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Unit plans

Susanne Staples: German

**7. read about and recount actual or imagined events in the past.**      **8.3 recount a series of events to inform, persuade, or entertain**    || Students can read poetry and transform it creatively. They can use direct and indirect speech to retell the poem **.** || -poetic language (changes due to rhyme; “old” words) -past tense (simple and perfect) -direct and indirect speech ||||  **Cultural knowledge** -location of the Loreley (Rhein) -origin and development of the myth -about the poem author Heine |||||| **Text types / resources** -Heine´s poem //Loreley// -story -cartoon -drama -songs -recording device (+Audacity) || **Compet.** || **Ellis´** **principles** || **iCLT** **principles** || - individually on the class wiki ||
 * **Unit title:** Lorelei |||| **Year Level:** 7/ year 12 |||||| **Timing:** 10 lessons ||
 * **Big Idea:** students get to know a German legend, it´s backround and development into countless version as a important part of German literature and trherefore culture. ||
 * **Proficiency Descriptor:** Students can use language variably and effectively to express and justify their own ideas and opinions and support or challenge those of others. They are able to use and identify the linguistic and cultural forms that guide interpretation and enable them to respond critically to texts. ||
 * **Achievement Objectives:**
 * **Learning Intentions: students**
 * **Communication - Success Criteria:** The students know they are successsful if they can read and understand a German poem (Heine´s Loreley) and German stories (Lorelei-versions). They are able to transform the poem into a different forms (narrative, cartoon, drama). ||
 * **Language knowledge**
 * **Learning Experiences** || **Key**
 * - teachers reads poem by Heine; students read the poem aloud, each student 1 line; teacher reads poem again || 2,3,5 || 6,7,3,10 || 1,3 ||
 * - students retell the poem (as a narrative) to a partner and write it down afterwards; read it aloud || 1,2,3,4,5 || 2,7,8,10 || 2,3,5,6 ||
 * - all create a class wiki about Lorelei; every student will have to put his work on the wiki independently (a folder for dramas, poem, cartoons, stories, audiofiles, pictures, continuing versions, “consequences”, adaptions) || 1,2,3,4,5 || 10 ||  ||
 * - students turn the poem into a cartoon – preferably with a program, during a lesson in the computer lab – every version will be shown and read aloud in pairs || 1,2,3,4,5 || 7,8,10 || 3 ||
 * - students create a drama to retell the legend – they read it aloud in pairs || 1,2,3,4,5 || 7,8,10 || 3,5 ||
 * - all play “consequences”: 1 st person = Lorelei, 2 nd person=seaman, 3 rd they meet, 4 th he says, 5 th she says, 6 th scary element, 7 th the censequence – to become creative with the material || 1,2,3,4,5 || 7,8,9,10 || 3,5 ||
 * - students do a online-research: adaptions of the Lorelei-story (i.e. In music); each student presents one to the class and explains the differences/variations compared to Heine´s poem || 1,2,3,5 || 6,7,10 || 3,5 ||
 * -students write different end to the story, they can choose the form (poem, story, cartoon, drama); their own work is the basis (if they choos poem, it is Heine´s version) – everyone reads version aloud || 1,2,3 || 7,10 || 3 ||
 * - record Lorelei-material: poem, best story (class votes), best drama, best continuing version (maybe for all 3 text types) - students think about supporting music and noises and how to produce them; roles (everyone should be playing a part in the speaking); 2 student technicians for the recording – results on the wiki, CD for each student || 1,2,3,4,5 || 7,10 || 2,3 ||
 * -groups of 3 create cover for the C D (online research for pictures of Lorelei)- class votes for best cover || 1,2,3,4,5 || 7,,8,10 || **3** ||
 * **Evaluation** ||
 * **Teacher reflection** ||||||||  **Student feedback**
 * **Assignment task** ||
 * 1.6. International Languages Writing, Internal, 3 credits ||
 * Transform a poem (Brentano- version of Lorelei) into a different text sort (story, drama, cartoon) ||