teaching with compelling ci

2 min read 2022-06-02 05:21:05

Pre-, Dum-, and Post-Reading Cycles

In a Latin Best Practices Facebook group discussion months back, I shared that I wasn’t sure I do any pre- or post-reading. I just have a bunch

3 min read 2022-05-19 05:32:14

It dawned on me that I have zero management issues right now. Zero. Yeah, it feels like the Twilight Zone. In fact, the only classroom management

2 min read 2022-05-16 04:09:08

I asked the iFLT/NTPRS/CI Teaching Facebook group for ideas on how to get one massive story with every student starring in it. I was able to get a

2 min read 2022-05-10 05:50:35

Olianna learns more about herself and her family in this psychological thriller continuation of “Olianna et obiectum magicum.” We begin at a

8 min read 2022-05-02 05:45:00

This post includes practical ideas I got from Florencia Henshaw’s and Maris Hawkins’ theory-to-practice SLA (second language acquisition) book.

2 min read 2022-04-28 07:18:03

The communicative purpose of this game is entertainment and winning, although a quick follow-up connection prompt or two gets students thinking about

3 min read 2022-04-11 05:46:25

My students have had a decent time playing our RPG lite “The Game” series, so I went looking for something else with more interaction and

4 min read 2022-04-04 05:26:28

Eric Herman released memos 45 and 46 mid-March, and wow do they take “authentic texts”…to task! I’m not gonna post a bunch of juicy quotes

2 min read 2022-03-31 05:48:11

Someone online asked about routines last week or so, and I chimed in with my stock take about my own experience with things getting old, etc. and how

3 min read 2022-03-28 05:47:18

Next winter at SCS (Society for Classical Studies) 2023, there will be a panel on what it means to teach students to read Latin. Reading Latin. It

3 min read 2022-03-25 05:09:27

It’s absurd, really. After nearly a decade as a professional second language educator (i.e., employed AND trained as one, because those don’t

2 min read 2022-03-24 05:23:51

Teaching Latin poems without giving much thought to their metrical structure is a bit like teaching Haikus in paragraph form. Haikus are short and

2 min read 2022-03-21 05:54:36

I took this idea from Kelly Gallagher, the History teacher who wrote the “readicide” book. At some point, he started having kids read current

1 min read 2022-03-17 07:00:50

I usually just read new novellas with students, cold-open. That is, besides reading the back cover description and having a quick discussion to

3 min read 2022-03-14 07:08:58

I wanted to write a short text using the most frequent words students have read so far this whole year. Although I might have been able to predict