Students in my classes are highly motivated and excited to start or continue their learning of the German language and culture.
I try to make as much material available to my students that is authentic, engaging and fun to enable them on this adventure we all call "Learning German!" Often, my students are learning German to be able to enhance a planned trip, or participate in our exchange: authentic language as input really helps in their acquisition!
With the books I plan on ordering with this project, my students will be confronted with native language in a compelling context, helping with vocabulary expansion, grammar usage and geographical knowledge built into the stories.
My Project
Students will be assigned reading by chapter, to summarize for their classmates. Sometimes, they will make vocabulary lists, identify grammar structures and do presentations about the cities and areas where the story is taking place.
These current mini-novels will enable me to help my students expand their geographical knowledge of Germany, as well as increase their vocabulary exposure, experience the grammatical structures we are learning in class in a real context of reading and hopefully excite them to want to keep on reading until the end of the story!
For the upper levels, we will experiment with role plays and writing different endings to the stories and/or writing the "next chapter."
More than a third of students from low‑income households
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