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Watch and Wonder: Foreign Languages in Today’s Society Question: What is your opinion of each of these situations involving the use of foreign language in public? Airline Allegedly Removes Man for Speaking Arabic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=987fkumGuK0 Canadian Woman Upset with Chinese-speaking Worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2byLizPh93Q Use of Spanish in an American Restaurant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNaP73ezULI

Analyze and Wonder: German-Americans in Ohio Think about the questions below as we read this article: http:www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/German _Ohioans How did German immigrants attempt to • maintain their culture in Ohio towns and cities? Why were native-born and “nativist” • Americans against the influx of German immigrants into Ohio? How did WWI affect German-American • culture in Ohio?

Assault on German Language The Democratic Banner (Mt. Vernon, OH), May 14, 1918 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn880 78751/1918-05-14/ed-1/seq-4/

Activity: Federal Investigation Activity: Federal Investigation During the WWI years suspicions surrounded the Volksblatt, a daily Cincinnati newspaper printed almost completely in German. On Oct. 6, 1917, government agents stormed the Volksblatt’s offices to determine if the German-American newspaper was publishing “seditious” articles, meaning these articles encouraged people to rebel against government authorities and the American war effort. Within your group of 2-3, you will be placed in the role of those federal agents, translating the October 6, 1917 issue of the Volksblatt to determine if its editors were publishing seditious articles.

Activity: Federal Investigation Activity: Federal Investigation To the best of your ability using the Fraktur alphabet below, translate the October 6, 1917 article on the backside from the Volksblatt to determine if its editors were publishing seditious articles. Your group has ten minutes.

Activity: Federal Investigation Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt, October 6, 1917, Page 1 Column 3 Link to page: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045474/1917-10-06/ed- 1/seq-1/ Questions to think about: What does this report seem to be about? Is this enough evidence to prove whether this newspaper is “seditious”?

Activity: Providing Deeper Context with Newspaper Analysis Instructions: With your group, read the following translated articles from the October 6, 1917 issue, gathering evidence about whether the Volksblatt was engaging in “seditious” publishing. Article: Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt, October 6, 1917, Page 3 Column 3 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045474/1917-10-06/ed-1/seq-3/ Questions to Think About: What does this article seem to be about? • Is there evidence in this article to prove that this newspaper is “seditious”? •

Activity: Providing Deeper Context with Newspaper Analysis Instructions: With your group, read the following translated articles from the October 6, 1917 issue, gathering evidence about whether the Volksblatt was engaging in “seditious” publishing. Article: Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt, October 6, 1917, Page 5 Column 1 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045474/1917-10-06/ed-1/seq-5/ Questions to Think About: What does this article seem to be about? • Is there evidence in this article to prove that this newspaper is “seditious”? •

Activity: Providing Deeper Context with Newspaper Analysis Instructions: With your group, read the following translated articles from the October 6, 1917 issue, gathering evidence about whether the Volksblatt was engaging in “seditious” publishing. Article: Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt, October 6, 1917, Page 1 Column 1 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045474/1917-10-06/ed-1/seq-1/ Questions to Think About: What does this article seem to be about? • Is there evidence in this article to prove that this newspaper is “seditious”? •

Activity: Federal Investigation - Your Team’s Official Statement Instructions: With your investigation group, write an official written statement that summarizes • what you found during your analysis of the Volksblatt. Also, make a final conclusion as to whether you believe this newspaper is • seditious or not. Your written statement must be at least five sentences. •