Students will be able to identify Germany on a map.
Students will be able to trace the history of German unification. 
Students will be able to identify and discuss key events in Germany's history. 
Students will be able to create a timeline of the most important events in Germany's history.

Germany has been something of an obsession of mine since my father was stationed in Kaiserslautern with the US military when I was a child. Ever since, I have been devouring everything I could about Germany and German history. Something interesting I discovered was that the history of Germany since before WWI is rarely talked about and sometimes difficult to obtain information on. While studying at Hunter College, I took a class called "German History and Culture" which shed a lot of light on not only the history of Germany, but the complicated relationship Germans and history scholars have with the nation's history due to much of it's "grander" moments that could form a sense of national pride being co-opted and thus stained by Hitler and his white supremacy. In this class, I hope to give Germany the same treatment that other large European countries, like England or Italy, often get in regards to its history: a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. 

I also took a class called "Early Modern Christianity" in which we studied the Protestant Reformation and its leaders, many of whom were German, extensively. 
In addition to studying German culture and history, I have also studied German language formally at Brooklyn College for 1 year and informally for 6 years. I have traveled throughout Germany, from the north to the south. I extensively researched Germany and Turkey's relationships during a History of Turkey class in college as well, which also included research in regards to German attitudes towards immigrants. My Master's in Adolescent Education in Social Studies thesis focused on comparing the education systems of the US and Germany, with some emphasis as to how each country treats its national history. 

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I will post a short reading or video with an accompanying discussion question that students are expected to respond to thoughtfully every few weeks. They can respond in writing or through a recorded video. The topics of these could include cultural topics, short primary source documents, or deeper looks into the lives of people in Central Europe.

There will be a final project in which students will make a timeline of German history. They will be asked to record 10-15 of the most important events in Germany's history and to justify, either in writing or verbally, why they chose those events as the most important. Students can complete this on paper, via PowerPoint or Google Slides, or in some other digital format; it is completely up to the student. They will present this to the class on the last day.

If learners choose to purchase the suggested books, there are pages listed that accompany each class that they may read. 
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Schulze, H. (1996). Germany: A New History. (D. L. Schneider, Trans.) Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.
Winder, S. (2010). Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and their History. New York: Picador.