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Latin for Everyone: Building on writing
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Monday, May 4, 2015. I like to do a short writing activity where I pick a topic we've been working with and spend all week writing about it. On day one, the kids are asked to fill in the blanks in a sentence. On day two, the kids are asked to write one sentence about the topic. We share the sentences in class and circle them, and that way the kids hear everyone else's idea. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). FVR - free voluntary reading and TarHeel Reader. Games Your Students Play - Concentration 64.
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Latin for Everyone: Imperfect and Perfect Tenses
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Friday, August 8, 2014. Imperfect and Perfect Tenses. Understanding of the story because they've heard it in English several times, but they are eventually only processing it in Latin. I wrote out a short text in Latin like this:. Ursa in silva habitabat. Ego in silva ambulabam. Cervos et plantas spectavi. A bear was living in the woods. I was walking in the woods. I saw deer and plants. Suddenly a bear appeared. Subito, ursa apparuit. Ursa, "ROAR! Suddenly a bear appeared. The bear said, "ROAR! We did a...
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Latin for Everyone: If I had a superpower - visualizing stories
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Monday, May 4, 2015. If I had a superpower - visualizing stories. If I had a superpower, it would be this: I'd love to be able to hold out my hand and just project at will, in the air, images or videos of whatever I happen to be seeing in my mind's eye at the time. Well, there are a lot of methods. One of them is asking students to visualize, actively, particular scenes in stories or texts, and to ask them to describe specifically, in detail, what they see. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Its all wel...
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Latin for Everyone: A Queen of Monsters, or, on the importance of phrases
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Thursday, April 23, 2015. A Queen of Monsters, or, on the importance of phrases. I have a small confession, which is that I once forgot that 88 in Latin is not expressed as eighty-eight but rather as two-from-ninety and accidentally taught my kids the wrong number, and did so in a phrase that gets repeated a lot. Which only serves to illustrate my point. My children, for the most part, are never. Which in Latin is the sort of cumbersome milia passuum. It's adorable, and I highly recommend it). We did...
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Latin for Everyone: Putting together my classroom
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Putting together my classroom. All links in this post will take you to where you can get those materials, if you should want them. Most are free, but the expectations posters, alas, are not. This bookshelf is painted so that it's graded by level. Blue is beginner, red is intermediate (which is a HUGE range), and yellow is advanced. The top shelf is for dictionaries and songbooks. I may have forgotten a couple. These are my expectations posters. This is my idiom. Wall I have fou...
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Latin for Everyone: Popplet and mind mapping
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Thursday, February 19, 2015. Popplet and mind mapping. Mind mapping is a technique frequently used to bring up old ideas, associate ideas with each other, and organize thoughts by summarizing. Visual students frequently benefit from them. Today, my Latin four students ended a unit by using Popplet.com (which is free up to five mind maps! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have found in my journey in Latin speaking that the most difficult thing for me (other than, good heavens, convoluted clauses withi...
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Latin for Everyone: Locutiones Latinae
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Sunday, July 27, 2014. I have found in my journey in Latin speaking that the most difficult thing for me (other than, good heavens, convoluted clauses within clauses) has by far been speaking Latin. Quomodo res se habent. How things are going. Velim te/ex te aliquid interrogare. I'd like to ask you something (a quaestio is philosophical; a rogandum is what we consider a question). You hit the nail on the head. I've forgotten, it escapes me. I remember, I have it in my memory. It works, he does a job.
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Latin for Everyone: More CI Games
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014. I've been adapting Jeopardy recently to work better with a CI approach rather than a 'fact recall' game, and I have yet to have a class for whom it doesn't work. This is a fairly high-output game for the kids, but it is limited by the types of questions they can ask, and it's also mitigated by the fact that students are working in groups. It also gives them some freedom in the sense that there may be various questions which can be answered by what you said. Here's how you play:.
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Latin for Everyone: It's been a while - using one activity for many things
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Monday, January 12, 2015. It's been a while - using one activity for many things. For those of us teaching multiple levels, it can feel like a struggle to come up with distinct lesson plans for each level. That isn't always necessary, though - many activities can be adapted to whatever level you want, up to and including literature. It just has to be embedded, and then you can keep the passages you're reading consistent throughout levels, scaffolding up appropriately with each level. We had a this and th...
