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Here are two recent posts to the AATG listserv with suggestions for celebrating Oktoberfest with your students. The first requires very little preparation; the other is a full-blown festival involving lots of activities.

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Here's a page I made for my kids. I decorated the room with Rautenmuster flags, blue and white streamers and such. I served cider and pretzels and ran through this Web page: http://drachendeutsch.net/feste/oktoberfest

Call, G. [AATG-L] MC: Should we teach Oktoberfest? -- is it German? American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (12 Sept. 2006).

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Last year, with the help of a grant, a German colleague of mine held Oktoberfest on a Saturday at her school. Seven schools participated, bringing students. Some of the activities included:

- watching movies in German
- German cafe
- little books and mini-gummi bears for sale
- quiz bowl
- art--painting, cutting out
- German disco (with popular German music prerecorded on CDs and Teenage DJs)
- German dancing
- German conversation. German speakers--teachers, etc., signed student passes. When three were done, the students traded them in for German buttons (like at Teachers' Discovery).

A fun time was had by all!

Haynes, J. Re: [AATG-L] Oktoberfest ideas. American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (13 Sept. 2006).
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