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hodie est dies Martis Gravis = Mardi Gras.
I wasn't thinking about that as I planned for today. I was thinking mainly about Stage 14 in CLC, that conjugating volo was going to be on the vocab quiz tomorrow, that we had begun discussing noun adjective agreement and such topics as Case Number & Gender. And then a student walked in wearing beads. And then I remembered I had a bag of mardi gras beads in my cupboard that I had purchased last year for an event that were never used.
So I grabbed a big handful and put them on. Then after students started on the warm-up and I was circulating around the room handing back quizzes, some started to ask in English if they could have the beads. :-) teachable moment.
ME: visne monile habere?
And eventually the students caught on and one by one. Then it went something like this.
MAGISTRA: visne monile habere?
DISCIPULUS: volo monile habere.
MAGISTRA: visne habere monile purpureum? aut caeruleum? aut viride? aut argenteum? aut aureum? aut rubrum?
DISCIPULUS: volo habere monile purpureum ET argenteum! (etc)
MAGISTRA: omnes! repetite: monile purpureum! monile argenteum!
After playing with that and with vultisne/volumus, we practiced conjugating volo, finished going over the warm-up, headed into vocab drill, and read Domitilla cubiculum parat I.
First period was the most fun.
I wasn't thinking about that as I planned for today. I was thinking mainly about Stage 14 in CLC, that conjugating volo was going to be on the vocab quiz tomorrow, that we had begun discussing noun adjective agreement and such topics as Case Number & Gender. And then a student walked in wearing beads. And then I remembered I had a bag of mardi gras beads in my cupboard that I had purchased last year for an event that were never used.
So I grabbed a big handful and put them on. Then after students started on the warm-up and I was circulating around the room handing back quizzes, some started to ask in English if they could have the beads. :-) teachable moment.
ME: visne monile habere?
And eventually the students caught on and one by one. Then it went something like this.
MAGISTRA: visne monile habere?
DISCIPULUS: volo monile habere.
MAGISTRA: visne habere monile purpureum? aut caeruleum? aut viride? aut argenteum? aut aureum? aut rubrum?
DISCIPULUS: volo habere monile purpureum ET argenteum! (etc)
MAGISTRA: omnes! repetite: monile purpureum! monile argenteum!
After playing with that and with vultisne/volumus, we practiced conjugating volo, finished going over the warm-up, headed into vocab drill, and read Domitilla cubiculum parat I.
First period was the most fun.
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