Initial Reading Activities

for Draußen vor der Tür:

Grade 8


     Grade 8 students are cognitively ready to read and discuss short passages from a longer literary work.  Such excerpts should be selected to be read and comprehended on their own terms and, at the same time, provide a basis for reading the entire work at a later stage in the curriculum.  Thus, a key issue for both exercises will be what to read from this text. If students at a Grade 8 have been learning German for a year or longer and done reading of short authentic texts, they will be able to get information and perhaps even connect German concepts to their own from a short scene from Draußen vor der Tür.


BRAINSTORMING

on "right excerpts" from Draußen vor der Tür

Look over the play, and decide which excerpts from the play might be more appropriate for Grade 8 students, and explain why.  Proceed to the Hints and the following exercise if you don't want to Brainstorm


Assuming that the reading selected from Draußen vor der Tür was from Scene 5, the initial conversation with Frau Kramer, which one of this pair of activities more effectively meets the Standards appropriate for this learning level and why?

After you read both exercises (Ex. A and Ex. B), justify your choice in the Brainstorming Forum, or clock directly on the Hints to see what factors may play into your judgments.


BRAINSTORMING

     Which one of this pair of activities more effectively meets the Standards appropriate for this learning Level and why?

 EXERCISE A
 EXERCISE B