I don't know if you've seen tag-yourself memes on facebook. In general they're pretty hilarious.
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So we've done a LOT of story-telling this year at every level - in Latin I our own characters, in Latin III a lot of texts with some pretty special characters. To review the characters, we did tag-yourself memes.
The Latin IIIs had been reading Apuleius and Valerius Maximus, so we selected characters from there - Aristomenes, Socrates, the ianitor, the innkeeper from Valerius Maximus, Meroe, and the sponge. In Latin I, we used characters we'd created (Idon'tknow, an astrocarnifex, a pet hippopotamus, Jasmine, the tabernaria, etc).
The kids, in pairs, wrote three to four descriptions of each character while I walked around and made corrections, etc.
Then they set their boards around the room, and kids walked around, read other people's board, and initialed any descriptions they felt like described them.
Then I took up a few boards, read an individual description, picked someone who'd tagged themselves. We looked at that person, and voted on whether we thought each of the descriptive lines for that character described that student. For example:
the ianitor is sleepy, stubborn, and likes to argue. John has tagged himself. Raise your hand if you think John is sleepy. John, are you sleepy? Are you sleeping now?
And then having done that, we determined whether or not we felt "John" had tagged himself correctly.
It took an entire period, which surprised me - I didn't expect it to take that long, but it was universally funny and enjoyable.
Some examples!
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