I had to do this project for my German class, and I couldn't really think of anything so I decided to do a history and shooting lesson on a Mauser 98k. When the video popped up my class just sort of stared. I said, "With the shirts I wear you guys really shouldn't be surprised." That day I was wearing a shirt from my local gun shop, Elite Arms and Supply. I can't wait until I leave California...
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What?
What does that have to do with German class? Was the video in German or did it involve a lot of information about the cultural importance of the weapon?
What does that have to do with German class? Was the video in German or did it involve a lot of information about the cultural importance of the weapon?
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I once tutored a Russian student to pass an exam on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." I had to explain what a sawed-off shotgun was and draw a picture (it wasn't in the school's dictionary). When we finished the tutorial, he asked if this reading was supposed to be belles-lettres or zoology. In other words, he didn't think it was funny. The best jokes can lose their humor when you're struggling with a new language, and Mark Twain's American English is very challenging to foreign students — even to students who watch John Ford's Westerns for practice. Knowing how to load and fire a hammer coach gun would have done nothing for my pupil's language skills.
A presentation on the Karabiner 98 Kurz, an obsolete infantry weapon, would be inappropriate even in a military academy. Chicagoans are cruder and more outspoken than Californians, and your fellow students here would have stopped you as soon as you began.
For your next presentation, I suggest this interview with Jens Hoffmann, not the museum curator J. Hoffmann but the forensic psychologist at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
http://www.taz.de/!31662/
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Dr. Hoffmann at TU Darmstadt specializes in what we call "school shooters," although the German term is not firearms specific (Amokläufer, mass killer, literally "amok runner"). Send me a PM if you need an English translation of the interview. I'm always glad to help a fellow Germanist.
A presentation on the Karabiner 98 Kurz, an obsolete infantry weapon, would be inappropriate even in a military academy. Chicagoans are cruder and more outspoken than Californians, and your fellow students here would have stopped you as soon as you began.
For your next presentation, I suggest this interview with Jens Hoffmann, not the museum curator J. Hoffmann but the forensic psychologist at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
http://www.taz.de/!31662/
There is a nag screen asking for a voluntary donation: check the box by the text "NEIN, jetzt nicht" and it goes away.
Dr. Hoffmann at TU Darmstadt specializes in what we call "school shooters," although the German term is not firearms specific (Amokläufer, mass killer, literally "amok runner"). Send me a PM if you need an English translation of the interview. I'm always glad to help a fellow Germanist.
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Pooh. Sounds like an OK presentation to me.
I once did a high school presentation on samurai swords, and used the one my father brought home from WW II to illustrate. (It being the '60s, this was allowed.)
I also once had an assignment to teach something in French. I taught a math problem. I worked it on the board, pointed to each line, and sat down. Fortunately, I was taking the course pass/fail and the professor let me get away with it.
I once did a high school presentation on samurai swords, and used the one my father brought home from WW II to illustrate. (It being the '60s, this was allowed.)
I also once had an assignment to teach something in French. I taught a math problem. I worked it on the board, pointed to each line, and sat down. Fortunately, I was taking the course pass/fail and the professor let me get away with it.
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Had a stoner kid in Jr. High bring a bong to class for a demo during a section on drugs in Health class. Thing reeked like hell. Was a wonder he didn't get in trouble. This was the late '70's & I guess everybody was just so surprised the guy was actually participating in class they let it go.
