German 10

Core Competencies

Communicating
 
Collaborating
Critical and Reflective Thinking
 
Creative Thinking
Personal Awareness and Responsibility
 
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
 
Social Awareness and Responsibility

Students are expected to know the following:

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Big Ideas

Big Ideas

Listening and viewing with intent supports our acquisition and understanding of a new language.
Stories
Stories are a narrative form of text that can be oral, written, or visual. Stories are derived from truth or fiction and may be used to seek and impart knowledge, entertain, share history, and strengthen a sense of identity.
give us unique ways to understand and reflect on meaning.
Expressing ourselves and engaging in conversation in a new language require courage, risk taking, and perseverance.
Cultural expression
represents the experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn (e.g., painting, sculpture, theatre, dance, poetry and prose, filmmaking, musical composition, architecture)
can take many different forms.
Acquiring a new language provides a unique opportunity to access and interact with diverse communities.

Content

Learning Standards

Content

German declination
grammatical forms/endings for gender, case, and number (e.g., das kleine Haus, die kleinen Häuser)
gender, case, and number
common vocabulary, sentence structures, and expressions, including:
past, present, and future time frames
past, present, and future tenses of regular and irregular verbs in context
elements of common texts
e.g., format (letter versus email message), language, context, audience, register (informal versus formal), purpose
common elements of stories
place, characters, setting, plot, problem and resolution
idiomatic expressions
e.g., Ich habe die Nase voll!;Das ist mir Wurst; Du hast einen Vogel; Das ist nicht mein Bier!
throughout German communities
contributions of German Canadians
First Peoples perspectives connecting language and culture, including oral histories
e.g., conversations with an Elder about celebrations, traditions, and protocols
, identity
Identity is influenced by, for example, traditions, protocols, celebrations, and festivals.
, and place
A sense of place can be influenced by, for example, territory, food, clothing, and creative works.
German works of art
e.g., creative works in dance, drama, music, visual arts
ethics of cultural appropriation
use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, song, or drama, shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
and plagiarism

Curricular Competency

Learning Standards

Curricular Competency

Thinking and communicating

Use various strategies
For example:
  • use circumlocution, paraphrasing, reformulation, reiteration, repetition, word substitution
  • interpret body language, expression, and tone
  • use contextual cues
  • interpret familiar words
to increase understanding and produce oral and written language
Comprehend key information and supporting details in speech and a variety of other texts
“Text” is a generic term referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communications. Oral, written, and visual elements can also be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements).
Comprehend meaning and viewpoints in stories
Narrate
  • Use expressions of time and transitional words to show logical progression.
  • Use past, present, and future time frames.
stories, both orally and in writing
Respond to questions and instructions
Seek clarification and verify
e.g., request or provide repetition, word substitution, reformulation, or reiteration
meaning
Exchange ideas
with peers, teachers, and members of the wider community; can include virtual/online conversations
and information with growing fluency, both orally and in writing
Share information using the presentation format
e.g., digital, visual, verbal; aids such as charts, graphics, illustrations, music, photographs, videos, props, digital media
best suited to their own and others’ diverse abilities

Personal and social awareness

Recognize the importance of story in personal, family, and community identity
Investigate regional, cultural, and linguistic variations
e.g., idiomatic expressions of German communities
in German communities and their role in shaping cultural identity
Engage in experiences
e.g., blogs, school visits (including virtual/online visits), concerts, exchanges, festivals, films, letters, plays, social media, stores and restaurants with service in German
with German communities and people
Analyze personal, shared, and others’ experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through a cultural lens
e.g., values, practices, traditions, perceptions
Recognize First Peoples perspectives and knowledge; other  ways of knowing
e.g., First Nations, Métis, and Inuit; and/or gender-related, subject/discipline-specific, cultural, embodied, intuitive
, and local cultural knowledge