Das deutsche Schulsystem (The German School System)
Lesson 1: Awareness of American School Experience
Submitted by Pat Branstad
Objectives:
Content:
Students will:
- Identify characteristics of American high schools
Cultural:
Language: Content Obligatory
Students will:
- Demonstrate knowledge of new and previously learned vocabulary to describe the American high school experience from their personal perspective, including vocabulary dealing with the following topics: ways of getting to school, classes/subjects, grades/classes, extra-curricular activities and vacations/holidays
- Accurately apply question formation and interrogatives to interview classmates about their high school experience
- Accurately apply new and previously learned time expressions to interview classmates and be interviewed by a classmate
- Accurately apply verb-subject agreement and present tense sentence structure to answer classmate’s interview questions
Language: Content Compatible
Students will:
- Utilize the following phrases for clarification: Wie bitte? Wie heisst das auf deutsch?
- Utilize previously learned phrases and vocabulary to ask about likes, dislikes and opinions and to respond to the same
Learning Strategies / Social and Skills Development:
Students will:
- Cooperate with one another in activities
- Activate prior knowledge to identify school topics
Time Frame:
As an introductory lesson to the unit, this lesson will take seven to eight 50 minute class sessions.
Materials Needed:
- Die Schule Trackstar – vocab practice/questions to ask students
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/main/display.php3?track_id=105724- Trackstar Arbeitsblatt
- Unterschrift Lotto Aktivität
Description of Assessment (Performance Project):
Pre-task
- Students generate list of characteristics, topics and issues important to them in talking about their school experience through a “quick write – pair – share – large group” activity. Because of students’ low proficiency level, this will be done in English.
- Teacher presents new vocabulary through TPR instruction or modeling.
- Students complete a Trackstar activity including a number of reading comprehension activities to practice new vocabulary
During-task
- In pairs, students interview one another about their school experience and take notes on the information learned.
Post-task
- Teacher uses information to create a “signature lotto” activity for the class.
- Students ask one another questions about information on lotto sheet; those answering yes may sign the appropriate square.
Assessment:
- Informal assessment through teacher observation during interview process and “signature lotto” activity
- Assessment through completion of worksheet for Trackstar activities
- Assessment through paragraph essay describing personal school experience.
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New Vocabulary
Previously Learned Vocabulary
Previously Learned Vocabulary
Unterschrift Lotto