Submitted by Linda Uscola

Language: German Unit Cultural Theme or Academic Content Area: Self, group, and national identities Target Audience: Traditional High School Year of Instruction: 3 Proficiency Level: Intermediate Low

Standards: Communication:    1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Cultures:    2.1 Connections:    3.1, 3.2 Comparisons:    4.2 Communities:    5.1

Unit Timeframe:

Fifteen to twenty 50 minute class sessions
(Some of these are partial class periods.)

Unit Overview:

Students will obtain information from German, Swiss and U. S. teenagers about what types of groups they belong to and whether the members of these groups have any similar characteristics within each culture and cross-culturally. They will investigate whether specific groups are universal or culturally-bound, whether they have existed over a long period of time or are new organizations, and to what extent membership in these groups plays a role in self-identity.

General Unit References and Resources:

General:

Tedick, D.(Ed.) (1998) The Minnesota Articulation Project's Proficiency-Oriented Language Instruction and Assessment: A Curriculum Handbook for Teachers.

Swing Kids, Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista Home Video, Dept. CS, Burbank, California 91521

Audio clip of student interview

e-mail connections:

http://www.iecc.org or http://www.teaching.com/iecc

das Transatlantische Klassenzimmer listserv:
majordomo@tak.schule.de;
write in message body: subscribe

tak_talk, francais, teenage-life, deutsch
http://maincc.hufs.ac.kr/~mathias/brief.htm

http://www.iearn.org

Music:

http://members.tripod.de/BD16/wizo.htm#wizo003nixundniemand
http://www.arcadiau.ca/cc/alan/music/hosen/
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/d550.html
http://www.snowcrest.net/rcaguila/
http://www.nscee.edu/univ/Librarier/music/info/journals.html

Youth Groups in Germany:

http://de.dir.yahoo.com/Gesellschaft_und_Soziales/Kulturen_und_Gruppen/Jugendliche/Organisationen/

Social Studies Standards:

http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/standards/behav/S2.html

Links or files for unit content:     A new window will open for each lesson.

Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Unit Assessment