Sunday, December 9, 2012

Dezember ist hier, in in zwei Wochen, Winterpause!

German 1
Chapter 5 Review - vocab, questions, etc.

German 2
Case in German - Explanation


 German 3 - Spielen wir ein Brettspiel!!
Pirate's Cove in German 
Ticket to Ride Rules in English 
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Letzte Woche Novembers! 2012 geht bald zu Ende!

Deutsch 2
The Genitive Case - first look
Genitive Case - Conversation Exercise
Wessen CD ist das denn?
Powerpoint Presentation - Was gibt's zu essen?
Was ist deine Lieblingsmahlzeit? - Fragen!
Wessen Salat??
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Neue Woche - man spürt das Herannahen von Thanksgiving!

Deutsch 3
Radfahren - Vokabeln
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Wahltag in den USA, den 6. November 2012

Deutsches Wochenende! am 9. November 2012
Deutsche Welle Reporting on American Election

Deutsch 1
Speaking about your classes in German
Nominative Case in German - Overview
Accusative Case in German - Overview
Accusative Case in German - short writing assignment
Exercise with the Accusative Case - Indefinite articles
Exercises with the Accusative Case - Definite articles
Schule!! - Essay Assignment

Deutsch 2 
Scharaden - Hausarbeit und Vergnügen
Deutsch 2 Quiz - modal verbs in past tense.
Imperfektaufsatz - Was machtest du am Wochenende?
Tiere der Welt Projekt

Deutsch 3 
Die Oma Kommt - Fragen
Familie!! Wir sind die Familie Enloe! - Gruppenarbeit
Nachbarn - als/wann/wenn
Die Schweiz und Zürich - Anmerkungen - Projekte
Fragen - Die Schweiz 
Relative Pronouns - Notes
Relativpronomen - Übung 
Relative Pronouns - more exercises

Deutsch 4
Thema 3 Vokabeln
Thema 3 - Wessis und die Ossis - jeder für sich selbst!
Sprachübung - Interview / Auseinandersetzung - Wessis und Ossis...
Protestschilder - Thema 3

AP Deutsch
ein Landarzt - Vokabeln, Abschnitt 2
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Letzte Woche, Oktober 2012

Deutsch 1

Deutsch 2



Deutsch  3

Deutsch 4
Nosferatu - eine Symphonie des Grauens - Hintergrund
Nosferatu - Rotten Tomatoes Entry
Nosferatu's meaning - wikipedia entry
Nosferatu - movie stills
Nosferatu - booklet project
Hausaufgabe - Kapitel 3 - Seiten 268-273, Übungen A - E, nicht schriftlich, sondern nur mündlich, allein zu Hause, mit Vorsicht und Verständnis. Von diesen Übungen machen Sie eine grosse Liste von neuen Vokabeln, Phrasen, Verben, usw, die Sie nicht gut kennen, oder die Sie interessant oder nützlich finden. Vielleicht werden Sie einige Vokabeln in Ihre Nosferatu Buch integrieren.


AP Deutsch
Franz Kafka - ein Landarzt - complete text
ein Landarzt - Hintergrund - wilikpedia.de
ein Landarzt - Übersetzungen



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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Homecoming - Woche, 2012 Oktober

Deutsch 1
gern - expressing that you like to do something
Listening Exercise #1
Listening Exercise #2
 For the test audio files we did today, Thursday, October 25, 2012 - go to Blackboard / Assignments / Kapitel 3 / Audio for Tests

Deutsch 2
Kapitel 3A Skit Project
Ferien expressions!!
Big List of Irregular Verbs

Deutsch 3
an der Kreuzung - Projekt
The Listening portion of our Kapitel 2 test can be found at Blackboard - Assignments/Kapitel 2/audio for test - Kapitel 2, along with the test itself - available after 12:00 PM, October 26, 2012
 

Deutsch 4
Aufsatz: Schrecklich mit dem Computer!! - Benutzen Sie einige von den Vokabeln auf Seite 37 und stellen Sie sich vor, wie ärgerlich und unmöglich Computertechnologie sein könnte! Seien Sie kreativ, und auch phantasievoll. Ihre Erfahrung darf fiktiv sein. Eine Seite, bitte, mit doppeltem Zeilenabstand. Fällig - am Freitag!
Gewalt im Fernsehen - eine Radiosendung


AP Deutsch
Themenauswahlmöglichkeiten
Tagesereignis - fällig Freitag
Portfolio - auch fällig Freitag
 
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Monday, September 24, 2012

die letzte Woche Septembers, 2012

Wie spät ist es? Wann kommst du rüber?
Deutsch 1
Kapitel 2A - Review and three new verbs
Familienprojekt!!
Time Words in German - important time adverbials
Zum Kaufhaus! Conversation Exercise using time
Telling Time in German
Time Expressions Review

Websites for Creating a Coat of Arms
List of German mottos for your herald - choose one!
Making a coat of arms - ImaginOn
The Tree maker - coats of arms - symbols, clip art,etc
The Medieval Classroom - The Coat of Arms.

Deutsch2
Word order of pronouns - conversation

Deutsch 3
Fragen, Kapitel 2A
Andere Fragen - in der Stadtmitte!
Strong Verbs whose principal parts you should know!
Sehenswürdigkeiten einer Stadt
Cities to Choose From!
Past tense Tense of verbs - notes
Stadtplan Projekt 
An der Nordsee

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

in der Mitte Septembers, 2012

Homer Simpson hat auch eine Familie!!
Deutsch 1
Familientreffen! Gespräch!
Sabines Familie! - eine Grafik!

Deutsch 2
Reflexive Verbs in German 
Reflexive Verbs - Exercise 1
Reflexive Verbs, Exercise 2
Reflexivverben - notes 
Reflexive Verbs - quick review
Present Perfect Tense, Review
Jugendherberge Poster Project
In der Jugendherberge - Fragen zum Text! 
Verb Conjugation Review 
Reflexive Verbs Conversation
Fahren wir dahin!!


Deutsch 3
Paper rubric, Kapitel 1
das Geburtsdatum Karl des Grossen
Einhard - the Life of Charlemagne
The Monk of St. Gall - Life of Charlemagne
Karl der Grosse - Wikipedia Entry
Lektion 2A - Sehenswürdigkeiten in der Stadt
Exercise - Kapitel 2A - Quiz

AP German
Meinungen ausdrücken - wichtige Vokabeln
Fragen zur Diskussion - Aufruhr in der arabischen Welt
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

eine neue Woche!!

GAPP Information!
GAPP 2013 Information Sheet - planning - document 

Deutsches Wochenende, anyone? Let me know!!

Deutsch 1
A little review- fill in the blanks for appropriate words!
Hallo! - sound files don't work...sorry!!!!
Wie geht's? Wie geht's Dir? Wie geht's Ihnen?
Die Zahlen, 0-20
Wer ist das? Drawing Assignment
City Paper Project 
Wo wohnst du? Key Vokabeln


Deutsch 3
Chiemsee - Satellit-Bilder - Google Maps
Chiemsee Alpenland - Touristen-Website
Erzählung - Reise zum Chiemsee
Deutsche Bundesbahn - Website
Train Videos

Deutsch 4
Übungen, Kapitel 1 und Thema 1 Vokabeln
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Some German Homework - Oh wie schön!

As I struggle a bit with the latest version of Blackboard version 9, which I generally find to be a messy pile of badly written software, I'll update your homework from here for a while. It's entirely possible I might abandon Blackboard. It's a rude piece of software!

Deutsch 1

Review, of course, the basic set of greetings in German
Finish the handout on introducing yourself in German
Revisit the presentation: Wer ist das?? Finish studying it at home.

Now we look at some German Geography!! Here is a map of the 16 German states (Bundesländer). Color it neatly and search the Internet for the GERMAN NAMES of these 16 German states. Label your map clearly. You should color it lightly, because we'll be adding more landmarks to the map (capital cities, major rivers, mountains, regions, etc.)

German names!! Your names are all very nice, but let's reimage ourselves with GERMAN-SOUNDING NAMES. Here is a link with a short history of German first names through the ages. Choose one that you like and can easily pronounce. And peruse a list of common German last names to find one that fits nicely with your chosen German first name.

Deutsch 2
Review your luggage vocabulary and reading about the Hoffmann's travels to America.
Read and study pages 2-9 closely.
write exercises #5 and #6 out fully on sheet of paper.
Comparative and Superlative Forms - exercise

Deutsch 3
Wir beginnen Kapitel 1A - Die Welt! Hier ist eine kurze Übung über dieses Thema und den Dialog, den Sie auf Seite 4 finden können.
Hausaufgabe: Lesen Sie genau Seite 2-9, und machen Sie die Übung fertig. Schreiben Sie Übung 4, Seite 5 völlig aus!
Fragen zur Welt - Geografie, bitte!
ob und dass - subordinating conjunctions
weil - subordinating conjunction


AP Deutsch

Am Freitag sind Ihre ersten Portfolios fällig. Am Dienstag fangen wir mit den Tagesereignissen an. Und hier ist eine kurze Übung über Harry Potter!!

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Welcome Back!

So a new school begins at Enloe, and new hopes and aspirations. I am pretty thrilled about it and I am sure you are also. My goal for this blog this year is to post announcements pertinent to every Enloe German student here: things like articles, German videos, links, pictures related to German-speaking culture. SOme of these posting will become a basis for an assignment or a reaction post to our discussion boards. I'll just say, check kandah.org, and BAM! your posting will be there!

For your convenience I include links here for your course syllabi for German classes at Enloe. You'll need to be able to open Adobe PDF files in order to view many of the files I make available to you all.
  1. German 1
  2. German 2
  3. German 3
  4. German 4
  5. AP German
Blackboard will still be a major component of our classroom. Be sure you can log onto Blackboard. We are using a new version, Blackboard version 9, and you can get to this link from here and from the right-hand side of this page, where a lot og high-frequency links for our course can be found. 

I've been working on a German grammar review book, but still haven't finished it. A work-in-progress draft of this treatise can be found at this link. Remember, this book is copyrighted by yours truly!

Someone at the open house asked about ways to to listen to German broadcasts from home, for instance, while eating, or for background sound. This is an excellent way to create a more immersive environment at home. I would suggest a multitude of Internet resources, streamed from a laptop or tablet of some kind. Here are a few of my favorite German media sources:

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen - ZDF - One of Germany's oldest public networks
Deutsche Welle - excellent source of news, culture, music, etc.

There are others, for example youtube.com channels. Have fun exploring!
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Sunday, July 8, 2012

off to Japan!

A two week sojourn in the far east is in my playbook starting this afternoon. I'll try to get some pictures up here for those lucky ones following kandah.org. I decided to eschew facebook as my mode of mass communication/social networking. Not really sure why. But in any case, I'll probably miss my home for two weeks, but I will relish basking in the Japanese culture.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Etwas Aktuelles

The summer is upon us and what a scorcher it has been. After wishing all my Enloe Seniors farewell, I embarked on a summertime that by all accounts will shape up to be a banner summer, a memorable summer.. First started off with visiting friends in Carolina and simply decompressing around home with several books on the reading list: Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann, a dense, beautifully written 20th century novel by the great Nobel Prize Winning German author, and The Physics of the Future, a well-written set of predictions of what the world will be like in 50 and hundred years based on the current-edge cutting research efforts surrounding nanotechnology, genetics, robotics, physics and quantum mechanics (Higgs Boson, anyone?) written by a Japanese atom scientist Michio Kaku, and I just began a book describing the life of times of the Prussian King Wilhelm II, by the British historian Lamar Cecil. Good reading is always an essential summer pastime for me.

I spent a week in Montezuma, New Mexico with teachers from all the world (and two fine colleagues from Enloe High School!) getting trained and exposed to the International Baccalaureate curriculum. I was highly impressed with the workshop and feel it might inject a more modern, wholistic angle to the German program at Enloe. We not only studied hard at the sessions, but we also partied hard at the workshop, with decent food, and lots of beverages and diversions planned for us throughout the week that included a guitar concert in the Dwan Light Sanctuary, an austere, round, acoustically majestic building topped with prism-bearing skylights. Quite meditative at night during the concert with a program of Spanish-style classical guitar and shimmering covers of well-known tunes and popular styles. During the day, Mr. Uzzell and I managed to drag some guitars to the sanctuary during the dry heat of mid-day New Mexico and sample an ambiance of colored light, bright sunshine and fine sounds from our guitars. Then on the closing barbecue party, during a classic geselliges Beisammensein that typically concludes a lengthy educational retreat, Uzzell and I stood up and played a couple of songs for the gathering, some rock and blues to regale the participants, ZZ Top's Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers and the Allmann Brothers' One Way Out. Linking a youtube.com video to this post to highlight finer versions of these two classic songs seems too obvious: see below for the videos.

First, above, the ZZ Top song, apparently live from a German concert in 1980.

And now the Allmann Brothers song, One Way Out, also from Germany, a 1995 concert....WooHoo!!



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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Wichtige Links - und Museen in Deutschland


Hallo. Zuerst können Sie Ihre Aufgaben bei unsrer Blackboard-Website. Aber kandah.org lebt noch, und manchmal sollen Sie die Website besuchen, wie zum Beispiel diese Woche für Deutsch 3. Vergessen Sie nicht die früheren Botschaften auf der Website durchzuschauen.

Hier sind die Links für die Museen:

  1. Das Deutsche Schustermuseum - Bergkunst
  2. Museum Grafenwöhr - das Militärmuseum
  3. Salzburger Freilichtmuseum - Großgmain
  4. Neuburg an der Donau - Schlossmuseum
  5. Jüdisches Museum - Hohenems, Österreich
  6. Deutsches Erdölmuseum - Wietze
  7. Norddeutschen Spielzeugmuseum am Rathaus Soltau
  8. Deutsches Museum - Flugwerft Schleißheim
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

German Day, 2012


I took some nice pictures of German Day this year. If you want these pictures go get them soon at
kandah.org. In one week these pictures go away, so get them now! They still haven't updated the results of the competition, but I am almost certain we tied for 4th with Cary Academy. Providence High School in Charlotte, NC scored First, and Chapel Hill High was in Second. Our very own Ligon Middle School, with Frau Garrison at the helm, was in third. And then us! Woohooo! Good job, and may next year be even more successful.

For your convenience I include a link to the youtube channel of Deutsche Welle videos, videos about many different topics. Go browse around for something of interest. Trains your ear very well. - http://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelle?ob=0&feature=results_main
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Welcome back!

Using Blackboard at my current school took me away from updating kandah.org. But a new format of the page might inspire to revive the long-running website. We spoke this morning about the Mercedes Benz commercial for their new, ultra-environmentally friendly model in the B-class series. Internet problems prevented us from seeing it so here it is in all its glory from youtube.com:

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