Maine German Student-of-the-Year 2008
TBA
Sprachfest 2008
The 11th Annual Sprachfest - TBA
Annual Fall Meeting 2007
The 2008 fall meeting will be held at Cony High School in Augusta on Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 2-5pm.
Topic: "Werbung im Deutschunterricht" [How to Use Commercials and Advertisements in your German Classes]. Carol Ladd (Maranacook High School) and Gisela Hoecherl-Alden (University of Maine) will share ideas and materials from recent conferences and workshops. If you plan to attend, RSVP to Deb at dorth@augustaschools.org or Gisela at Gisela_Hoecherl_Alden@umit.maine.edu by September 22.
Goethe-Institut-sponsored Professional Development Workshop:
"Becoming German" by Joanne Moar
This workshop will be held at Deering High School on Saturday, November 3 from 10am-3pm. Joanne is a native of New Zealand, who has lived in Germany for many years, and will guide workshop participants to think about how childhood memories shape who we become and invites them to donate memories to or borrow them from a database to explore issues of cultural identity, memory, and appropriation.
For more information about Joanne Moar's project, please visit:
http://www.becoming-german.de/.
Thanks to generous support from the Goethe Institut in Boston, this workshop is free to members of the Maine AATG. If you want to attend, RSVP to Marlies Reppenhagen at reppem@portlandschools.org or Gisela Hoecherl-Alden at Gisela_Hoecherl_Alden@umit.maine.edu by October 26.
Register early, as space is limited!
AATG Awards Tea, Blaine House
Click here to read Carol Ladd's description of the event
Click here to view a group photo.
The Awards Tea at Blaine House in Augusta took place May 17, 2006.
Click here for a copy of Gisela Hoecherl-Alden's keynote address (MS Word doc).
Immersion Weekend Camp Out in Albion
As a Service Learning Project organized by University of Maine German students, six college students camped out with fifteen German students from Cony High School to spend the weekend immersed in German.
The weekend was made possible by a generous Active Learning Grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Maine, which was awarded to Gisela Hoecherl-Alden and Deborah Orth. Click here for photos of the event.