Seventh Annual German Day: "Deutsch macht das Leben süß"     © Stephanie Liu, Ligon Middle Schoo. Click to learn more. March 22, 2007 9:30-3:00 pm Fine Arts Center, Salem College Registration Download the 2007 registration form here (pdf). Deadline is March 2, 2007.   Competitions See all contests here. Judges will be confirmed on location.   Schedule Find the schedule here (pdf).   Map and Directions Salem College Salem Map From Business 40 East or West Take Interstate 52 South. Take the Stadium Drive exit (it’s the first exit) and turn right at the top of the ramp. Continue straight through the light at Salem Avenue. You will see the cemetery on your right. The Fine Arts Center will be on your left at the bottom of the hill. From Bypass 40 East or West Take Interstate 52 North. Take the Stadium Drive exit (it’s the first exit) and turn right at the top of the ramp. Continue straight through 2 traffic lights - the second is at the intersection with Salem Avenue. You will see the cemetery on your right. The Fine Arts Center will be on your left at the bottom of the hill. Contact Norgard Klages Assistant Professor of German Salem College 601 S. Church Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101-5318 Phone: 336.721.2758 klages@salem.edu ___________________
Dear Friends: You and your students are all cordially invited to NC-AATG’s seventh annual German Day, to be held this year on Thursday, March 22, at Salem College from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. German Day has a strong tradition in NC and the future looks bright. Karin Baumgartner hosted German Day for five years at UNC-Greensboro; Scott Denham and Davidson College hosted in 2006; and this year I look forward to seeing everyone at Salem College. Elon (Scott Windham) and UNC-Chapel Hill (Dick Langston) will host in the coming years. 2007 competitions will be the same as those in 2006. Participants at a 2005 workshop sought to structure competitions that would advance two goals: work towards fairness in the competitions by having clear information about the content of the various contests available to everyone before the event (see details here); and expand a bit to allow more opportunities for students of varying skill and competency levels. Thus we offer again an extemporaneous speaking category (with an emphasis on a handful of current topics of interest in culture and politics), and made more clear the place in the competitions for heritage learners or for those students who have spent time in a German-speaking country or school. We will continue from 2006 the process of written qualifying rounds for the spelling bee, verb bee, and the Kultur-Pokal. This will allow more students to participate; will make things more equitable, since all students in a given competition answer the same sets of questions during the preliminary rounds, rather than the luck-of-the-draw nature of the bee-format; and will make things more time-efficient. Competitions are: the Spelling Bee (level I and II students) – up to 5 students per school; the Verb Bee (advanced students in levels III and higher) – up to 5 students per school; the Poetry Recitation Contest (with a separate section for heritage learners*) – up to 8 students (2 each in levels I, II & III, plus 2 heritage*) per school; the Extemporaneous Speaking Contest – up to 6 students per school, 2 each in 3 levels; the Skit Contest – up to 2 teams per school; the Singing Contest – up to 4 performances per school, 2 in each level; the Kultur-Pokal Contest, level I (questions in English for German I and II) – up to 3 teams per school; and level II (questions in German for German III+ and heritage learners*) – up to 3 teams per school (broad cultural knowledge that is available in our NC textbooks is the basis for this contest); the Poster Contest – up to 5 entries per school; the Art Contests – up to 10 entries per school, 5 each in 2D art and photography; and the T-Shirt Logo Contest – up to 5 entries per school. [Congratulations to Stephanie Liu and her teacher Jo Garrison on submitting the winning design.] (*"heritage learners" are native speakers, students who speak German at home, or students who have been to full-time German school, in Europe or a Deutsche Schule elsewhere. If you have questions about a student who might qualify as a heritage learner, please contact Scott Denham.) For the Spelling Bee and Verb Bee Contests we will use only words in our textbooks Komm mit! and Deutsch aktuell. We’ve provided a list of verbs for the Verb Bee. For the Kultur-Pokal we will quiz only information contained in in our textbooks Komm mit!, Deutsch aktuell and Kaleidoskop. And as always, all contests have prizes for the best performance. Each school may participate in all activities, though scheduling constraints will force you and your students to choose some specific activities for each student.Who can do what? (See the schedule to get an idea of which competitions are happening at which hours.) You will need to make sure your students participate in activities that are not cross-scheduled. You are again invited to bring all of your students to campus to help cheer on their classmates. The motto of the 7th annual German Day is "Deutsch macht das Leben süß," and this motto must be incorporated into the skits, posters, t-shirt design, and will be part of the extemporaneous speaking prompt, as well. Deadlines! We need your registration forms by February 28. Mail them to me before then and don't forget to order t-shirts! Money matters! Required Registration = $4; Optional T-Shirt = $9.00; Optional Lunch = $7.00. In other words, $20 gets students everything they need: t-shirt, lunch, and the registration fee. Teachers and judges who are AATG members: lunch and t-shirt free of charge. No registration fee. Teachers and judges who are not AATG members: lunch free of charge; t-shirt $9. No registration fee. [ AATG dues are set by salary and range from $30-$95 per year. If you are interested in becoming a member, please consult our constitution and by-laws and see the information on the national page]. We look forward to another great German Day! Thanks. Norgard Klages