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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Dictation Follow Up - Quick Lesson Ideas

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Rachel and I have posted quite a bit on dictations , and there are an almost infinite amount of ways to do them. My personal favourites are ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

R, R, R - No Failure Classroom - An update

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One of the things that Rachel and I really believe in is the No Failure Classroom. We've posted on this a few times and, today, it made ...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Comprehensible Input: Understandable Messages

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This past weekend, Bob Patrick (@bobpatrick), Keith Toda (@silvius_toda), Rachel, and I all attended the Alabama World Language Association...
Friday, February 3, 2017

Task-based White Elephant

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"Communicative Tasks" is one of those life-changing (or at least curriculum-changing) ideas: since listening to  Tea with BVP  and...
Monday, January 2, 2017

There's More than One Way to Skin a Dictatio

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"Dictatio" is one of the few words my students dread in my class. I'm going to admit that it's a nice break for me--requir...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Using Stranger Things' Demogorgon: Connecting Pop Culture to Ancient Authors

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This group really did a great job finding themes to compare. The end of the semester is tough; not only are students exhausted and stres...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Guest Post: Pictura an Statua?

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K.C. Kless is a CI-focused Latin teacher who is a fantastic innovator of classroom practices both technological and traditional. I asked him...