The World Wide Web celebrated its 30th Anniversary March 12, which makes me feel rather old, but also grateful.
On the day before Spring Break, I was pondering what to do with my students on the first day back from break, and I was drawing a blank. It's more difficult since it is the second day of our block schedule, and on the day before break, I had a lot of students gone, so it was mostly a catch-up day / make-up day. I don't really want to come back from break to that, so what do I do with my sleepy students who will claim that they've forgotten all their German?
I glanced at my blog reading list, and suddenly I had two good ideas:
For German 1, from World Language Classroom, a "Who is it?" minibook:
The post does not contain a template for German, but I've done minibooks before, so it was quite easy to make my own template.
I made one following the model from World Language classroom:
and modified it a bit for my students:
Rather than doing a selfie, I plan to number students' books when they finish writing so that they can read each other's books and fill in a guess on a chart:
For German 2, from The German Sector, a March Madness-style German video competition:
I am very, very grateful to Ashley for selecting, previewing, and sharing the 16 German music videos because I'm not very knowledgable about German pop music.
A quick Google search led me to this great March Madness bracket from Plexkits: https://plexkits.com/march-madness-bracket/
I deleted the parts of the bracket that I didn't need, and Rick very kindly added a winner box for me. I added hyperlinks to the bracket so that students can click and view the various videos.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/138BiHAN3nwxLbM9Ojbyx7eYRNGs_CQRRy52AmAYu5_Y/edit?usp=sharing
This is definitely something that I couldn't have come up with on my own, and I'm very grateful for all the people who shared resources with me. I hope it will energize my students next Monday morning!
