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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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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...
Arianne Potter
Jul 19, 20202 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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A variation on read-and-draw with a gallery walk
My kids got a new text this week. I wanted them to read and visualize it together, as well as get in a few reps, and both have the...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Uses For OWATS
OWATs - or One Word at a Time stories - are the brainchild of Bob Patrick. Essentially, their purpose is to allow students to be creative...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20203 min read
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Building on Writing
I like to do a short writing activity where I pick a topic we've been working with and spend all week writing about it. On day one, the...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20201 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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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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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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Dear Abby
One of my classes and I have been spending time on you should, also known as jussive subjunctives. They've been proposing things for each...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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