Lesson Plans MONDAY – Day 4 Reading (Card Talk Review) Reading Activity: Quis diceret? Planning Time: 10 minutes (typing up last week’s Write and Discuss review of Card Talk to create the reading) Card Talk – Pars II Targets: placet: is pleasing to; likes, ludit: plays Planning Time: 0 minutes TPR Targets: currit (runs), …
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One Word Images (OWI)–In Latin
A beginning One Word Image (OWI) Question Sequence for the first week (or so) of Latin. I’ve really enjoyed reading both A Natural Approach to Stories and A Natural Approach to the Year by Tina Hargaden and Ben Slavic, and I have attempted to incorporate this particular “non-targeted comprehensible input” approach in my communication-focused Latin …
Marcus Aurelius on Error Correction
As I was reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations today, I noticed a passage that reminded me of one of the perennial debates among language educators: how should we correct our students’ language errors, if at all? I admit that I did not expect Emperor Marcus to weigh in on the issue, but his words are worth …
Week 1 – Days 2 and 3 – Latin III/IV
THURSDAY, AUG. 9 Calendar Talk (10 minutes) Prep Time: 5 minutes (finding a blank calendar) OWI (One Word Image) with student artist (35 minutes) Prep Time: 0 minutes Picture Talk (looking at and discussing the student artwork) Prep Time: 0 minutes (the student does the drawing) Total prep time: 5 minutes Reflection: Calendar Talk …
Week 1 – Day 2 and 3
Latin I THURSDAY Remind students about classroom procedures (5 minutes) Card Talk (25 minutes) Prep Time: 0 minutes target vocabulary: habet: has, vult: wants TPR (20 minutes) Prep Time: 10 minutes (creating a list of verbs that I wanted to target) Target vocabulary: surgit: stands up, considit: sets down, ambulat: walks Total prep time: 10 …
A Year In F7 – Week 1, Day 1
One day down! The first week is a bit of a slow start with two days of student orientation—so no Latin Monday and Tuesday. The first real class (Wednesday) was mostly taken up with boring procedural/syllabus stuff. I did assign them a password (a simple “salve!”), which I will begin using tomorrow. I also made …
Week 0 – Classroom Setup
This post will be brief and mostly in pictures. My room is set up and ready to go. My classroom is “deskless” (since January 2017), and I just got some brand new chairs that have much better back support. Each of the rows have colored felt on the bottom (to prevent scuffing the floor). Each …
An Experiment, Week O
It’s that time of year again. Here in Georgia school begins next week. After hours of toil my classroom is all set up and ready to go. This year my Latin program has expanded to the point that last April we hired a second Latin teacher. In the process of showing the new teacher the …
Rethinking Culture
This coming year I’m rethinking how I teach Roman culture. Next year I’m planning to teach middle school Latin (a one semester class) with no “cultural” units. I’m also planning on teaching first semester Latin I (maybe much of the second semester as well) with no explicit cultural/historical component. My thinking may change on this …
Write & Discuss – “Guess the Ending”
A no-prep, high-input, highly-comprehensible, student-centered activity to follow-up any story. This is an activity that I stumbled upon towards the end of second semester Latin I, when motivation (teacher and student) was low, the sun was shining outside, and classroom routines were beginning to get stale. Seeking inspiration, I decided to shift gears and begin a MovieTalk …
Comprehensible Classics 