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Exploring German Literature
Class experience
Depending on each student's background, interest, and facility with German, these works will include some of the following as well as similar texts: - selections from Grimm's Fairy Tales - Hauff, Die Geschichte von Kalif Storch - Hesse, Maerchen - Bochert, Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch - Mann, Tonio Kroeger - Duerrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame - Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan - Ende, Momo - Kaurin, Irgendwo ist immer Sueden Components of the class will include: - reading through...
This class is taught in German.
As the son of German parents who immigrated to the States, I grew up speaking German and later learned it formally in high school and at the university. Later on I was fortunate to live Germany for several years, for three years as a guest student at two state universities and then as an English instructor in different public schools for three years. I began tutoring German in the late Seventies and subsequently taught the language in public schools from 1985 to 2016, when I retired. Since my retirement I've organized online courses for college-age students and adults that are typically focused on exam preparation (e.g., the B1 exam) and Business German. More recently, at the beginning of 2021, I began teaching German courses for younger students on Outschool.
Homework Offered
The students will be asked to read five to ten pages' worth of text on their own before each session and often to prepare written answers to comprehension and/or thought questions.1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered
Although I'll supply short stories for those taking this course, students will also be asked to buy paperbacks on occasion. Purchasing a German paperback on Amazon or ebay.de usually runs to beween ten and twenty dollars per book.
When I retired in 2016 after more than thirty years in California classrooms, I figured that my days of teaching were pretty much behind me. As it turned out, though, that assumption was completely off the mark. I soon started teaching online...
1-on-1 Lessons
$35
weekly or $700 for 20 classes1x per week, 20 weeks
30 min
Completed by 1 learner
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-18