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1/7/2018

Day 1 - Miriam

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What is something you did that you loved?
There are lots of things I loved about my year teaching Latin III... but... if I think about something that I loved and will continue to loved, I'm going to have to go with Free Voluntary Reading. 
Last year, Rachel and I did a podcast series on The Reading Whisperer and I took many ideas from it. When it came time to set up my expectations for FVR, I knew I wanted to establish the kind of space the author had. It is something I'm still working on, but I am very pleased with how it went this year and I am sure it will only get better. 

What I did
Since I was teaching Level III, my students already had some reading skill (so when I do this with my Is this year, it will be different). I started by discussing with them the rules for FVR:
  1. We read, 3 days a week. 
  2. We read - we don't write, we don't talk, we don't draw - we just read. 
  3. WE read, meaning that I am expected to read too. 
  4. We'll start with 10 minutes and increase time as needed. 
Since I was just starting this process with them, we only got to about 12 minutes, but I look forward to having even more time to read with the Is that start with me. 

We also established some expectations for what they would read:
  • Any book in Latin that was in the FVR library. 
This included all the available novellas that we had bought, as well as a few other books in Latin that I had. I went ahead and added them even though they were well above the reading level of my students because the interest was there. 

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Amy
2/7/2018 10:13:02 am

I really like this idea. I am not sure my school has the budget for 20 more short novellas. Are there some that you would recommend to print out and it is ok with the person who wrote them? I finally got my own color copier so I am all set up to make my own library.

I am taking and online speaking class and the teacher said that reading simple Latin texts really helped him improve his over all understanding so I am definitely committed to doing this in levels 1-3

Thanks so much for your insight!

Amy G.

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Miriam
2/7/2018 11:42:20 am

Hi Amy! Having money for novellas is a big issue I think and one that we all face to varying extents... Regarding the printing of novellas, I would not recommend it unless it is explicitly stated that doing so is allowed. Since they are published novellas, there are copyright issues and most of the authors of the Latin novellas are their own publishers and make little to no money anyways.

What I would recommend, as an example using our novellas, is that you can have a link to the free online version for students to access on their own devices (if they have them) or on a school computer. It isn't perfect, but it is what I did last year when we hadn't purchased a novella that my kids were reading. I put it online and when we had "snow days" I assigned reading from it.

You might also consider building a library from the short stories you use in class. I know some teachers build binders of short stories that are either adaptations, teacher written, or student written. In fact, that is my plan to begin doing this year with my level I classes.

I hope this helps... please let me know if you have other questions!

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