Monday, October 22nd, Day 50
- Calendar Talk/Quid Novi
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Read and Discuss/Instant Replay/Read and Draw: Monstrum in Armario – Alternate Endings
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Read and Discuss: “Quintus et Nox Horrifica”
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Quick Quiz – Verum an Falsum? (based on “Quintus et Nox Horrifica”)
Prep Time: 0 minutes
Tuesday, October 23th, Day 51
- Calendar Talk/Quid Novi?
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Read/Discuss/Reader’s Theater (Quintus et Nox Horrifica – Ch. 3)
Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Discipulus Illustris – Student Interview
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Quick Quiz (Discipulus Illustris)
Prep Time: 0 minutes
Total Prep Time: 10 minutes
Wednesday, October 24th, Day 52
- Calendar Talk/Quid Novi?
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Read/Discuss/Reader’s Theater (Quintus et Nox Horrifica – Ch. 4)
Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Dictatio and Draw
Students take the diction first, then draw a picture to accompany the dictation. Six sentences total. After the first three sentences and pictures, I let the student correct their spelling.
Prep Time: 0 minutes
Thursday, October 25th – Day 53
- Calendar Talk/Quid Novi?
Prep Time: 0 minutes
NB: I was out on Wednesday (sick with something I picked up from the students), which ended up being great, because we could talk about what happened on Tuesday AND on Wednesday.
- Movie Talk – “Wildebeests”
Prep Time: 0 minutes
- Write and Discuss – the plot of the Movie Talk
Prep Time: 0 minutes
Friday, October 26th – Day 54
- Calendar Talk/ Quid novi?
- Ridiculum (“Wildebest” Recap)
- Magici Numeri – Translation Game
My version of the “Sex” game (and Lance Piantaggini’s “Septem”). The variation is that “six” isn’t always the number that people are trying to roll. Changing up the number seems to keep the game fresh for the students. This is a bit more labor- and resource-intensive than other activities that I did this week, but worth it. I only play this game once or twice a semester to keep it fresh. Some classes would continue to play the entire class period—and beyond if I let them.
Prep Time: 20 minutes (plus printing and collating)
Comprehensible Classics 