Advanced German: Expanding Perspectives (Language Proficiency)

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Advanced German Expanding Perspectives(Language
Proficiency)

• Speaking and Writing
• Develops students ability to carry out sustained
  discourse in both informal and more formal
  situations (e.g. oral presentations) on a wide
  range of concrete topics and current events.
  Students should be stretched to express and
  defend points of view, persuade an audience, and
  discuss more abstract topics.
• Speaking activities include focused practice with
  more complex structures and syntactical forms
  (e.g. subordinate and relative clauses, passive
  and subjunctive) and discourse markers (e.g.
  einerseits-andererseits), short oral reports,
  longer oral presentations, debates, extended
  guided discussion.
• Writing activities include Reading Journals /
  email discussion (informal writing), process
  essays resulting in 2-3 page formal essays,
  practicing diverse forms (e.g. autobiographical
  narrative, newspaper article, film review,
  parody, narrative).
• Reading and Listening
• Literary and non-literary texts from a wide array
  of media and genre (increased attention to genre
  and style) increased linguistic and
  propositional complexity. Focus on form indirect
  discourse, extended adjective modifiers, subj.
  use of modals, etc.
• Extensive Reading full-length play or novel in
  each semester with gripping story-line and less
  complex linguistic / propositional demands.