Grade 11 Experiencing Creative Works

It is expected that students will:

• view, listen to, and read creative works, and respond to them in various ways

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Students' developing language skills will foster a greater appreciation of creative works and their cultural contexts. Responses should involve the use of a significant amount of German language.

• Have students read or listen to a selection of classic stories in German and complete one or more of the following assignments:
  • create a pattern book for young children
  • illustrate a story to clarify meaning
  • role-play a story
  • change one element of a story throughout to modernize or update it
  • record a story on audiotape
• Ask students to collect a series of photos and video clips of famous landmarks in German-speaking countries or regions, using a variety of resources (e.g., CD-ROM, the Internet, videos, brochures, magazines, books). Invite each student to choose a German museum or town and use the class resources to prepare a guided tour of the site. Students could display their pictures along the classroom walls as stops on their tours. Each tour might end in a restaurant, where a local specialty can be sampled.
• Present a short story or folk tale, using overhead illustrations to help students follow the plot. Do not provide the ending for the story. Have students work in pairs to create their own endings and present these to the class (e.g., through role plays, dramatic readings, illustrations, puppet plays).
• Suggest that students read German-language poetry and respond to it in personal ways (e.g., set it to music, read it aloud with musical background, illustrate it). Then challenge students to write their own poems in a similar style.

At this level, students can use German to respond to creative works in a wide variety of ways and with increasing detail. Through oral interaction, journal entries, visual representations, and short written tests, they can demonstrate an increasing level of sophistication in their responses.

• Before students prepare representations of classic German-language stories, work with them to develop criteria that can form the basis of a checklist or rating scale for self-, peer, and teacher assessment. For example:
  • conveys theme and mood of the original
  • draws on original characters and events
  • uses detail to develop interest and engagement
  • incorporates some elements of the style of the original
  • attempts to use language to create a specific effect or mood
  • conveys a clear perspective on the original

  Similar criteria could be used to assess the endings students develop for folk tales or short stories, as well as the poems they model on German-language poetry.

• When students make oral presentations, such as simulated guided tours, note the extent to which they:
  • offer and support consistent points of view
  • express their individuality through their responses
  • indicate openness and willingness to consider new or different ideas and experiences
  • attempt to engage others

Print Materials

• Das Max und Moritz Buch
• Lies Doch Mal!
• Von Helden und Schelmen
• Von Weisen und Narren

• Jung in Deutschland
• A Love Divided: Berlin

• Deutsch Heute Neue 1, 2, 3 (Neue Ausgabe)
• Heute Hier, Morgen Dort - Lieder, Chansons und Rockmusik im Deutsch-Unterricht

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