2003 Fall Conference      UNC Greensboro, 12-13 Sep 2003      Jugendliteratur mit Autorin Karin Gündisch       ________________________________________________________________ Home Registration (pdf) Schedule Lodgings Directions and Parking Karin Gündisch in North Carolina (K. Baumgartner's great page with lots of cool info!)

Dear Colleagues,

The NC Chapter of AATG eagerly invites you to our Fall 2003 meeting, to be held Fri-Sat, September 12-13, 2003, at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Thanks to our host, Secretary/Treasurer Karin Baumgartner, we've got a terrific seminar lined up with a special guest, author Karin Gündisch. Karin is joining us from Germany as she begins a one-month reading tour through the United States.

Our seminar: "Jugendliteratur mit Autorin Karin Gündisch," features the award-winning author of several books for children and young people, all of which have been successfully used in German classrooms at all levels here in the States. Our facilitator for the workshop is another terrific educator, Anne Green (Carnegie Mellon University, creator of the national AATG supersite!), who has developed copious activities for using Gündisch's works with audiences from elementary school to college. Anne regularly presents with Gisela Moffit, our facilitator for the past spring meeting, and she's a dynamic speaker and teacher. In short, this will be a great conference you won't want to miss!

We'll have copies of some of Gündisch's works on hand (Ein Brüderchen für Lili, Im Land der Schokolade und Bananen, and Das Paradies liegt in Amerika), and you'll bring away many ideas for using these and other youth literature in your teaching at whatever level you regularly work with. There's a private dinner with the author Friday night, a public reading from Paradies later that evening, and a full day of Didaktisierungen (ready-made, and designed by you as participants) during the day Saturday. We're hoping you can make both days of the Fri.-Sat. event, but if you can only come on Saturday, you're sure to come away with plenty of ideas all the same. We're starting early and ending late (9-4:30) because there's so much on the program!

We've sent all of you postcards with a reply card you can return (to Beverly Moser, see address below), or you may print out the registration form here and return it (again to Moser) to save your spot. Please respond by September 5, 2003. Also, if you need inexpensive (and possibly even FREE) lodging, please follow the accommodations link at the top. Please take care of lodging when you register so we can keep our low rates!!! We'll even hook you up with a roommate if you want!

My address and contact numbers are: Beverly Moser, Dept. of Foreign Langs. and Lits, Box 32063, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, phone: 828-262-2303, e-mail: moserba@appstate.edu. Yes, I will send you a paper copy of the program or anything else if you need one--no questions asked ! And don't forget, invite other teachers of German; this one will be a real winner!

I look forward to a great turnout in September!

Beverly Moser
Chapter President, NCAATG