Please Note: This consensus map is a work in progress. We will continue to engage in conversations, reflection and revisions as we explore how to more clearly align and articulate our German consensus map.

Essential Question (s):

Theme/Unit / Content / Students can…
(I1, I2, P) / Teaching Strategies / Resources / Assessment Strategies (I1, I2, P)
1.Vacation and travel /
  • Countries
  • Continents
  • Making travel preparations
  • Hotel
  • Train station
  • Airport
  • Customs
  • If statements (conditional) review
  • Review past tense
  • Review future
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  • Identify countries on a map
  • Ask about a vacation
  • Say what they would do in different locations if they could
  • Express necessity
  • Ask about what has been done
  • Get travel information
  • Ask for information at a train station or airport
  • Buy tickets and make a transaction
  • Pay hotel bill
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  • Create a travel brochure and travel presentation to the class – convince them your trip is the best
  • Blank maps – fill in designated countries and write sentences saying what they would do if they could go there.

2.The great outdoors /
  • Camping
  • Nature
  • Animals
  • Activities
  • Past tense review
  • The future review
/
  • Identify vocabulary
  • Say what happened
  • Describe circumstances
  • Say what they were doing when something else happened
  • Tell what they will do
  • Wonder what will happen
/
  • Verb-board races
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  • Write a story about a weekend camping trip

Essential Question (s):

Theme/Unit / Content / Students can…
(I1, I2, P) / Teaching Strategies / Resources / Assessment Strategies (I1, I2, P)
3.Entertainment /
  • Books
  • Movies
  • TV shows
  • Music
  • Relative pronouns
  • Past participles
  • Pronouns
  • Review comparatives/ superlatives
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  • Identify genres and give examples of each
  • Describe a book or movie
  • Ask for and give information about media/ entertainment
  • Ask about preferences
  • Recommend or advise against something
  • Give opinions and why
/
  • Game show simulation speed games for genres (students give examples of genres on slips of paper – two come up at a time and race to identify the genre first)
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  • Written Book/movie review

Essential Question (s):

Theme/Unit / Content / Students can…
(I1, I2, P) / Teaching Strategies / Resources / Assessment Strategies (I1, I2, P)
4.The body and health /
  • Parts of the body
  • Injuries
  • Illnesses
  • The doctor
  • The pharmacy
  • The subjunctive
  • The gym
  • Exercise and eating well
  • The conditional and “if” statements
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  • Identify body parts
  • Ask and tell how you feel
  • Describe symptoms
  • Give advice
  • Complain about health
  • Sympathize with someone and express concern
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  • Body drawings and label
  • Round robin w/ illnesses assigned – express concern and give advice
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  • Giant body drawings
  • Dialogue at doctor, pharmacy, or emergency room

5. Work /
  • Professions and services
  • Telephone and formal letter
  • Future review
  • The future perfect
  • Job applications in Germany versus US
/
  • Identify professions and describe what they do and where they work
  • Ask about future plans w/ work
  • Ask about job descriptions
  • Make polite requests
  • Make a phone call
  • Write a formal letter
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  • Simulate a professional phone conversation to get an interview
  • Create a job announcement
  • Reply to a job announcement in the form of a formal letter

Essential Question (s):

Theme/Unit / Content / Students can…
(I1, I2, P) / Teaching Strategies / Resources / Assessment Strategies (I1, I2, P)
6. History /
  • Historical accounts from German speaking countries
  • War vocabulary
  • DDR / BRD
  • Various past tenses
  • Sequence of tenses
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  • Relate a sequence of events in the past
  • Tell what happened to someone else

7. Once upon a time /
  • Legends
  • Fairytales
  • fables
/
  • identify
  • set the scene for a story
  • continue and end a story
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  • students read a fairy tale in the target language, rewrite it in their own words, create an image-only power point, and then tell the story to the class with no notes

I1=Interpersonal I2=Interpretive P=Presentational

Salt Lake City School District/WL German Level 3/8/2011