Week 10

This week I did some more reading tutoring and I worked again with my group of 7th graders.  They had a test coming up, and they weren't sure exactly what would be on the test, but they said they had been learning about London sites, so we read a text about the two Queen Elizabeths, and I made sure to point out every London site that was mentioned in the text!

On Wednesday I went to two of Herr Hettig's 11th grade English classes and talked about about different types of graphs.  I had to do a bit of research for this one, but it turned out well.  Herr Hettig then had the students to brainstorm topics that they could survey their fellow students about and make their own graph.

I also went to Herr Hettig's 9th grade history class, and Jesse met me there!  We team-taught about the pioneers.  It was so nice having someone fill in when I had a gap in thought and nothing to say in that moment, especially since history is not my strong point.

On Thursday I went and observed Frau Zarnodt, who is doing her Referendariat at the school, give a grammar lesson to a 7th grade class.  She was also being observed by a couple people from her university and her mentor at the Gymnasium.  The lesson was about the second conditional, and she presented the form in conjunction with information about the Lock Ness Monster, so students could say things like, "If I saw Nessie, I would take a picture."  It was a fun lesson, and it was interesting sitting in on the discussion afterwards with the observers.

Then on Friday, after sitting in on another 7th grade German grammar lesson, I went and observed Frau Krumrück teach her introduction lesson on Scotland.  She used a couple great activities that I'm going to steal in the future.  One of them is the memory game she posted up on the board with magnets.  Each card/picture also had a number written underneath, so students had to practice numbers as they took turns playing.  This is such a great idea that could be used for so many different topics.  The other activity is the trip to Scotland she had the students take.  She had all the students go to another room and there, laid out on the tables, were postcards, pictures, newspaper articles, and souvenirs from her trip (or trips) to Scotland.  It was a lot of fun.

- Amy