Well, we're back at --- translating this ancient, dead language -- one noun and verb at a time. We started the class with a "Scavenger Hunt," collecting nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases from one another. Learning languages is a challenging and puzzling activity. Sometimes it seems that you lose all that you learned, and at other times it all comes back with amazing clarity.
This week we focused primarily on review. As with many academic pursuits, students sometimes don't know what they don't know until they make mistakes or realize that they are completely clueless. With that in mind, we went back to the first chapter to review and recall everything we could remember about endings, cases, conjugations, gender, declensions, etc. Next week, we will continue with the chapters and stories about the family of Cornelius.
We discussed a few helpful ideas for going forward with Latin. A few ideas that seemed to be good were to 1) give students the answer keys for the Ecce Romani book exercises and 2) have some online opportunities to practice with vocabulary, etc. and 3) continue the beginning of class fun activities because they help some of the Latin to "sink in." One problem that we had, since we only meet once a week, is that the turnaround for correcting assignments made it difficult to know when certain areas were causing problems. With the answer key, students can correct their weekly work before bringing it to class and be ready to ask question for work they didn't understand.
I will have a syllabus for next week. I was waiting for some input from the students before putting it together. I now have a better idea about what will work.
Assignment for Next Week:
-- 25 flash cards (begin with chapter 12 and work forward to chapter 1)
This week's blogs
Class Notes
I'm glad to be back with this great group of students!
Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Prichard
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