We don't have any big plans for the break, but I'm going to visit my parents in Lafayette on the weekend. Then, on Monday and Tuesday we're doing all of the stuff that is hard to schedule during the school day - doctor appointment, orthodontist appointment, and delivery of a new washing machine. I'm most excited about the last one - with 2 teenage boys in 3 fall sports having a reliable washing machine is a must! This is my first year working full time since having children, and my husband works full time, and I just don't know how people get all of this stuff done with all the adults working full time.
Ok, back to German:
German 1 took their unit test on Schule, numbers, haben and the accusative case on Friday. I'm about a third of the way through grading them, and they're doing pretty well. In my first class of 30 students, 10 scored 90% or better.
My notes on haben and the accusative case continue to evolve. Two years ago we made a foldable:
I liked the foldable, but it was a bit cramped, so last year I tried a different format:
Also pretty good, but I felt like maybe a foldable was more time and setup effort than I wanted to expend for this topic, so this year I went back to more straightforward guided notes:
I think I like this best - it focuses on the essential elements without overwhelming students with too much information this early in the process.
I do still love German Sentence Dissection and plan to use it in the spring when we learn the dative case and indirect objects. I find that as we go on, students are frequently telling me that they don't know how to figure out the cases. Usually it's because they haven't taken the time to read the sentence and analyze what it means, so my plan is to always insist on the Sentence Dissection Steps when we're working on cases from second semester of German 1 onward.
Help yourself to whatever you like best:
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