Deutsche Welle: Video-Thema Six Assignments per Grading Cycle

On the Deutsche Welle website, www.dw.de, there is a virtually inexhaustible collection of constantly-updated materials, including daily news in written and audio formats, the Jojo sucht das Glück series, and much, much more. Those planning to take the AP would be well-advised to spend time here regularly surfing around to sample various readings, audio files, and videos. However, for this project, we are going to concentrate on one feature of the site, the Video-Thema.

No matter where you are on the DW site, there is always a blue bar across the top with the headings Themen, Media Center, Programm, and Deutsch lernen (assuming, of course, that you have chosen to view the site in German). If you hover over “Deutsch lernen,” a menu with four columns pops up. In the second column, Deutsch XXL, there’s a link a few items down called Video-Thema. Clicking on that link takes you to the “headquarters” of the Video-Thema section. A new video is published here once a week. On the main page, you’ll always find the newest video prominently featured (on the left side of the screen), and under it, the last three weeks’ videos. On the right, you’ll find an even longer listing of recent videos, and under that, you’ll find a year-by-year archive of all the weekly videos going back to 2008.

They have things arranged and indexed in a number of ways, almost too many, but when you see a title that interests you, the best link to click, if and when you can locate it, is the link next to the word LEKTION. That will take you to a standardized presentation that has the video and underneath it five headings: Übersicht (overview), Übungen (exercises), Manuskript (transcript), Glossar (glossary), and Downloads & Links. For the older videos, you may not find this arrangement, but you should always be able to find the video, the exercises (in interactive and/or PDF format), and the transcript.

For each of the four grading periods this year, you will be responsible for watching six of these videos and completing an accompanying assignment, two before each progress report or report card comes out. You must complete one of each of the six types of assignments outlined on the back of this page, which correspond to the types of tasks on the AP. It doesn’t matter which order you do them in, as long as two get done before each deadline and six get done by the end of the grading period. A Daily Grade Pass may be used to drop two of the six assignments during a given grading period.

When I say “watch the video,” I mean watch it multiple times. Watch it first without captions, then with (if captions are available). Make use of the vocabulary list they give you. Really wrestle with it and try to gain as full an understanding of it as you can.

Deadlines for the year:

First grading period: two by Friday, September 9; two by Friday, September 30; two by Friday, October 14 Second grading period: two by Friday, November 4; two by Friday, December 2; two by Monday, December 12 Third grading period: two by Friday, January 20; two by Friday, February 10; two by Friday, March 10 Fourth grading period: two by Friday, April 7; two by Friday, April 28; two by Monday, May 15

Interpersonal Speaking: Make an appointment with Interpersonal Writing: Write an email that you could me (in person or via email) to discuss one of the videos. send to someone associated with the video (either a Email me a link to the video OR the title and date of person featured in the video or the producer/reporter, the video so that I can find it myself. (The date on even if that person is not named). In your email, first which each video was published can be found in the mention that you saw a video titled X on the DW archive.) I will watch the video before our appointment, website and reference the date it was published (the and then we’ll have a conversation in German about dates can be found in the archive). Then, react to the the video when you come for your appointment. Bring video with praise/agreement and/or criticism/ this sheet to the appointment for me to sign. disagreement. Ask at least two questions. Email or give me a print-out of the email you wrote. Bring me RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 this sheet to sign. RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50

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Interpretive Listening: Prove to me that you watched Interpretive Reading: Watch the video once or twice. the video by submitting to me your answers to the 5 Then print out the transcript of the video and read it exercises that DW provides for each video. You can do carefully. Highlight five sentences that seem most them interactively online, in which case you’ll need to important or interesting to you and be prepared to take a screen shot of each completed exercise and dump discuss them with me in English. Also, find and print the screen shots into a Word document, or you can print another German-language article on the same topic out the PDF of the exercises and answer them on paper. (from the DW site – they suggest all kinds of related Email or bring me the exercises, and bring me this articles – or from the Internet at large), and again sheet to sign. highlight five sentences as above. Make an appointment to discuss both articles with me. Bring RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 this sheet to the appointment for me to sign. RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50

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Presentational Speaking: Prepare a 2- to 3-minute Presentational Writing: Write a German-language presentation about the video (you don’t have to cover summary of the video. Try to be as comprehensive as everything in the video; feel free to focus on one possible but stay within 100-125 words. Turn in a aspect). Also, choose a 45- to 75-second section of the print-out of the transcript of the video along with your video (make note of the exact start time) to show as part summary so that I can check that you are not stealing of your presentation (but the time spent showing the directly from the transcript. Pretend that you are video does not count toward the 2 to 3 minutes you need helping create an index of all these videos and part of to speak). Arrange a date with me to make this the index will be a summary that expresses the gist of presentation in class well before the deadline. Have what the video is about. this sheet for me to sign at the end of your presentation. RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50 RB initials & date: ______Points: ____/50