Today we celebrated German American Friendship Day, beginning today's class with a trivia game lead by Fr. Lussem. Candy was on the line, so naturally the kids did their best to win, though in the end, only one could come out the other side a champion.
We reviewed Haben and Sein both with making up non-sequiturs/sentences and acting them out--my favorite thing to do--and doing a crossword.
Today also was our first time this school year to engage in a listening comprehension exercise. The song of the day was 99 Luftballons by Nena. As will be done intermittently throughout the year, basically we listened to the song, then followed along with lyric sheets that had words omitted. The objective was to fill in the missing words (provided also in a wordbank) based on what was heard. Whenever this is done, and this is important, the kids are supposed to keep the sheets afterward. Every so often, we will have a quiz over the vocabulary from these exercises.
This song exercise also served as a nice and convenient transition point to our historical/geographical theme for the year: The GDR. We discussed the tension of the Cold War that this song is about, and then gave an overview of Germany's division, life under Soviet rule and finally re-unification. Throughout the year, we will have different historical units going into detail over different elements of life in the GDR, so today was basically the intro session.
And now.... the homework.
Answer the following 5 questions with complete sentences. Please choose either English or German. It will be worth double points if answered in complete, German sentences.
- How was Germany divided up by the allies after WW2 (what country controlled each part)?
- What were the two Germanies called, and when was each officially founded?
- Why was the Wall built? When was it built?
- Who were the Stasi and what did they do?
- When did the Wall come down?
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