Corbin Mathias

This one-page, two-sided PDF provides the lyrics to the songs "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival and "Holiday" by Green Day along with questions that check for student understanding and prompt quality class discussion. It is an exciting, fun, and interesting way to introduce a unit on the Vietnam War in a way that really garners students' interest.

Simulated arrival and departure tables for students in German 2 or 3 with accompanying questions. Includes answer key. Authentic, applicable, and accessible. Perfect for a unit on travel and uses separable prefix verbs (ankommen, abfahren). Tags: Reisen, Bahn, Bahnhof, Zug.

This file contains the outline, rubric, and resources for an explanatory paper and personal project where students examine and analyze the roles of the government, the media, soldiers, and protesters played in shaping the Vietnam War. It has various levels and options to provide some built-in differentiated instruction. Additionally, the rubrics for scoring the students' papers and their projects are included as well as a comprehensive list of direct links to quality internet resources for stude

This is a handout to give to students to fill out when they set up their Catan board and when class period is over, so they can pause their game, pack it up, return the next day, and start back off where they left off. This includes both a file for the standard 3-4 person game, as well as a file if you're using the expansion pack (5-6 person game). Please also check out the (free!) Siedler von Catan Überblick/Phrases sheet - an easy, quick reference/overview sheet in German for your students to

Give your students scaffolded, realistic practice with asking for and telling information about train arrivals and departures in German! This is an "info gap" activity for students in partners. Perfect for any unit on traveling and trains. Helpful phrases included for students and the teacher key is included too of course, so it's all ready to print and use instantly. 20-30 minute activity geared for Level 2 or 3. Tags: German, Ankunftstafel, Abfahrtstafel, trains, Bahn, Zug, arrivals, departure

This activity provides a ready to go natural speaking activity where students take on the roles of doctors and patients and ask/tell how they feel and provide advice as to what to do. The materials for students provide just enough structure to support them and build their confidence in speaking freely. Approximately 15 - 20 minutes. Perfect for any unit on health / Gesundheit, and Körperteile / body parts!

Designed for the whole class, this speaking activity requires students to speak many times with their classmates and try to find out where something is located in the city. A perfect compliment for any German 1 or 2 unit focused on cities and asking/giving directions. 10 - 20 minutes. Tags: German, In der Stadt, Meine Stadt, Anweisungen

These series of graded (easy to hard) simplified maps perfectly challenge students in asking and giving directions in German. A perfect, ready made partner speaking activity for your Level 2 or Level 3 students. The activity can last anywhere from 10-20 minutes, and with multiple maps included, you have an excellent, go-to speaking practice activity ready for multiple class periods. Compliments any unit from any textbook series on cities and giving directions. Tags: German, giving directions, in

Rubric included!! In this assignment, students will research key events leading up to the Civil War, then present to the class an overview of the event and make the case as to why their event was the pivotal event in causing Civil War. (Spoiler alert: they all were.)

In this ready-made activity, students interpret pictures, maps, and text describing a room in a WG apartment that is available. The other two inhabitants of the WG are looking for someone to move in to the now vacant room. The text is authentic, native German. I personally use this activity with my AP students as precursor to actually using the WG-Gesucht website. It gets students familiar again with all those words they learned earlier in German, familiar with the format of WG-Gesucht without

Have students take this questionnaire about how they might want to live their lives, then try to pare things down a bit to save some money, and see what life was like for a typical factory worker or laborer during the Industrial Revolution, making connections to what that might be like in today's terms.

One of my favorite quotes from author Robert Louis Stevenson. Add it to your classroom. Download the file and print it (11x17in) at your local printing shop, Office Depot, or Kinko's. The photo on the poster is from a morning in Tuscany, Italy.

A comprehensive, ready to go presentation on the accusative, dative, and two-way prepositions for German. Clear, easy-to-follow explanations and examples for students. Includes notes on related contractions used. Note: This file is currently only available in Keynote (Apple laptops/iPads only) or as a PDF (both Mac and PC). Both the Keynote and the PDF are included in the download. Also includes a printable handout for students. A PowerPoint version is in the works.

A powerpoint providing an overview of the Persian Gulf War. The beginning guides students in groups to form discussions about the role of the US in the world and then reassess and evaluate their priorities in the particular context of the Persian Gulf War. Please contact me if you'd prefer a Keynote file instead of a PowerPoint file.

This is a ready made 15-25 minute interactive speaking activity (info gap) on the topic of asking about friend's interests and hobbies to decide the best gift to give him/her. A clear example with scaffolded phrases is provided to help the students as they speak. Additionally, students are asked to then state and justify their choice of gift for each of the four friends, allowing appropriate and meaningful practice with grammatical structures such as conjunctions and indirect object pronouns. Te

This one page, two-sided handout is a useful cheat sheet for students of German to help them find the right words, find better ways of phrasing things, and avoid making common mistakes - all without asking them to use an online dictionary (where, let's be honest, they can get things quite wrong). I allow my students to use this every time they write an essay or extended paragraph for me.

This assignment has students chart the key aspects of the Great Society from textbook reading or independent research. Then it asks them to examine condensed primary source documents arguing for and against the Great Society and then share their own thoughts about the Great Society and the role of government. Teacher key included!!

A sign to place near a wall outlet or power strip for student to charge their devices.

This assignment is based on the Radiolab podcast episode (link included) exploring the Nazi POW camps across America during WWII, the Geneva Convention, the Holocaust, Japanese Internment Camps, and more, as they confront the moral dilemma America faced during the war in its treatment of prisoners of war. An excellent supplementary, stand-alone assignment that can also tie in well with a lesson on Japanese Internment Camps. Answer key included.

Preistafel für Auskünfte ("Prices for Information"). Just a fun sign to hang up for room decoration that will get your students to chuckle and maybe make them reach for the dictionary and expand their vocabulary while they're at it. Just download and print on 8.5x11 paper.