Had I simply given them a plain sheet of paper and asked them to quietly write out the answers to the same questions in a non-puzzle format, I guarantee that I would have met with a barrage of moans and rolled eyes.
What are assessments for, and how do they best achieve their purpose?
Speaking Latin In one sense, the idea is as crazy as it sounds. The Latin tongue can no longer lay claim to a nation of
I have not had students memorize chapter vocabulary in a long time, not because I don’t think vocabulary is important, but because I think there is a more interesting, engaging, and robust method for beefing up the student vocab repository which I would like to share with you in this post.
There are numerous ways to fence with monotony, but one I have found to my liking and suited to my style as a teacher is a regular “Culture Day.”
I knew the declensions and the conjugations. Most of Henle’s and Lingua Latina’s vocabulary was familiar to me. I felt pretty confident about the sequence of tenses and irregular verbs. I had read through all of Familia Romana a number of times and even the first half of Roma Aeterna a few times. I had more knowledge than the eighth graders with whose care I had been charged, and I didn’t suspect that could be insufficient.
I meticulously enumerated every item of the syllabus while attempting to maintain an air of stern authority. . . This day, however, would be the spark that would ignite the dumpster fire that was my first year of teaching.
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