Guten Tag,
Saturday was a day of action, of suspense, of death-defying feats of...saying things in German. Also, there was a troll.
We opened with roughly half the class that was present having prepared their "meine Nächste Woche" assignments (which I anticipated, since I had asked for everyone to have it ready), and thus also presenting them.
There was a short historical lecture from a guest speaker, Fr. Wiegert, who spoke about Schwäbisch history and culture as is tradition to do in the school on select occasions.
We had a review of the future tense, along with some basic exercises and practice on that topic, and them moved on after lunch to our main activity for the day. This one either goes very well or horribly, horribly wrong each year depending on the class. This time, it went quite well: "Eisenzeit Krieg" also known as "Ancient Pokebattles." In short, with an elaborate point system, a 20-sided dice, and a bunch of yelling things in German, we had a battle royale between two halves of the class via paper Roman legionnaires and germanic tribesmen. There was also a deus ex machina mechanic in the form of a troll that could only be summoned if a natural 20 was rolled.
It was enough to make the 8th grade class next door wonder if we needed therapy and/or the National Guard as a result of the enthusiastic yelling.
And that's our story.
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Sunday, February 19, 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
11.Februar '17 - #quizlife
Guten Tag!
Today we started off with our quiz over modal verbs, as promised and predicted. This went seemingly well, and then we did a very very quick and uneventful "meine Woche" followed by a classic video from Mirellativegal.
Our lesson was over the future tense. This we will spent a couple weeks on -- not very many, because it's such a simple topic, using "werden" as a helping verb to make a statement into one of the future. The sentence structure is the same as with other tenses that require multiple verbs, SHIM with the "H" (helper) being "werden."
So "I will write my blog," Ich werde meinen Blogeintrag schreiben.
We did a little Wahrsagerei or what was really just silly Mad Libs in the future tense. I provided a subject, an object, and a place, and the kids had 30 seconds to make "predictions" about them.
Example: Hr Walker, ein Schaufel, Wrigley Field. Yielding results like, "Hr. Walker wird einen Schaufen in Wrigley Field finden" or "Hr Walker wird einen Schaufel in Wrigley Field essen" etc.
We did a very short lesson over comparative military strategy and armaments in the Iron Age, comparing Romans to ancient Germans. This will continue next week and segue into my famous, "Eisenzeitkrieg" game which is basically like playing Pokemon battle but with paper cutouts and a large amount of German vocabulary.
An upcoming assignment we shall be starting soon is "Meine Nächste Woche," similar to Meine Woche except in the future tense. I will send out assignments for that forthwith.
Mit Vergnügen
Today we started off with our quiz over modal verbs, as promised and predicted. This went seemingly well, and then we did a very very quick and uneventful "meine Woche" followed by a classic video from Mirellativegal.
Our lesson was over the future tense. This we will spent a couple weeks on -- not very many, because it's such a simple topic, using "werden" as a helping verb to make a statement into one of the future. The sentence structure is the same as with other tenses that require multiple verbs, SHIM with the "H" (helper) being "werden."
So "I will write my blog," Ich werde meinen Blogeintrag schreiben.
We did a little Wahrsagerei or what was really just silly Mad Libs in the future tense. I provided a subject, an object, and a place, and the kids had 30 seconds to make "predictions" about them.
Example: Hr Walker, ein Schaufel, Wrigley Field. Yielding results like, "Hr. Walker wird einen Schaufen in Wrigley Field finden" or "Hr Walker wird einen Schaufel in Wrigley Field essen" etc.
We did a very short lesson over comparative military strategy and armaments in the Iron Age, comparing Romans to ancient Germans. This will continue next week and segue into my famous, "Eisenzeitkrieg" game which is basically like playing Pokemon battle but with paper cutouts and a large amount of German vocabulary.
An upcoming assignment we shall be starting soon is "Meine Nächste Woche," similar to Meine Woche except in the future tense. I will send out assignments for that forthwith.
Mit Vergnügen
Sunday, February 5, 2017
4.Februar '17 - Schwarzfahren
Guten Abend,
We opened our class with "Meine Woche," which as usual followed the hilarity, chills, spills, and thrills of my weekly life. We somehow managed to survive all the excitement.
Our listening exercise involved a culture lesson, learning about how the German train system works and what this phenomenon known as "Schwarzfahren" is. In short, it's riding the train without a ticket, which is risky because of the plain clothes "Controllers" who roam the trains and randomly, out of nowhere could ask for your ticket at any time, and getting caught without a ticket is a 60 Euro fine. We watched a comedy video, "How to Schwarzfahren."
We wrapped up our unit on modal verbs and had some excitement with it: two teams squared off against each other on the board, "Gruppe 1" versus "Schwarzfahren." I chose neither of those names. Ironically, Gruppe 1 was the group of kids who'd been numbered as "2" when I divided up the room. I believe that irony was on purpose.
I will explain in the email summary just exactly what will be on the quiz we will have next week over modal verbs.
We played Kahoot to celebrate the end of the modal verbs, and then we wrapped up our lesson on comparative Iron Age religion. We reviewed and filled out a listening worksheet over Roman and Germanic mythologies and their ritual observance.
And that was our class! Everyone should come prepared next week for a quiz.
Mit Vergnügen
We opened our class with "Meine Woche," which as usual followed the hilarity, chills, spills, and thrills of my weekly life. We somehow managed to survive all the excitement.
Our listening exercise involved a culture lesson, learning about how the German train system works and what this phenomenon known as "Schwarzfahren" is. In short, it's riding the train without a ticket, which is risky because of the plain clothes "Controllers" who roam the trains and randomly, out of nowhere could ask for your ticket at any time, and getting caught without a ticket is a 60 Euro fine. We watched a comedy video, "How to Schwarzfahren."
We wrapped up our unit on modal verbs and had some excitement with it: two teams squared off against each other on the board, "Gruppe 1" versus "Schwarzfahren." I chose neither of those names. Ironically, Gruppe 1 was the group of kids who'd been numbered as "2" when I divided up the room. I believe that irony was on purpose.
I will explain in the email summary just exactly what will be on the quiz we will have next week over modal verbs.
We played Kahoot to celebrate the end of the modal verbs, and then we wrapped up our lesson on comparative Iron Age religion. We reviewed and filled out a listening worksheet over Roman and Germanic mythologies and their ritual observance.
And that was our class! Everyone should come prepared next week for a quiz.
Mit Vergnügen
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