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