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So, the next day we went over the poem again, and then I handed out a sheet from an ACL booklet on Pompeian graffiti that has the "cursive" alphabet and gave them a choice of colored paper (for the fun of it, admittedly) and told them to rewrite the poem but to make at least 2 changes. I wisely asked them to UNDERLINE the changed words, because, hey, reading Roman cursive is slow going!!
I'm grading them now. Some are really funny. Instead of cenam, I've gotten pullum, and instead of sine candida puella, I've had sine toroso puero (a brawny boy!) and even sine multis ludis! (can't have fun without games); instead of cenabis I've had dormies!
There've been plenty of mistakes, so I'm going to have them do rewrites for a better grade.
But one of my students said that she'd virtually memorized the poem in Latin. YES YES YES. THAT's the point. I asked my niece, who was taking AP Catullus/Ovid some years back about a particular poem, and she rattled it off in ENGLISH. She had gone over the ENGLISH so many times.... Like so many APstudents, because they aren't taught differently in so many cases, they memorized the English of the corpus and just rely on recognizing it in Latin. (Well, she probably could read Latin well enough too, frankly.)
Me... I want them to have read a poem so many times and played with it and manipulated it that it's memorized or at least so familiar that they understand every aspect of the LATIN.
I've also made a quia CLOZE exercise of the poem.... (And part of me is thinking what I really need next is to make Mad Libs out of poems like these.) Here's the cloze: http://www.quia.com/cz/95037.html . If you get something wrong, there is a small line of feedback at the top of the box. FYI
I'm grading them now. Some are really funny. Instead of cenam, I've gotten pullum, and instead of sine candida puella, I've had sine toroso puero (a brawny boy!) and even sine multis ludis! (can't have fun without games); instead of cenabis I've had dormies!
There've been plenty of mistakes, so I'm going to have them do rewrites for a better grade.
But one of my students said that she'd virtually memorized the poem in Latin. YES YES YES. THAT's the point. I asked my niece, who was taking AP Catullus/Ovid some years back about a particular poem, and she rattled it off in ENGLISH. She had gone over the ENGLISH so many times.... Like so many APstudents, because they aren't taught differently in so many cases, they memorized the English of the corpus and just rely on recognizing it in Latin. (Well, she probably could read Latin well enough too, frankly.)
Me... I want them to have read a poem so many times and played with it and manipulated it that it's memorized or at least so familiar that they understand every aspect of the LATIN.
I've also made a quia CLOZE exercise of the poem.... (And part of me is thinking what I really need next is to make Mad Libs out of poems like these.) Here's the cloze: http://www.quia.com/cz/95037.html . If you get something wrong, there is a small line of feedback at the top of the box. FYI
