Mr. Kandah - Kandah.org

Sunday, August 25, 2013

First week of school - Beste Wünsche!

Hallo! Hope everyone is set for the first week of school. My goal is to keep this page updated for you, so you can see what's current in German class, what's upcoming, etc. Keep in my mind you can scroll downwards to prior posts, so that everything becomes a running commentary on our class this year. For example, the syllabi I posted are in the previous post, and you can scroll down to see it. Now, also forgive me if I leave out a word in my rush and zeal to update this page; I am an excellent speller, but sometimes a misstyped word slips through. My apologies in advance.

Note also my typical curricular post: organized by German class. And I'll also post links to appropriate German-related videos for everyone's benefit. And during the week I'll add items to the current posting.

Deutsch 1
German Cognates with English
Greetings in German - handout
the du-Sie dilemna in Germany - article. Read it and reflect on it in your notebooks.
Common German names for boys
Common German names for girls
Printable German Map
Greetings
Wie geht's? Asking how one is doing.

Deutsch 2
Review all German 1 communicative topics
German 1 Review sheet of everything in German 1

Deutsch 3
Review all German 2 communicatve topics
Powerpoint Presentations for use with our review
Verben mit Präpositionen - Übung
irregular verbs in German - big list!

Deutsch 4
Gesundheit und Ernährung! Fragen zum Interviewen
Mit Ketschup in die Schule - Fragen
Mit Ketschup in die Schule, Seite 259 - lesen genau, Neue Vokabeln ablisten
Hausaufgabe: Seiten 260 - 265, Übung 10 - Lesen, lernen, neue Vokabeln ablisten, notieren.
Lektion 8A Quiz
Das Passiv in Deutsch - Anmerkungen

AP Deutsch
Video-Bericht - Anmerkungsblatt

Thursday, August 22, 2013

And another year begins . . . Welcome back, everyone!

Willkommen, meine Schüler und eure Familien! Deutschlernen macht echt Spaß, und ich freue mich auf ein neues Schuljahr mit euch!

You should bookmark this page at home, or even make it your browser homepage! Forget facebook, twitter, espn sports, whatever, kandah.org is where you need to be this year for all things German, particularly your German courses! Note to the right of this page some important links for your edification. And below, in a blog post, each week, I'll post notes, handouts, assignments, websites, etc, so you can keep up to date with our coursework this year.

First things first: the syllabi for this year:

I'll give you copies of these syllabi to put into your folders for reference, but they'll always be here. I'll also give my AP German students a massive vocabulary list, a Gateway Vocabulary List (thanks to an awesome website at my alma mater, the University of Michigan, for this resource!).

One thing I am going to use year is something called linguafolio - "a portfolio assessment instrument designed to support individuals in setting and achieving their goals for learning languages." You can read more about this approach to world language study at http://www.ncssfl.org/LinguaFolio/index.php?linguafolio_index
Each student is expected to create an account for themselves at the following website: http://www.elinguafolio.org/ There will be further instruction on how we will use this website to further our language acquisition goals.

This year all teacher-student email communication must take place using Wake County email servers. All students will be assigned a unique Wake County email address. You can access this email server at the following link: https://webmail.wcpss.net/inotesctr.nsf Learn how to use and access this email account in order to communicate via email with your Enloe teachers!

An all important computer checklist - can you do these tasks???
Maintaining your note books in German class.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Das Ende kommt bald - stimmt das?

It has been a while since I updated this blog, and now the semester, the school year, is coming to a close. It was a great year at Enloe, as usual - great students, great school, great German exchange this year, an altogether rewarding 9 months or so of challenges, succeses, frustrations. Mostly awesomeness! Some things we did undertake this year:

Deutsches Wochenende - November, 2012. First time undertaking this overnight German Immersion excursion at Camp Caraway. Nine Enloe students went, and we had great fun.

German Club - excellent officers made this year a smash. We elected new officers, who are Sarah W. - returning as President, Justin M. - Vice President, Melanie N. - Treasurer, Kate N. - Secretary, and Jill J. - historian, a new position, that aims to chronicle the activities of our German Club through our blog at http://enloedeutschverein.blogspot.com/ with pictures, minutes, summaries of each meeting, etc.

German Day - at UNC Greensboro, March 2013. While we didn't win 1st place overall like we wanted, we did place in several categories, and as always we brought the largest school contingent from North Carolina!

German-American Partnership Program - we welcomed a group of 15 students from our partner school in Schweztingen, Germany. By all accounts, great fun. Enloe families hosted our German friends with all-American hospitality, and we're gearing up for our three-week whirlwind tour starting on June 14, 2013. Germany, here we come!

Now a few important links that should help prepare students for the final exams this year.

German 1
Dative Case - short explanation with some exercises.
Wem kaufst du das Geschenk?
Dative Case exercise
Dative Case pronouns - exercise - Kapitel 10B
Was hast du vor? - Kapitel 9B - conversation
Chores - identify these

Saturday, April 13, 2013

den 15. April 2013

German 1
Was hast du nach der Schule vor? Gespräch
Variety of Verbal Expressions for your use

German 2
Auf die Post gehen!
Wo? either/or prepositions
Wohin? either/or prepositions

German 3
eine Stelle suchen! Lektion 6B
Tipps für Bewerbung - Wichtige Website
Eine Stelle suchen - Wichtige Vokabeln
stepstone.de - Stellenanzeigen in vielen Berufsfelde
Vokabel 6A - Quiz
eine Stelle suchen - Projekt!
das Interview - Hauptfragen

Sunday, March 10, 2013

die zweite Woche vom März, 2013

Grüße, meine Schüler! Letzte Woche sind wir zu german Day gegangen. Und ich denke, wir hatten viel Spaß dabei gehabt. Obwohl wir nicht die Nummer Eins waren, haben wir viele Preise erhalten. Ich gratuliere allen der Wettkämpfer. Ihr habt etwas Tolles auf UNC-G geleistet, und darauf sollen wir stolz sein. Nun, hier ein Gruppenfoto von euch. Gut gemacht!!

GAPP - Enloe und Hebel!!
Our Hebel group will be here next week! WOW!
Hebel Gymnasium - Schulwebsite
Vier Ecken!