QUIA.COM, split levels, other things

[ginlindzey]

I have been madly making quia.com stuff for my students in 6th period--Latin 2, Latin 3, and pseudo AP. (I can't offer real AP.) We are going to a computer lab today and I wanted to make sure that everyone has something.

If I had time...if I just had time to make more, I think I could do some things to really help my new AP student. I have an aide making vocabulary drills for him, which I think will really help with the vocab issues, and I'm trying to focus on making in context stuff. I made one thing for just 10 lines today, took 1.5 hours to do so, and I'm thinking that I really canNOT do this for ALL the lines. Must decide what to do.

Take a look if you like:
Latin 2: www.quia.com/pages/drippinglatin2.html
Latin 3: www.quia.com/pages/drippinglatin3.html
Latin 4: www.quia.com/pages/drippinglatin4.html

Quia is so worth the $50 a year. Oh, what's not listed are the massive pages I have for CLC Unit 1 and Unit 2:
Latin 1a: www.quia.com/pages/drippinglatin1a.html
Latin 1b: www.quia.com/pages/drippinglatin1b.html

I'm looking forward to feedback from the AP student today. He was pleased with just the vocab drills yesterday.

I've got all the QUIA stuff made, but it occurs to me that for the 2's and 3's that I need to make actually WRITTEN quizzes today for tomorrow.

What a week.

Having benchmark testing in English has helped, but I just found out yesterday that *I* get to grade all their short-answer essays--3 per student, 100 students.

Time to talk to the middle school principle about having some Latin over there next year.

I just wish I had more prep time to sort out all my issues with this split level class. Otherwise, life is good.

Comments

[filialucis]

Wow -- I just looked at the Quia stuff for your 4th year student, and it looks really good!

I've been meaning to say this, but somehow I never get round to it: I am so glad for you that you found this new job with motivated students. A teacher of your dedication is a rare beast, and you deserve to be able to work with kids you can actually make some appreciable progress with!

[ginlindzey.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I am happy to be out here but overwhelmed by the English stuff. Such is life. Just more motivation to make certain that I do NOT have English next year! HAHAHAHAHA!

As for the quia, I want to have more like the QUIZ, which is treating the words in context, and making the student note the details.

I figure if I can teach this student more about reading in word order, and internalizing the Latin, he'll do better on the exam. This will be a test for me too--my first AP. MUST do well by him!!!

RE: AP Ovid

[(Anonymous)]

Hi. Welcome to my world. I've been teaching AP for about 15 years, most of them Vergil. I switched to the Catullus/Ovid curriculum a few years ago for several reasons, one of which was split-classes and semi-independent students. (That means an AP student in a Latin I course. I can touch base, but not really teach.)

This year I have my AP class (2) with my Latin III class (4) and a Latin II student. (There are lots more Latin II students in my schedule, not to mention Latin I & Spanish I.)

Of course I also have an AP student in a Latin I class, and in that same class I also have 3 Latin II students and a Latin III student. I refer to that as my "one-room schoolhouse". I'd better be careful though, I also teach Spanish. (Would "the powers that be" actually add a Spanish student to that? Probably not, since I've OK'd the students going into that class.)

The only way that this works is because at Level II and up I do less and less "teacher in front of the room" activities. Each student is working independently or with a small group. Each student's brain is working on his/her assignment (hopefully); my brain has to keep all four levels of assignments going on at the same time. It's exhausting, but it works. If I didn't allow this mixing, quite a few of my students would miss out on Latin due to the horrible scheduling this year(and several other years). Ya gotta do what ya gotta do, I guess.

Anyway, would you like me to send you "my" materials for AP Catullus/Ovid? I say "my" because I have gleaned some of them from other teachers.

Sandy

Re: AP Ovid

[ginlindzey.livejournal.com]

Yes!! I'd happily take your material, etc.

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