Preview: Where to purchase: It is available through Amazon if you simply must have it quickly, or use your Prime shipping. An alternative is to purchase the book from my Createspace store—Amazon doesn’t take a big bite of the royalties that way. But it’s up to you. What is it, exactly? This is a novel, written …
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Self-motivated Summer Reading? Like many language teachers, I want my students to read in L2 on their own. During the school year, I have FVR (Free Voluntary Reading) time on a regular basis for my more advanced students, and with my less experienced students, there are story-listening activities, MovieTalks, and collaborative story telling activities galore. …
If I had to single out one thing that I added to my classroom this year that made the biggest difference, I would have to say: word walls. My classroom currently has three, and I’m looking to expand to five or six soon. Right now, the three word walls in my classroom are: 1.) the …
This is yet another variation on on Bryce Headstrom's La Persona Especial. It combines some of the goofy fun of the "Headbandz" game as a hook for student interest. Also, since I teach at a private school with small classes, student interviews only get me so far. So, first, using Sticky Notes (I know, high …
I've been attending graduate school during the past few summers. Two summers ago, I had a conversation with a professor about the current "spoken Latin" movement among Latin teachers and enthusiasts. This professor was actually from Europe, and his question was simple: Why would anyone WANT to speak Latin. What was the point? We gleefully swapped anecdotes …
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Comprehensible Classics 