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Novel – Nordseepirat – Robert – Ch 4 – German – Level 1-2

Auf Kaperfahrt <<Junge!>>, lacht Jan, der alte, graue Quartermeister. <<Beim Klabautermann, du bist nicht ganz dicht! Oder hast du meine Geschichte nicht gehört? Wir sind die Likedeeler! Wir sind Freibeuter! Was denkste? Wir sind doch auf Kaperfahrt.>> Götz wird rot. <<Ach ja, . . . beim Klabautermann>>, sagt er. Alle lachen. Pitt der Jungmann, der […]

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March Update

I’m going to hold up the queue for four or five days for needed discussion on the past ten or so articles. I need feedback from the group on the content of the past week’s articles before moving to any new stuff so that I can learn from them. Also I have some requests for some “catch-up”

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Reading Novels

The thing on this article is whether we read to them in L1 or L2   1. Go through the chapter that will be read that day and find any scenes that might lend themselves to being acted out. 2. When class begins, the class reads from the book, keeping their fingers on the words

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RT 11

After a hiatus of a few weeks, we return to our molst important discussion of Reader’s Theatre, moving in the direction of a possible template (an initial draft is given below) that we can use in our classrooms when doing RT this spring. The reader may want to click on the RT (Reader’s Theatre) category

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Bizarro ACTFL Article

Below is the article by Sandy Cutshall that we networked over to Robert (through Michele and others) that is now in the current issue of The Language Educator, the monthly publication of ACTFL. David sent it to me. When I communicated with Sandy about this, I got the strong impression that she just considered it a kind of chore to write about

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AP Changes 4

  We could say a lot about the move in support of ACTFL’s Three Modes of Communication by the College Board AP Exams. We have actually already done so, in a far reaching discussion that has lasted since May, 2011 when Robert first brought it up. The intensity of the discussion over the ensuing months

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AP Changes 3

This and the next few posts are follow-ups/rewrites/recollecting of previously published posts on the topic of the new AP exam format. I just wanted to revisit and update them. The blog queue is really jammed right now, but I have decided not to put too much up here at a time. There is Robert’s Chapter 4 waiting, and

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