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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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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,...

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...

May 28, 202010 min read

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Musical Chairs

No one is too old for musical chairs. My Latin I students have recently acquired what feels to them (and probably is) like a huge amount...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Data Tracker

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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Preferred Activity Time (PAT)

This is something Bryce Hedstrom has talked about in great detail, and it actually comes from Fred Jones' book Tools for Teaching, which...

May 28, 20203 min read

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Summaries and Lies

My upper levels have been learning about magic recently. I love teaching with video clips, since (I'm referencing the delightful and...

May 28, 20202 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...

May 28, 20201 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...

May 28, 20203 min read

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Spin the Bottle

There is no kissing in this game. :) Instead, its purpose is to review a story your students have read and know well. You'll need a cheap...

May 28, 20201 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...

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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Go Fish

Almost every kid I've ever met can play Go Fish (I say almost because it turns out I have one student who's never played, so there goes...

May 28, 20203 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...

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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Popplet and Mind Mapping

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....

May 28, 20202 min read

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Concentration 64

I have several students who spend their lunchtimes in my room, and I like to watch them and see what games they play, either verbally or...

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...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Team Windows/Teacher Break

I needed a break today. I shouldn't have, because I wasn't at school yesterday, but for whatever reason, teaching the day after you've...

May 28, 20202 min read

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To The Middle - a Game

This is a group-work game that requires listening and comprehension, but little to no output from the kids. You can give them a text to...

May 28, 20203 min read

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CI Games

I know this is something I've mentioned before, but games seem so important. Kids love to play them, they're low-stress for us, and they...

May 28, 20204 min read

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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