Homework for Sept. 27

Please read "All quiet on the Western Front" and make sure you have all past assignments on your blog (State presentations, Party presentations, Work report; it is better to post late than not to post at all. There is a cumulative blog grade that also depends on completeness)

(Photo source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AL-QUIET-WESTERN-FRONT-1929-1ST-ED-STATED-1ST-PRINTING-E-REMARQUE-VG-/370581771399)

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Day 4 Parties

In reviewing the blogs, I found most students had not written and posted the report on the work on German parties. A entered a grade of "F" for this assignment (counts like a test in classes with paper used). All students had to post the group work of their party group. Several are not up. Fix that by this evening, please. Some people have empty blogs. You may want to talk to me asap. If I asked you to add sources to pictures and text importer from the www, and you did not do so, we are faced with plagiarism. Check the student handbook for consequences, please.
I am looking forward to the presentations today. But there is a small twist afterwards... a mini debate of sorts.

Homework for Day 4- Sept. 19

Groups will meet and prepare presentations on German political parties. Each student will also write a blog post of 400-500 words on the topic: "My work on XYZ-party" in which you describe your study of the topic, which resources you used, how the group interacted, and what you are thinking of the party you studied and presented about. Be sure to use resources to validate your own arguments. As always, cite your sources.

Day 3 Länder presentations

We need to talk about the cultural differences in Germany's 16 States briefly, after we will have linked those students whose blogs did not connect properly to the class blog. Then student presentation will continue. In the last part of class, the new groups need to meet briefly to discuss ad manage next week's presentations on German parties.
Please do not forget to obtain a copy of "All quiet on the Western front" and read it by the end of this month. In three weeks, we will discuss characters, movie and novel and try to distill from the topic certain features that are based on German culture and "virtues".

 

(picture source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CongressVienna.jpg)

These students entered url data that does not connect to their blogs. Please see me next time to fix the url address.

 

http://desouzajohn10blogspot.com/

http://ge110f12goedekerg.blogspot.com/

http://ge110f12kvammeak.blogspot.com/

http://ge110f12tomjl.blogspot.com/

http://ge110f12tomjl.blogspot.com/

http://ge11of12mikedn.blogspot.com/

http://ge110flhannahmo.blogspot.com/

http://ge110ftbrendanmp.blogspot.com/

Homework for week 3: Presentations on Parties

The following groups should be ready to present week after next (Sept 19) to introduce the parties to us in class. Put your presentations on your blogs. All group members paste the same presentation.

		Anderson, Jacob A
		Colbert, David M
		Bliss, Matthew J
	CDU	Falade, Ekundayo B
		Janzen, Jason J
		Kvamme, Cody A
		Helgeson, Kristian R
		Hall, Jessica M
		Yu, Xianzhi
		Al Abbad, Maythem M
		Albright, Sapphire L
		Ray, Andrew J
	FDP	Wegeleben, Jonathan J
		Biernat, Patrick R
		Hammond, Ry J
		Kinzer, Matthew A
		De-Souza, John A
		Al Abbad, Mustafa M
		Goedeke, Amanda R
		Mueller, Jacob J
	SPD	Hamre, Tess K
		Louiselle, Thomas J
		Wacholz, William L
		Pfaff, Kindra K
		Branch, Mackenzie J
		Beuning, John A
		Backes, Robert L
	Green Party	Al Daaj, Abdullah D
		Albers, Joseph R
		Kreiman, James D
		Mueller, Jacob J
		Hofstater, Brittany M
		Navarro, Marissa J
		Shen, JiaLun
		Jones, Kelly J
		Mackedanz, Jacob J
	Pirates	Mosolf, Matthew J
		Nelson, Nicole L
		Pucel, Brendan M
		Rardin, Kayla A
		Aldaij, Haitam A
		Anderley, Ryan D
		Anderson, Kari M
		Anderson, Dillon R
	General overview of all German parties, present and past	Lamers, Cara R
		Neslund, Michael
		Ogaja, Ashley R
		Olson, Hannah M

German 110 f12 Day 2

All students will bring their blog url and link to the class blog in class.

We will conduct a brief assessment of what you know about German cultures and facts.

After a brief introduction to the Federal structure of Germany, groups will present. Groups need to verify that correct groupings are reflected on the class blog (which is currently not the case due to absences last week).

Students will begin to present the 16 German States. We will finish this task next week. Homework for next week: Review the political parties in Germany. Always peruse the Resources section in the right margin of this blog. 

(picture source: Wikipedia: States of Germany, screen dump from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany)
  
New to class? Just registered? Not in a group? Talk to me, please. We have one State without student presentation: Baden-Württemberg. Create a google ID, create your own blog, post all work for this class on your blog. Buy the book and read it by the end of September (All quiet on the Western Front by E. M. Remarque)