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Arianne Potter
Aug 30, 20206 min read
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)...
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Arianne Potter
Aug 30, 20206 min read
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...
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Arianne Potter
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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Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20203 min read
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...
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Arianne Potter
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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Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20203 min read
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....
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Arianne Potter
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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Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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...
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Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
A Rereading Game
Martina Bex created this gorgeous game called es posibile. I did (almost) nothing but translate it into Latin, beginning with fierine...
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Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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...
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Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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...
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Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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...
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Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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...
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Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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...
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