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THE COMPREHENSIBILIBUDDY

WELCOME TO THE COMPREHENSIBILI-BUDDY

Naturally Curious

Welcome to The Comprehensibili-buddy, a buddy on your journey to comprehensibly and compellingly teach, learn, and ultimately grow in your language exploration. I'm Arianne Belzer-Carroll, a high school Latin teacher and novella writer in Georgia. I'm excited you're along for the ride. Contact me below with questions or requests, scroll down for the blog/teaching posts, or check out other pages for snippets of novellas, free materials, the web series Bene Narras, and digital licenses of my books.

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Aug 28, 20203 min read

Robots and Humans

My fourth period has somewhat facetious started referring to themselves as team robot and team human. Groups (and games!) are hard these...

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Jul 19, 20203 min read

Some Things I Did During Shutdown That I Liked

Minute to win it games. You can still do them online. a. I videotaped myself looking like an idiot - that is, attempting some minute to...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

More Charades: Silent Sentence Acting

I love this. I've done it at every level, the sentences are sometimes a mess, the whole thing is hilarious, and it helps them with the...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

The Importance of Discretion. Also, an Activity on Preferences!

My ones are learning about family. In the course of learning about family every year, I sit down and have a conversation with my kiddos....

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

Vocab Review, Silly Questions, and a Die

Be warned - this is high output, but you could probably modify it down if you wanted them to be producing less unscaffolded language. I...

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Jul 19, 20201 min read

Four Things You Can Do With a Bell

I have a small metal bell. It was given to me my first year of teaching by our then-county foreign language coordinator, and it's one of...

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Jul 19, 20202 min read

Practicing Indirect Statement

Indirect statements can be tough for the kids to get a hang of - it requires verb shifts and an interesting understanding of time...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Alea iacta est - vocab review

This is an extremely simple, pretty low-prep vocab review game that happens in pairs or groups. It can take five minutes or an hour, and...

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May 28, 20202 min read

A variation on read-and-draw with a gallery walk

My kids got a new text this week. I wanted them to read and visualize it together, as well as get in a few reps, and both have the...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Auto-audio-dictation (a variation on a running dictation)

This year I have a high-flying Latin III student in a very, very behind Latin II class. If I thought I was going to be able to ask them...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Angeli et Diaboli

I got this years ago from a workshop with Jason Fritze. It's the Peruvian (?! Jason, correct me!) version of tag, I think. I own several...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Uses For Small White Boards

Here are a collection of posts I've made on what to do with small white boards if you have them, plus a little extra! 1. Musical chairs:...

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May 28, 20204 min read

iPads!

My colleague Natalie and I came into the windfall of an iPad when my grandmother decided to update hers. She was going to get rid of it,...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Uses For OWATS

OWATs - or One Word at a Time stories - are the brainchild of Bob Patrick. Essentially, their purpose is to allow students to be creative...

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May 28, 20202 min read

QR Scavenger Hunt

I read the excellent Keith Toda's version of this and was inspired to try my own. Essentially, you create QR codes with information and...

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Oh, no! Poor Joe!

May 28, 20202 min read

Oh, no! Poor Joe!

There's a great scene in the movie Dave (Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, if you've never seen it, there are your weekend plans; you're...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Haiku

I love haiku. I love haiku because I had an RA in college who, if you locked yourself out and required her keys, would make you write a...

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Popplet and Mind Mapping

May 28, 20202 min read

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....

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May 28, 20202 min read

One Activity, Lots of Levels

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...

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May 28, 20203 min read

To The Middle - a Game

This is a group-work game that requires listening and comprehension, but little to no output from the kids. You can give them a text to...

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Arianne Belzer-Carroll

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