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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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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, 20203 min read

How I Formulate a Unit

It's all well and good to know that you have a topical unit, but then you think about teaching on Monday and realize that you have no...

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May 28, 20204 min read

A Unit In My Classroom, part 3

The next week of magic class looked like this: Day 1 We re-watched each of the clips, and I began to use the vocabulary in the types of...

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May 28, 20203 min read

A Unit In My Classroom, part 2

All the stuff that we more or less pulled off in five days - and it did actually take a little longer than that, because on Friday,...

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May 28, 202010 min read

What a Unit Looks Like In My Classroom, part 1

I've been asked to post some information about a Latin III/IV unit I'm doing right now, so here's what it looks like: Last May, I asked...

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Data Tracker

May 28, 20202 min read

Data Tracker

My school this year decided they wanted us a teachers to be keeping track of data that represents student learning. That's not always the...

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May 28, 20203 min read

Visualizing Stories

If I had a superpower, it would be this: I'd love to be able to hold out my hand and just project at will, in the air, images or videos...

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May 28, 20203 min read

A Queen of Monsters, or, on the importance of phrases

I have a small confession, which is that I once forgot that 88 in Latin is not expressed as eighty-eight but rather as two-from-ninety...

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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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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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May 28, 20202 min read

Rereading Activities

In reading and re-reading stories, I'm constantly looking for ways for students to employ their creativity along with their understanding...

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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, 20207 min read

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...

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May 28, 20202 min read

Learning Phrases

The more locutions the kids hear over and over and have access to, the more locutions and idioms and so forth they start to add to their...

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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