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AP German Literature
  

German Literature Advanced Placement (AP)

Recommended Prerequisites: German I, II, III, and AP German Language

Grades Offered: 11-12

Credit: ½ to 1

SDE Course Code: 3099

MNPS Course Code: FLA1955

 

Course Description

German AP Literature is an advanced course designed to be the final step of preparation for advanced German study at the university level.  This course focuses on preparing the literary selections on the AP German Literature list, which can be found at www.apcentral.collegeboard.com.  Students read, analyze, discuss, compare, and write extensively on these selections.  This course also maintains fluency and refines the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.  The literature prompts the refinement of vocabulary and grammar structures.  Students pursuing this course must have acquired advanced communications skills in the German language in order to read a selection of German literary works.  This course is not a survey of German literature, but rather a course in which students learn to read selected German literary works from a critical perspective.  This course is based on the National Foreign Language Standards.

 

Course of Study

The student is expected to use and understand simple to complex structures.  German AP Literature reviews and refines structures previously studied in depth.  It provides an opportunity to use the appropriate structures in real communicative situations, to analyze German literature, and to compare literary works.

 

Objectives: The student will….

·        Read and understand prose and verse of moderate difficulty and mature content.

·        Provide critical opinions about the German works orally and in writing.

·        Read, analyze, and understand German literary texts via discussion and written essays.

The student is capable of….

  • The highest proficiency skills of prior levels.
  • Presenting ideas and concepts through comparisons and debating.
  • Communicating researched material through projects, journaling, and academic essays.
  • Reading German literature and analyzing German culture as presented through literary works

 

Foreign Language Learning Strategies

  • Comparing cultures
  • Analyzing all types of genres
  • Studying in depth the German culture
  • Connecting the foreign language to other disciplines such as English, social studies, and art
  • Listening
  • Communicating through speaking and pronunciation
  • Expressing ideas in discussions
  • Reading of all types of available realia
  • Writing both to perfect structures and to express ideas
  • Writing to evaluate material studied
  • Formal and informal written composition in the target language
  • Formal and informal oral composition in the target language
  • Evaluating
  • Classifying
  • Debating
  • Interviewing
  • Analyzing
  • Synthesizing
  • Memorizing
  • Sequencing structures, events, and stories
  • Creating in the language conversations and explications
  • Using context clues
  • Taking notes
  • Interacting in conversation both formulated and not formulated
  • Recognizing presented outstanding works and people of the German culture

 

Thematic Vocabulary

  • Vocabulary begins with the student himself and continues in an ever-expanding concentric circle to include depth in the vocabulary needed.
  • Vocabulary is consistent with literary terms needed for literary analysis.
  • Vocabulary is amplified through reading, listening, and conversations of advanced concepts.
  • Vocabulary is relevant to the study of German literature and drama.
  • Vocabulary is adequate to encompass history, current events, and analyzing literature.
  • Cognates.

 

Standards

Standards are based on the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) and American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) standards.

AATG: http://www.aatg.org

ACTFL: http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/ACTFLProficiencyGuidelines/TheACTFLGuidelines.htm

Tennessee standards: www.state.tn.us/education/ci/ciforeignlang/ciflmodern1.htm

College Board: http://www.apcentral.collegeboard.com

 

Recommended Textbooks/Resources

Students need to use the texts of the various literary works.  The teacher needs to align and test as done on the AP German Literature examination.