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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20204 min read
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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,...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 202010 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 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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Rereading Activities
In reading and re-reading stories, I'm constantly looking for ways for students to employ their creativity along with their understanding...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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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....
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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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...
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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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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