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Readalong week 2
Still not reading yet - it'll probably be another week or two, we're still in the thematic set up (plus also catching up from february)...
Arianne Potter
Aug 30, 20206 min read
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A read along! The beginning.
I've never done a readalong before! I've also never Officially Taught a novella before. (quam horrificum!) I've read them with my class...
Arianne Potter
Aug 30, 20206 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20202 min read
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Scene Charades
Warning: some prep (though not a huge amount) involved. I love charades. It's great for discrete vocab rehearsal, it's funny, and it gets...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20203 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20201 min read
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Fishbowl/Socratic Discussions in a FL Class
Socratic seminars have become a big thing in English classes, and they go a long way towards fostering discussion in a structured way....
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20203 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Running in Circles
Running in Circles I'm not sure how I haven't shared this activity before (or maybe I have and just can't find the post!). This is a...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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A Rereading Game
Martina Bex created this gorgeous game called es posibile. I did (almost) nothing but translate it into Latin, beginning with fierine...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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O Captain, My Captain
I got this idea from a department meeting and then tweaked it a little. Because we're talking about monsters in Latin I, we spent...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Blind Retell
This activity is based loosely on Betsy Paskvan's awesome Blind Retell. I like to do this after a Movie Talk because it provides an image...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Cobbled Sentences
This is an activity I love to do, but it's important to be very careful about how we do it lest it either a. make so little sense as to...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Read and Draw
This is a summarization technique that I use with some regularity to great effect. I am fortunate to own ten giant white boards (which...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Imperfect and Perfect Tenses
For the last several years, I've been using a translation technique to teach the imperfect and perfect tenses. Because they have...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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