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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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Tag Yourself Memes
I don't know if you've seen tag-yourself memes on facebook. In general they're pretty hilarious. Check it out: So we've done a LOT of...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20201 min read
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(Pre-)reading Without Words
Many of us use gestures or hand signs of some variety to associate with vocabulary words. I've been thinking a lot recently about the...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20202 min read
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You and I
One of the things my kids struggle with is you and I, particularly in the perfect tense. This year I've decided to spend a lot of time on...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Past Tense Again
I generally hold off on the past tense until the second year to give the kids some real time to get comfortable with the present. I use...
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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Go Fish
Almost every kid I've ever met can play Go Fish (I say almost because it turns out I have one student who's never played, so there goes...
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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A quick and dirty guide to telling a story
Story-telling was one of the hardest things for me to start to get good at. I spent my first two years shoving twenty-four words into a...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20207 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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Summarization
I was at an immersion program this summer, and I was playing an ongoing game with a good friend of mine from Australia. One of us would...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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I don't have a catchy name for this game at all
I do not have a catchy name for this. If you have one, tell me. You can really use this for whatever you want, but I like to use it for...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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What's CI?
It occurs to me that I forgot to gloss this, and that's silly. CI is Comprehensible Input. It is the theory of presenting understandable,...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Embedded Stories
There have so often been stories I wanted my students to read that were simply above their heads. The most recent example is Catullus'...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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(Sometimes) Silent Sustained Reading
It's hard to do free voluntary reading in a classroom because it can't really be voluntary. You're telling them to read. And it can only...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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