Today we focused on economics! No, I didn't spend 3 hours playing Monopoly with them (no one could pay me enough to play Monopoly), I promise.
We began with the song "Millionär" by Die Prinzen, not only going through the lyrics for listening comprehension, but also dividing up in pairs and highlighting all the adjectives in the song, and then putting them into their comparitive forms as a class, e.g. "groß" to "größer" and "reich" to "reicher" etc.
As planned, we then did a comparison on the board between the Imperial Roman Empire and Iron Age Germania, with each student coming up, selecting an adjective from the board and putting it (in comparitive form) in the column they thought appropriate, for Rome or for Germany. We then put these all into sentences on a handout that was labelled, "Wir denken" and "Wir wissen." Their opinions expressed on the board were all recorded under "Wir denken."
We then discussed briefly how reality may differ or be similar to the opinions they wrote on the board, and these went under "Wir wissen" on the handout. Mostly, the kids were spot on! "Rome war größer/bevölkerter/reicher/stärker als alter Deutschland" is indeed right; there was some discussion on the points regarding "religiöser" and "erfolgreicher" (what does it mean to be successful? We managed to avoid getting into 'trans-national synchretism versus tribal polytheism' thankfully!)
After the break, we went through and filled out/discussed a handout over how economics worked in Imperial Rome and in Eisenzeit Deutschland/Magna Germania.
When the day was done, we cleaned up, and spent the final 10 minutes playing basketball, which is becoming a thing on days when the weather is nice.
And now the Hausaufgabe:
Create an advertisement!
- You are a Roman city-dwelling citizen back in the 1st century, looking to sell something of yours
- It must be something they would've actually had, e.g. clothes, jewelry, animals, weaponry/armor, carts, chariots, slaves, land, property, etc.
- In a half-page (at least) describe the item you wish to sell, why it is an appealing item (e.g. "Dieser Esel frisst nicht viel und arbeitet gut den ganzen Tag!")
- List acceptable forms of payment, which we went over in class (either a specific price in Roman coins, or what items you will accept in barter)
- Give contact info of some kind, e.g. your name and where you live (NO PHONE NUMBERS OR EMAIL ADDRESSES! This is 2000 years ago!)
- Make it pretty
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