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Fall Meeting CNY AATG: September 21, 2019

Mona Eikel-Pohen presents on LGBTQ+ novels for the German college classroom.

Members were offered presentations of interest from a variety of themes relevant to multiple levels of German instruction.

• Patrick Schultz, SUNY Oswego presented Kinderbücher.
• Rosmarie Morewedge, SUNY Binghamton, presented Nora Krug's graphic journaled novel Heimat.
• Kate Stewart, Fayetteville-Manlius High School presented the graphic novel, drüben! by Simon Schwartz
• Harald Zils, SUNY Binghamton, presented the podcast Mensch Mutta, and the novel series Gerhand Henschel: Die Martin-Schlosser-Romane
• Mona Eikel-Pohen, Syracuse University, presented LGBTQ+ novels, featuring Bennet Bialojahn's Trans*Later and Mirjam Münteferig's Anders geht immer
• Ana Djukic-Cocks, SUNY Oswego, presented a short film, "Date" 

Our next meeting is April 18th, at Fayetteville-Manlius High School



Handouts and slide shows are linked below.

Von Mona Eikel-Pohen:

Handout: Marium Münterfering Anders geht um Textauszug
LBGTQ+ für AATG
Arbeitsblatt Trans*Later

Von Ana Djukic-Cocks:
Handout for Date Kurzfilm

Von Kate Stewart:

drüben! im Unterricht Präsentation 

drüben! Handout

Patrick Schulz presents on children's' books in the German class.

Rosmarie Morewedge presents on Nora Krug's Heimat.

Harald Zils presents on the podcast Mensch Mutta, and a novel series Martin-Schlosser-Romane.

Gute Nachrichen!

The 2018-2019 School year brought many successes in the CNY German studies world.

Please take a look at what we can be proud of this year!

On the secondary school level:

Generous financial Awards from the Central New York German-American Society:

CNY German American Society Senior Scholarship Winners:
Adam Wood (Onondaga Central), Rachel Rose, Calla Lewis & Nicholas Hartman (all Mexico)
and Angela Wu (Fayetteville-Manlius)

Travel Scholarships:

Lucas Gascon - FM: AATG National Exam Scholarship winner
He will spend 4 weeks in Germany this summer.

Ian Bryant - FM:  Congress-Bundestag scholarship winner.  
He will study for a year in Germany.

Daniel Popp - FM:  Goethe Institute's Award of Excellence Travel Scholarship winner.  He will spend 3 weeks this summer in Germany.

The National German Exam Awards:

48 Students in the CNY Chapter of AATG took the High School National German exam.

Below are the medal winners from Fayetteville-Manlius District:

Level 2 Exam:

Bronze Medal:

Catherine Jia, Miriam Sanzone, Terese Schmidt, Benjamin Sharples

Silver Medal:

James Hoehner, Joshua Lim, Margaret Lorraine, Nicole Smith, Ella Theoharis

Gold Medal:

Lucas Gascon, Ainsley Puc

Level 3 Exam:

Bronze Medal:

Luke Hasenwinkel, Katya Noble, Yihan Wang

Silver Medal:

Daniel Haungs

Level 4 Exam:

Bronze Medal:

Justin Jaynes, Allison Ritter, Angela Wu

Silver Medal:

Lydia Henn, Paige Pepling, Daniel Popp, Kate Scuderi

Gold Medal:

George Langenberg, Samuel Theoharis, Christopher Szidat

In the middle Schools:

Eagle Hill Middle School Fayetteville-Manlius:

The following eighth grade German students at Eagle Hill Middle School in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District are recognized for their achievement on the National German Exam.

Honorable Mention:  Jamie Utter, Gavin Botwinick, Owen Capria, Charlie Lorraine

Bronze: Kaleigh Hamilton, Michael Surowiec, Kirk Banes

Silver: Mason Weires

Gold: Clara Leak, Sophie Manna, Ruthie Taber, Alex Wu

Wellwood Middle School Fayetteville-Manlius:

The following eighth grade German students at Wellwood Middle School 

in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District are recognized for their achievement on the National German Exam.

Gold:  Hannah Kaercher, Aiden Lee, Erik Koshnicharski, Xavier Greene

Silver: Maddy Malgieri

Bronze:  Kaylene Noble

Baldwinsville Central's German department has as of this spring a GAPP Program!

Meanwhile at Syracuse University there were:

• two graduating majors (both now pursuing careers as German teachers)
• one student with a Modern Foreign Language major with German as one of their languages
• two graduating minors
• one student who will be in Germany as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant
• one student who won the Max Kade Prize for Undergrad Research for Best Research Project & Presentation
• five students who received the Max Kade Travel Award
• ten new students to join Delta Phi Alpha
• two students who conducted research for http://thefutureofmycity.org as part of the Deutschlandjahr 2019 (winners will be announced later in June)

SU's Gerlinde Ulm Sanford Award Winners: 

Kevin Quinn, the best graduating student in German

Magda Zackiewicz, the student most committed to the German Program

At SUNY Oswego:

SUNY Oswego students Momoko Ogiso (left) and Michelle DiBlasio (right)
German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), or DAAD,
grants to study in Germany this summer.
(Center) Patrick Schultz of the modern languages and literatures faculty

SUNY Oswego student Michael Kaefer will continue a second year as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany, continuing to teach in Troisdorf.


Chris Byrne, also on Fulbright in Germany, will stay another year in Germany, but not to teach English. He applied for a position at Beck’s brewery in Bremen and has very good chances to be accepted.

 Central New York AATG 2019 Frühlingstreffen

27 April Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Rosemary and Patrick trying out Google Cardboard with VR films of the Berlin Wall

Guest speaker Courtney Pasco, graduate student of French at SUNY Oswego, presented on uses of Google Earth in the German Classroom with a special focus on the Berlin Wall in preparation of the 30th anniversary this year.  Participants experimented on scavenger hunts using coordinates, Google's timelapse imagery of geographical sites, Google Voyager and other practical uses of these apps for the German classroom.

Ipads with Google cardboard were also sampled using Youtube VR videos that gives the experience of being right at the East Side Gallery. 

Following the presentations, new officers were elected and a vote put to the attending membership on the revisions to the Chapter Constitution.  The newly revised Constitution is now located on the sidebar of this website.

New officers for the CNY AATG:

President: Mona Eikel-Pohen

Vice President: Patrick Schultz

Secretary: Kevin Quinn

Gratulation und vielen Dank für eure Bereitschaft, der Gruppe zu unterstützen!

Our next meeting will be Saturday, September 21, 2019 @ 10:00 am

at the Community Library for Dewitt and Jamesville.

Kristin tries out the East Side Gallery VR tour.

Mona and Kevin working on a Google Earth Voyage of Berlin sites.

Danke für den herrlichen Blumenstrauß!

Kate's Presentation with VR 360 Youtube Videos Linked

Courtney's Google Earth Presentations

Frühlingstreffen 2019: 27. April

April 27, 2019 @ 9:30 am

CNY AATG Spring Workshop & Meeting

at

Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Room 2231, House II  Computer Lab

Agenda:

9:30-10:00 Kaffee, Kuchen, Quatschen

10:00-11:30 Google Earth in the German Classroom

11:30-12:30 Time to experiment with Google Glasses and Google Earth

*Please bring your own ear buds to enable the use of sound on the Google Cardboard with your smart phones.

12:30-1:30 Business meeting and voting for Officers and Chapter Constitution Revisions

Courtney Pasco, a graduate student of French Education at SUNY Oswego will be giving us an overview of and strategies applicable with Google Earth, with a special focus on the timeline of the Berlin Wall, just in time for Deutschlandjahr and the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall.  This is something that can be used in all levels of German instruction.

Also on the agenda is a broader conversation/brainstorming opportunity to plan for the anniversary in our classrooms.

In terms of Chapter business, we have been asked to update our constitution every five years, and have done so this January, so members will be voting on these revisions at that meeting.  Here is a link to the revisions:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1K7_YR21ShxlBl8jDvIkYt8omg0ZdR2Zz 

Lastly, we will vote for the positions of Vice President and a Secretary of our local chapter, and then we will be turning the presidential reins over to most capable Mona Eikel-Pohen. 

Please let Kate Stewart know if  you will be attending. eiskate@twcny.rr.com

Herbsttreffen Bericht: 6. Oktober 2018

In preparation for next year's 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, and the Goethe Institut's Deutschlandjahr, participants shared Mauerfall ideas from 2009 and 2014 including relevant films:

• Karl Marx City (Netflix)
• Two Lives (Netflix)
• Sonnenallee
• 12 heißt “ich liebe dich”

And books:

• Kinderland (Mawil)

Other ideas of celebration included a Mauer cake, the building of a Mauer and its destruction.  
(Done at SU with architecture students, and at FM in the classroom using shoe boxes) SUNY Oswego
professors are contemplating building a wall on campus in August and keeping it up until Nov 9, 2019.
Members brainstormed group project ideas including a visit the piece of the wall located in Syracuse
behind the MOST museum.  

Ben Gerardi shared the following link: http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/lernen/

(Arbeitsblätter and listening comprehension pieces)

The date for the next meeting will be Saturday, April 6th, 2018 at FM High School,

9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Topics proposed:

• Funding ideas
• Bundesliga im Unterricht
• Study in Germany - MA and how to get stipends
• 3rd semester/3rd year German retention problems and solutions

Participants will be broken up into groups - secondary and college level and will share ideas. Workshop participants are encouraged to come with concrete suggestions to share.

Notes:

April 2019 will be President Kate Stewart’s last meeting in her current term.  A Vice President from the secondary level will be nominated between now and then.

Action Items:

Harald Zils is looking for an adjunct instructor for 102 German at Binghamton for the spring semester.

Note:  A Vice President will be voted upon at our next meeting. Interested secondary teachers should notify either Kate Stewart (eiskate@twcny.rr.com) or Mona Eikel-Pohen (meikelpo@syr.edu)

Herbst Treffen 2018

Unser nächstes Treffen und der dazu gehörige Workshop findet wie gewöhnlich 

an der FM High School in Zimmer 2213 statt.

Wir haben ein leichtes Frühstück und Kaffee um 9:30.
10:00 - 12:30 ist der Workshop und unser Business Meeting.

Das Thema ist Deutschlandjahr und 2019 Pläne zum 30. Jubiläum des Mauerfalls.

Wir sind bereit unsere neuen Ideen und auch vorher verwendeten Aktivitäten zum wichtigen Ereignis zu besprechen.
Seid so nett und bringt eure Kreativität und Motivation auch mit, um zu teilen.

Sagt mir, bitte Bescheid, dass ihr kommt.
eiskate@twcny.rr.com