The article presents and discusses materials for a cultural lesson about Green Germany. An introductory mini-unit frames the over-all student learning objective: students should be able to respond to the questions "Where are we?" and "Where are we going?" with regard to the natural environment. Three different units then help students with these questions. The first two units describe where people in Germany and the US are; the third helps them reflect on where we are going and where their generation can help take us. Although the ACTFL Standards are not addressed explicitly, implicit treatment of these can be recognized in the approach presented. Communication about this cultural topic helps students see comparisons, connections, and communities. §

His area of scientific research is design process methodologies and his teaching interests include introductory computer design courses and the development of international experiences for engineering students.

Philology, Racha Kirakosian engages with the German versions of Gertrude of Hefta's Legatus divinae pietatis, arguing that each reshaping of the text served its readership as uniquely as did its predecessor. She rejects the notion that the vernacular texts were mere translations and instead refers to them variously as redactions, reshapings, and rewritings. As the Legatus took different shapes-first in Latin and eventually in German-redactors and readers could self-reflectively generate their own devotional meaning from images described in Gertrude's earlier text. Gertrude's descriptions of material objects-a garment or the heart, for example (corporeal images)-could be reimagined in the redactor's and in the reader's own devotional context; hence, a portion of the book's title: From the Material to the Mystical.The Legatus divinae pietatis was composed, at least in part, by Gertrude of Helfta (commonly known as Gertrude the Great) in the Cistercian convent Helfta near Eisleben in about 1300. German redactions began to appear not long afterward. These texts, Latin and German, are the focus of Kirakosian's study.The opening chapters of Kirakosian's study set the scene in which Gertrude's text was produced and transmitted. Chapter 1 ("The Helfta Scriptorium") characterizes the complex and collaborative nature of authorship among the Helfta nuns, drawing particularly on the newly discovered Leipzig Legatus (Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. 827, fols. 25 v −148 r ), whose special prologue and distinctive structure underscore that reshapings and redactions were applied to the text even before vernacular versions appeared. Chapter 2 ("Redactions within a Dynamic Textuality") first reviews

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