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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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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...

Aug 28, 20203 min read

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Eh, cutesy tech things you can do if you want to

Eh, cutesy tech things you can do if you want to

So I'm allowed to have one announcement on the homepage of my school site for kids to access. One. Ever. And that one announcement needs...

Jul 30, 20202 min read

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Real communication in a constructed environment

Last fall, I borrowed the cart of butcher paper from the library. Kids were working on their performance final, which was "draw something...

Jul 24, 20202 min read

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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...

Jul 19, 20203 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...

Jul 19, 20202 min read

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Spinners and Speaking

Wheelofnames.com is one of my favorite websites. You can customize what items are on the wheel (and the colors, if that's your jam. it is...

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...

Jul 19, 20203 min read

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The Blessing of Useless Competition

This is something the great Justin Slocum Bailey taught me: if kids can compete, and if it can be hilarious, that's a beautiful classroom...

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...

Jul 19, 20201 min read

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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...

Jul 19, 20202 min read

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Story-Mapping and Comprehension

Story- and character-mapping are techniques I use a lot with my students. We've done it to track how a Roman play works and what...

Jul 19, 20202 min read

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A FLAG Presentation!

I presented at FLAG this year on assessment and how to assess beyond the standard multiple choice format. We talked about why we should...

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....

Jul 19, 20203 min read

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I presented at SCOLT!

If you didn't get a chance to come by, here are my presentation materials. the PowerPoint I showed the handout that goes with it

Jul 19, 20201 min read

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Tag Yourself Memes

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...

Jul 19, 20201 min read

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Flexible Seating!

This is my fifth year deskless! I distinctly remember myself, a colleague, and a student carrying desks out of my room to a trailer. We...

May 28, 20204 min read

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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:...

May 28, 20202 min read

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On Fidget Tools

I have a small basket of fidget tools - a couple of cubes with various sides (one that clicks, one that rolls, etc), some tubes with...

May 28, 20203 min read

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Using Language Classes To Teach Other Ideas

Every year for the last six years, I've sat down with my twos and threes and asked what they want to study curricularly the following...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Designing A Unit Around Culture

Last summer, a friend of mine said something that really stuck with me. He told me that language is culture, and that we have to examine...

May 28, 20206 min read

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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