Catherine Nierescher

SYLLABUS FOR GERMAN II

TEACHER: CATHERINE NIERESCHER

EMAIL: cnierescher@ycsd.york.va.us

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides intermediate grammar, conversational skill development, intermediate reading and composition, and cultural studies.

OBJECTIVES

1. The student will use and understand more complex materials in listening and reading.
2. The student will refine oral and written communicative skills with increased use of German.
3. The student will increase cultural awareness through the study of geography, history, and the customs of Germanic people.

TEXTBOOK: German II uses Komm Mit (level 1)

CURRICULUM REFERENCE

1. YCSD German II Curriculum Guide
2. VA State SOL’s

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER: Unit 1 -- BEI DEN BAUMANNS -- Review communicative functions, grammar, and vocabulary: Asking for and giving information about yourself and others. Describing yourself and others. Expressing likes and dislikes. Identifying people and places. Giving and responding to compliments. Expressing wishes when buying things. Making plans. Ordering food, talking about how something tastes. Present tense of haben and sein. Regular and stem-changing verbs. The möchte-forms and Modal auxiliary verbs. The nominative and accusative forms of the definite and indefinite articles. Pronouns/nominative and accusative cases. Possessives/nominative and accusative cases.

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER: Unit 2 -- BASTIS PLAN -- Review communicative functions, grammar, and vocabulary: Expressing obligations. Extending and responding to invitations. Offering help and telling what to do. Asking and telling what to do. Saying that you need something else. Telling where you were and what you bought. Discussing gift ideas. Expressing likes and dislikes. Expressing preferences and favorites. The Modal auxiliary verbs: müssen, können, sollen, wollen and mögen. Interrogatives. Clauses introduced by weil and denn. Command forms of verbs. Past tense of sein. The nominative and accusative forms of the definite and indefinite articles. Pronouns/nominative and accusative cases. Possessives/nominative and accusative cases.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER: Unit 3 -- WO WARST DU IN DEN FERIEN? -- Reporting past events: talking about activities and places. Asking how someone liked something. Expressing enthusiasm or disappointment. Responding enthusiastically or sympathetically. Conversational past tense. Narrative past tense of haben and sein. Indirect objects/Dative Case. The Dative case forms of the definite and indefinite articles. Pronouns/dative case. Possessives/dative case.

FEBRUARY/MARCH: Unit 4 -- GESUND LEBEN -- Expressing approval or disappointment. Asking for information and responding emphatically or agreeing with reservations. Asking and telling what you may or may not do. Giving reasons. Expressions of time, place, frequency, and quantity. The Modal auxiliary verbs: müssen, können, sollen, wollen and dürfen. Reflexive verbs/nominative and accusative cases. Jeder, jede, jedes/nominative case. Für-preposition/accusative case.

MARCH/APRIL: Unit 5 -- GESUND ESSEN -- Expressing skepticism. Expressing regret. Expressing preferences. Calling someone’s attention to something and responding. Comparatives and superlatives. Using dieser, diese, dieses and welcher, welche, welches/nominative case. Verbs used with the dative case. The possessives/nominative, accusative, dative.

APRIL/MAY: Unit 6 -- GUTE BESSERUNG! -- Inquiring about someone’s health and responding. Making suggestions. Asking about and expressing pain. Asking for and giving advice. Expressing hope. Verbs used with the dative case. Using reflexive pronouns/accusative and dative cases. Using the conversational past tense. Dative case to express the idea of something too expensive, too large, or too small for you.

MAJOR CLASS REQUIREMENTS

1. Students are required to study vocabulary regularly, complete all homework assignments, and participate in class in the target language.
2. Students are required to come to class on time, prepared with all necessary materials.
3. Assessments include Section Quizzes, Section Tests, Unit Tests, Projects, Oral and Written Proficiency Assessments, Listening Assessments, and Semester Exams.

GRADING SYSTEM

Grades for each quarter will be computed as follows:

-- Tests 30%

--Projects 25%

-- Quizzes 25%

-- Homework 10%

--Classwork/Oral Participation 10%

Grades are figured by cumulative point average.

STATE STANDARDS OF LEARNING OBJECTIVES/STATE LEARNING COMPETENCIES/YORK COUNTY OBJECTIVES:

Frau Nierescher is available at: cnierescher@ycsd.york.va.us

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German II SOLs :

Person to Person Communication

GII.1 The student will exchange spoken and written information and ideas in German.

GII.2 The student will demonstrate skills necessary to initiate, sustain, and close brief oral and written exchanges in German using familiar and recombined phrases and sentences.

Listening and Reading for Understanding

GII.3 The student will understand basic spoken and written German based on new topics in a familiar context that are presented through a variety of media.

GII.4 The student will use verbal and non-verbal cues to interpret spoken and written texts in German.

Oral and Written Presentation

GII.5 The student will present orally and in writing information in German that combines learned as well as original language in simple sentences and paragraphs.

GII.6 The student will present rehearsed and unrehearsed material in German including skits, poems, plays, short narratives, and/or songs.

Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products

GII.7 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the perspectives, practices, and products of German-speaking cultures and how they are interrelated.

Making Connections through Language

GII.8 The student will use information acquired in the study of German and information acquired in other subject areas to reinforce one another.

GII.9 The student will demonstrate an understanding of cultural similarities and differences between the German-speaking world and the United States.

GII.10 The student will develop a better understanding of the English language through the study of German.

Communication across Communities

GII.11 The student will develop and apply German language skills and cultural knowledge in opportunities beyond the classroom setting for recreational, educational, and occupational purposes.

C/T8.1 The student will communicate through application software.

C/T8.2 The student will communicate through networks & telecommunication.

C/T8.3 The student will have a basic understanding of computer processing, storing, retrieval & transmission technologies.

C/T8.4 The student will process, store, retrieve, & transmit electronic information.