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October 10, 2020

Newsletter of the Goethe-Institut Washington

Dear Friends,

Since K-12 learning is largely taking place online these days, our German educational outreach department has adapted swimmingly! Resources for middle- and high-school-level students taking German classes are available in a number of forms: our "Unterrichtshäppchen," bite-sized one-page PDF lessons covering a variety of topics, are updated monthly with new and timely themes. Our colleagues in Montréal are also engaging young German-learners in dialogues about food and sustainability in a series of worksheets, programming, and a cooking contest.

Have you already been learning German a while – as a high schooler or a college student – and feel ready to explore what next steps you could take with your German knowledge? Join our virtual Career Days in October to see what's out there for you.

Following the Town Hall launch of Shaping the Past, Goethe-Instituts across the USA, Canada, and Mexico will participate in Memory Month: an extended virtual and in-person program series highlighting and discussing ongoing critical memory interventions in sites and spaces, and in particular, monuments, in North America and Germany. The program features Monument Lab transnational Fellows, as well as prominent international voices in the field. Thanks to technology, virtual events across the region are available for everyone to tune into – take a look at the interesting conversations we have coming up!

If you want to demonstrate your German aptitude in seeking a new career or education path for yourself, obtaining an internationally-recognize Goethe-Institut certificate of German ability is a great way to do so. Fall 2020 exam registration is open now.

German Online

U-Häppchen
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Instructional Materials

October U-Häppchen Are Here!

Our October U-Häppchen are here! Explore contemporary topics in the German-speaking world, combined with authentic, student-oriented tasks. Bite-size, one-page, interactive PDFs are for immediate download and use in your classroom.

October topics: “Sport in Times of Corona” and “Against Racism.” New U-Häppchen are published every month for German beginner students in Middle/High Schools (level A1-A2). 

FInd U-Häppchen Materials Here
Wie gut ist lecker?
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Concepts and Materials

Wie gut ist lecker?

Wie gut ist lecker? (How good is tasty?) Food is one of the most popular topics in German classes and for a good reason! This fall, students in German 3 or higher can learn more about food and sustainability with free interactive worksheets designed for project-based learning in person or online, including a cooking contest that might get them into a real German food blog! First topic? Chocolate!

More + Materials
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Career Resources

Career Days go Virtual!

Join us on November 5 and 6 from 11:00AM - 04:00PM EDT for two US-wide virtual Career Days for high school and college students! Whether you or your students are interested in studying in Germany, or wanting to hear first-hand about various career opportunities with German, representatives of German business and higher education are looking forward to answering participants' most burning questions. This event is free, but registration is mandatory. Register now and stay tuned for our full program!

REGISTER HERE

Competitions

Our Sustainable Future 2021

Think, research, act! The competition Our Sustainable Future is now open for 2020-2021 with new opportunities for students. Have you heard of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations? Have you witnessed sustainability issues in your community? Do you have ideas how to make the future more sustainable and just for all? We want to hear them! 

Check out our website for the latest on this year’s competition and see how you and your peers can get active at www.goethe.de/stepintogerman/sustainability 

OUR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Green Academy Christoph Biemann
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German for Children

Green Academy: "Let’s Put the World Back in Children’s Hands"

Students between 8 and 14 can participate in the Green Academy, starting October 29, 2020. Interactive video lectures ranging from experiments and philosophy to sustainability will be hosted monthly in the Digital WanderbUS. Well-known TV presenter Christoph Biemann (Die Sendung mit der Maus) and philosophy lecturer Ana Laura Edelhoff offer hands-on science experiments and/or engage in philosophical conversations with students. The Goethe-Institut will provide teaching materials. Registration is required, and spots are limited!

Register Now for Green Academy
Summer Courses
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Starting October 19, 2020

Fall Virtual Blended Learning and Special Topics Classes

Still working from home? Why not learn German? Our Virtual Blended Learning courses consist of 50% live group sessions, and 50% flexible online learning, closely supported by your instructors. Online Group Courses offer more flexibility, as well as live sessions online in your group once every two weeks. New: special topics classes on the Bauhaus, German Grammar and improving your writing in German!

Register Now!
Los Angeles Prüfungen
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German Examinations

Certificate Exams Fall 2020

Register now for one of our internationally-recognized Goethe-Institut certificate exams in Fall 2020. Tests at various levels are offered weekly throughout the fall. We strongly encourage only those participants who require certification for essential work/study/travel to register for an exam in order to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19.

Register Now!

Culture at Home

Counter Memories Key Visual
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Shaping the Past | Available Monday, October 12

Counter Memories: Joel Garcia

In the USA, Germany, and throughout the world, citizens are questioning conventional historical narratives and reflecting on the meanings and implications of public monuments. 

The conversation series Counter Memories will investigate a number of international monuments and places of remembrance whose symbolic significance often reveals a great deal about our relationship to history. The Thomas Mann House, the Goethe-Institutes in North America, and Onassis LA will convene artists, activists, and intellectuals for illustrated virtual conversations around historical memory.

The first episode will be released on October 12, 2020, Indigenous Peoples' Day, and brings Los Angele-based artist and cultural organizer Joel Garcia into discussion with interviewer and curator Paul Holdengräber, to investigate the significance of place, memory, and memorialization to Indigenous communities in contemporary Los Angeles. 

Counter Memories
Memory Month
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Shaping the Past

Memory Month

One of the upsides of our Shaping the Past Memory Month programming going completely virtual is that you can join Memory Month events throughout the USA, Canada, and Mexico – events that were initially planned to take place in physical spaces, but are now relegated to the digital sphere. The more voices in these discussions, the merrier!

Check out our full list of Memory Month events occuring across North America and tune in to several of our fellow institutes' upcoming virtual events – including "Unmonumenting, Science, and Strategy" via Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (October 14 at 3:00pm EDT); "Missing Black Technofossil Here: Virtual Tour + Interactive Website Launch with Quentin VerCetty" via Goethe-Institut Montréal (October 17 at 3:00pm); "There Are Black People in the Future: Artist Talk with Alisha Wormsley and Contributing Kansas City Artists" via Goethe Pop-Up Kansas City (October 18 at 3:00pm EDT), and more.

Memory Month
German Russian
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German Literature

Custom Culture: "(Ge)bor(e)n in the USSR"

Novels by German writers of Soviet-Jewish backgrounds have stood out in the literary and general fiction world since the 2000s. Why are these stories of identity and hybridity so compelling? Raleigh Joyner, Cultural Programming Coordinator at the Goethe-Institut Washington, begins a blogging series examining three novels from some of the most outstanding voices in German-language literature today – all of whom share the experience of being born in the USSR, immigrating to Germany, and penning their debut novels in German.

Custom Culture
Potholes
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Potholes

Montreal, We Have a Problem

Every year, the city of Montreal repairs nearly 200,000 potholes, the equivalent of roughly 50 potholes per kilometer. While the city of Montreal attributes the problem to the spring freeze-and-thaw cycle, the public has been denouncing the deteriorating road infrastructure for years.

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