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Right.  As if I'm not insane enough already.

My Assistant Principal (whom I like--I *like* my administration and know that I'm lucky) wants me to allow pre-AP designations in Latin 1 and 2.  I already have 4 preps, with some split-level classes going on and I feel like a chicken with my head cut off.

But she's right.  I'm not getting the best and the brightest because they want the other points of pre-AP in their schedule.  "Just have their projects be slightly different."  Ahuh.  I don't do projects. But that's another story.  I could talk about that here--I don't do projects because I was so tired of the totally crappy projects kids would turn in, stuff that was printed off the web and slapped together with a glue stick and poster board.  Projects take too much time to grade.  (querere querere querere)  I guess I feel they also take away from real Latin.

But with that said, I had a good idea one year of an open-ended list of projects that students would have to do once 6 weeks (even though we are on the 9 weeks system).  I should find the list.  It included things like: a memorized Latin performance (like one of the dialogues from the book), a brochure about some aspect of Pompeii (for Latin 1), a persuasive essay based on certain stories or sets of stories (*more on this in a moment), writing a story in Latin, and some other stuff.  Don't remember.  Maybe it's time to look at it again.  These things work ok if you have REALLY DETAILED rubrics worked out in advance with CLEAR penalties for the lack of what you consider important (MEMORIZATION in a performance, for instance, or the essay being typed).

The persuasive essays....  well, that could be the differential for pre-AP since that is a skill they need for AP specifically.  I mean, if the pre-AP classes could be totally separate, I would just do so much more of the class in Latin and actually do more writing in Latin.  But stage 7 (?) with Decens and the versipellis and post cenam--I think Caecilius orchestrated the whole thing.  I could write a persuasive essay proving it.  Or, in stage 28, Cogidubnus' supposed testamentum that was clearly written by Salvius.  You could easily assign an essay to prove he did using Latin for your argument.  AP style.

I've been thinking a lot about writing in Latin and how I do very little of it with the students, putting all of my eggs in the reading basket.  Not good.   <sigh>  There's lots of good teaching I could do with half the number of students and more time to grade.  But I have to work with the system I have.

right.

Well, it's all food to think on.

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