Intermediate German: Contemporary Life (Critical / Creative Engagement)

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Intermediate German Contemporary Life(Critical
/ Creative Engagement)

• Playing with language
• Role plays enacting scenes explicit or implicit
  in text.
• Performances (poetry, readers theater, scenes
  from play).
• Writing Dear Abby letters, diaries, narrations
  or descriptions from perspective of different
  character or context.
• Creating living statues (Standbilder) depicting
  relationships in text.
• Confronting difference
• Journal writing / email discussion on personal
  reactions to texts.
• Comparing summaries of texts and analyzing
  differences in emphasis, etc.
• Ethnographic inquiry (interviews, email
  exchanges, deducing social / cultural values
  implicit, but not stated directly in texts e.g.
  with Jugendliteratur) identify and analyze
  situational culture clashes.
• Making connections
• Group projects involving independent learning
  (e.g. Internet projects).
• Reflecting on relationships between language
  forms and communicative intent.
• Translation projects (e.g. of poems or short
  stories).
• Guest speakers from department or other
  disciplines.