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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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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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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a very quick post about duck duck goose
We started out with anas anas anser. By the end of the game, in various classes, we had anus anus ananas, anas anas ananas, and my...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20201 min read
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QR Scavenger Hunt
I read the excellent Keith Toda's version of this and was inspired to try my own. Essentially, you create QR codes with information and...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20202 min read
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Rereading Pictionary
The kids love pictionary, and I like finding excuses to get them to read and reread without making it too obvious that that's what I'm...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20201 min read
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A Rereading Game
Martina Bex created this gorgeous game called es posibile. I did (almost) nothing but translate it into Latin, beginning with fierine...
Arianne Potter
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...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20206 min read
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Collective Interview
I began with an idea from Martina Bex that can be found here. A collective interview is a set of questions given to a group that is asked...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 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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Why I Don't Warn Students About Tests
Last year, I decided to stop giving my students warnings about when they were going to be tested, and I'm just giving assessements...
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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Head Shoulders Knees Toes
I love doing assessments wherein the assessment is itself a form of input. We've been learning about body parts, among other things, in...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20201 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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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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Tuesdays In Upper Level Latin
Every Tuesday in Latin III/IV, I like to find absurd pictures that relate to whatever we're talking about - a kid going crazy during a...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20201 min read
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Mettius Fufetius
Mettius Fufetius is a re-do of the Spanish game Pancho Comancho. In Pancho Comancho, five or so students are called to the front of the...
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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Three Snaps
Today I was taught a game by a student. He calls it three snaps. I don't know that I would do this with my first years (at least not...
Arianne Potter
May 28, 20201 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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