
countries
- festvals and holidays
- using the postal service
- driving
- the environment
- Central Europe
- regional differences and history
- family and neighbors
- having fun
- Austria and Switzerland
- generational conflict
- living a healthy life
- The European Community
- relationships
- poetry
Each functional unit contains elements for reading,
speaking, listening and writing in German.
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Grammatical Units
- genitive case of possession
- review of modal auxiliaries
- der- words
- demonstrative pronouns
- expanded use of question words
- adjectives after der- words
- adjectives used as nouns
- adjectives not preceded by articles
- da- and wo- compounds
- the past perfect tense
- warden
- verbs with prepositions
- coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
- present perfect and narrative past with regular and irregular verbs
- time expressions in accusative/dative (als, wenn, wann)
- present subjunctive
- verb/preposition combinations
- relative pronouns after propositions
- if/then clauses
- comparative and superlative
- present perfect of modals
- double infinitives
- narrative past of modals
- present and past subjunctive of modals
- modals in
- passive voice
Methodology
Mr. Lewis is a firm believer in active participation. In his classes students must participate daily in class discussion
and activities and earn points for doing so. There will be days in whic "German only" will be the rule, so as to encourage
taking risks in expressing oneself in the language. On the average, students should volunteer in class two to three
times per class period and more so in classes with below averagge enrollment. Speaking exercises will be balanced with
writing assignments, skit performances, listening exercises in the language laboratory and cultural units which are often
enhanced through the use of authentic materials and through videos and DVDs. Mr. Lewis strives to achieve a positive
classroom environment where everyone is valued and appreciated. His goal is to achieve a classroom where students and
teacher can form a school "family" that can inevitably lead to greated student academic achievement
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Grading
In determining student progress, Mr. Lewis uses total points earned to determine student progress. However, benchmark
assessment grades are automatically scored by the Skyward System as 25% of the ter's mark and the Semester Final Exam as 20%
of the semester mark.
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