German B - Copenhagen International School

paragraphing. Technical correctness e.g. relevant use of quotations, sourcing and footnoting.
3. Style and Language: Appropriateness of style and register, including grammatical
correctness, appropriate and diverse vocabulary, appropriate usage of punctuation, and ability
to generate varied sentence structures.
Core texts/resources:
Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli; Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield; Chinese Cinderella by
Adeline Yen Mah. Short stories, plays, essays, poems and folklore are included in the course and
taken from two anthologies, Beginnings in Literature and Glencoe Literature: Reading with Purpose.
N.B. Texts may be subject to change in accordance with class needs. Likewise, there may be
additions to the reading list.
Assessment assignments
Throughout the year, assessments will be generated from tests, quizzes, project work, creative and
analytical writing and finally participation and attitude. In class and home assignments are expected.
To encourage independent thinking and evaluation processes, students are periodically involved in
creating rubrics for assignments and writing self­assessments of their own work.
N.B. Independent Reading Program
In addition to course work, students are required to read 10 books, 8 of which must be in English and
outside the curriculum of the academic school year. The other 2 must have been originally written in
the student´s mother tongue. These books may be fiction or non­fiction, poetry or prose. Each text
must comprise a minimum of 100 pages. Students keep a record of their reading and parents sign off
that the reading has been completed. The record is turned in at the end of the school year.
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