MONDAY, October 15th, Day 45
- Card Talk – Two Truths/Lie
TOPIC: quid tu egisti hoc biduo?
I prepared this PowerPoint presentation in order to give the students the support they needed to compose some basic sentences about themselves and their activities. I just used this to discuss the student’s weekends and interests–we didn’t play “Tria Vera et Unum Falsum” this week.
Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Story – Quintus Review (Chapters 1 and 2)
Read and Discuss followed by “Ridiculum” game (also known as “Stultus”)
with Brain Break Follow-up
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Write and Discuss (Last 5-7 minutes)
Review of the Quintus Story (focus on the new words, the ones glossed on the board)
Prep Time: 0 minutes
Total Prep Time: 25 minutes
TUESDAY, October 16th, Day 46
- Calendar Talk
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Card Talk – Read and Discuss – Responses
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Quintus – Read and Discuss/Ridiculum/Dice Game
Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Discipulus Illustris: Student Interview & Quiz
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Write and Discuss (Time Permitting)
Prep Time: 0 minutes
WEDNESDAY, October 17th, Day 47
- Calendar Talk (5 minutes)
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Monstrum in Armario – Picture Talk (10 minutes)
I made this PowerPoint comprised of screen caps of the film.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
- MovieTalk/ Watch and Discuss (20 minutes) – using the “El Monstuo in Armario” movie
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Write and Discuss – Summarize Movie in 3 sentences
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Alternate Ending/Picturae
I had the students draw a possible alternate ending for the movie. We are going to discuss these endings in class on Friday.
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Quick Quiz (V an F) – 7 minutes
Prep Time: 0 minutes
Total Prep Time: 15 minutes
Reflection: The “El Monstruo del armario” video is actually perfect to accompany Lance Piantaggini’s excellent “Quintus et Nox Horrifica.” I can read it with my students after they have only had a couple months of Latin, just in time for Halloween. A lot of the plot of the movie is similar to the novella, so I was able to “preview” some of the novella’s new or less familiar vocabulary with the students. Below is the script that I wrote for “Monstrum in Armario” (in Latin).
THURSDAY, October 18th, Day 48
- Calendar Talk/Quid Novi?
Prep Time: 0 minutes
2. Read and Draw (Listening Assessment) – based on the “Monstrum in Armario” alternate endings.
Prep Time: 0 minutes
Total Prep Time: 0 minutes
Reflection: I had more planned than this, but these two activities ended up taking the entire class period. We ended up having some fun with the Listen and Draw activity, as I took student suggestions for details to add to everyone’s pictures, or slightly different directions to take the ends that we had created the day before. It was a good lesson in knowing when to ditch the plan and go with the direction that the class is pushing you.
FRIDAY, October 19th, Day 49
- Calendar Talk/Quid Novi?
Prep Time: 0 minutes
2. Alternate Endings (using the pictures that students drew after the Movie Talk on Wednesday)
Prep Time: 10 minutes
3. Write and Discuss (based on the class-chosen favorite picture from the Picture Talk)
Prep Time: 0 minutes
4. Quizlet Live
Prep Time: 10-15 minutes
5. Choral Translation/Ridiculum (Monstrum in Armario text)
Prep Time: 0 minutes
6. Timed Write
5 minutes
Prep Time: 0 minutes
Total Prep Time: 20-25 minutes
Comprehensible Classics 