Guten Tag,
Today began like any other Saturday, with a sunrise and then German school.
Firstly we did our listening comprehension exercise, using a German translation of the classic "What does the Fox Say?" (Wie macht der Fuchs denn) as was found by one of the students as a previous homework exercise (the one where they looked for videos in German). And of course we simply had to view the original afterward!
We then went into a lesson/review (for some) on the Perfect tense, using both my instruction as well as a video by one of my instructional podcasters, Deutsch Für Euch (here) . Up until the pause, we then worked on short little essays over silly or embarassing things we did in the past.
After the break, we began the first of our historical studies for the year, this one being over the ancient germanic tribes of the Iron Age, the first germanic people groups we have record of in what is now Germany and its confines. The class divided up into groups to research the 5 main tribes identified by Imperial Roman historians Tacitus and Pliny (Elder). Next week they will use what they gathered to make presentations over their tribes.
Once the tribal unit is done, we will eventually move on to the later centuries (up to the "sacking" of Rome) and the Holy Roman Empire. My goal in this is to cover how Germany came to become a country (up until the pronouncement of the German Empire) as this sort of in-depth background on Germany is unheard of in most schools.
The homework was simply to finish any incomplete research on their assigned tribe from today.
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