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Course Title: German III Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 106230 Term(s) Full Year
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): Completion of German II with 70% or higher Open to 9, 10, 11, 12
Grades:
Description: Students in this course continue to improve their speaking, writing, listening and reading skills. Thematic
units of study include camping, personal hygiene, telling stories, animals, tableware, foods, festivals, electronics, careers,
and cars. Grammar concepts include: comparison of adjectives, reflexive verbs, narrative past tense, past tense of modal
verbs, genitive case, dative and accusative prepositions, past perfect tense, adjective endings, and conjunctions.
Course Title: Honors German III Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 106235 Term(s) Full Year
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): Completion of German II with 90% or higher Open to 9, 10, 11, 12
Grades:
Description: Students in this course continue to improve their speaking, writing, listening and reading skills. Thematic
units of study include camping, personal hygiene, telling stories, animals, tableware, foods, festivals, electronics, careers,
cars, family members, bikes, games, dashboards, and hiking. Grammar concepts include: comparison of adjectives,
reflexive verbs, narrative past tense, past tense of modal verbs, genitive case, dative and accusative prepositions, past
perfect tense, adjective endings, conjunctions, “when”, imperatives, comparatives, superlatives, and da compounds.
Students will read a German children’s novel and complete literature activities and a reading project.
Course Title: Honors German IV Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 106245 Term(s) Full Year
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): Completion of German III 90% or higher or completion of Open to 10, 11, 12
Honors German III with an 80% or higher Grades:
Description: In order to be successful in this class, students must have mastered the following skills: use of present,
past and future tenses; stem changing and separable prefix verbs; use of haben, sein, and werden; modal verbs; personal
and possessive pronouns; word order of questions and statements; noun gender and plurals; definite and indefinite
articles; nominative, accusative and dative cases; prepositions; conjunctions; and adjective endings. Course content
includes a study of the German history and culture from 1919 until the present. Time periods include: the Weimar
Republic; Hitler’s takeover of power; the Third Reich; World War Two and the Resistance; Postwar Germany; the German
Democratic Republic; the Federal Republic of Germany; the Reunification; and Germany in the European Union of today.
Authentic texts and resources used for this class include: short literature; film; artwork; songs; musical pieces; news
articles and clips; and documentaries. Additionally, we will review current events from the German speaking world on an
ongoing basis.
Course Title: Advanced Placement German V Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 106255 Term(s) Full Year
Offered:
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Honors German IV with an 80% or higher Open to 11, 12
Grades:
Requirement(s): Students are required to complete the designated Advanced
Placement exam at their own expense (2017- 2018 cost $94).
Description: This is a high-level, intense language course designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement
exam and study at the college level. The course emphasizes vocabulary expansion, extemporaneous speaking, and
lengthier writings, listening at native-speaking speed and reading lengthy authentic texts. AP German V is conducted in
German and students pledge to use only German in class. Themes addressed in this course include family and
community, public and private life, the environment, and beauty and esthetics. A comprehensive review of German
grammar promotes mastery of all tenses, cases, and structures of the language.
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