Please Note: This consensus map is a work in progress. We will continue to engage in conversations, reflection and revisions as we explore how to more clearly align and articulate our German consensus map.
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit / Content / Students can…(I1, I2, P) / Teaching Strategies / Resources / Assessment Strategies (I1, I2, P)
1. Love and Friendship, Family and Home Live / · Relationship vocabulary
· Life events (marriage, divorce, moving, etc…)
· Standards of society
· Government / church
· Reciprocal verbs
· The past conditional
· The verbs to miss and to please
· The subjunctive review and in more depth
· Stress pronouns / · Say what happened in a relationship
· Ask for and give advice about dating
· Share good and bad news
· Renew old acquaintances
2. Health, Society and politics / · Political campaign
· Government
· Government services (police/firefighters/ administration)
· Trends in society
· Health of society
· The past subjunctive / · Express a point of view
· Speculate about what happened
· Ask for assistance
· Get information and explain / · Debates: political topics
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit / Content / Students can…(I1, I2, P) / Teaching Strategies / Resources / Assessment Strategies (I1, I2, P)
3. Nature, sports, and leisure / · Nature
· How to enjoy nature without damaging nature
· Animals continued
· Exploration
· Extreme sports
· Subjunctive with expressions of fear
· The imperative review
· To take/to bring people and things
· Verbs with idioms / · Identify animals found in nature
· Describe extreme sports
· Express astonishment and fear
· Forbid and give warning
· Give general directions
· Complain and offer encouragement
4. Our planet (environment) / · Natural disasters
· Environmental issues and solutions
· The comparative and superlative review
· Passive voice
· Prepositions
· Subjunctive after conjunctions / · Identify and describe natural disasters
· Caution about disastrous events
· Tell why something happened
· Make predictions and express assumptions
· Express and support an opinion / · Presentation: breaking news, natural disaster
· Read environmental articles and create Brochure: ways to save our planet
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit / Content / Students can… (I, I, P) / Teaching Strategies / Resources / Assessment Strategies (I, I, P)5. Travel and Tourism / · Travel around the world
· Types of tourism
· Effect on planet
· Cultures
· Awareness
· Means of transportation
· Safety / · Ask for and give information and clarifications about travel by car
· Remind and reassure
· Ask or and give help
· Ask for directions
6. News, Business, and Technology / · Newspapers and magazines
· The news
· Businesses in today’s economy
· Social media and politics
· Subjunctive review w/ doubt and uncertainty
· The verb to believe
· The verb to appear / · Express certainty
· Express possibility
· Express doubt
· Express disbelief
· Break news
· Ask about information / Internet news-sites / · Simulate a breaking news story (possibly even video tape)
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit / Content / Students can…(I1, I2, P) / Teaching Strategies / Resources / Assessment Strategies (I1, I2, P)
7. Fine arts and Education / · Types of fine arts
· Music and other performing arts
· What is important in education (home vs. school) – role of education in different countries
· Fine arts important in school education?
· The verb to know / · Ask for and give opinions
· Introduce and change a topic of conversation
· Make suggestions and recommendations
· Give an impression / · Museum-tour – present a work of fine art (or an artist).
· Critique a piece of art
I1=Interpersonal I-2=Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL German Level 4+/82011