Undergraduate Lessons.
Below are some examples of language lessons I have used in my undergraduate classes.
LAT 101 -
The Present Tense
As part of my Latin 101 class, every week we had Culture Monday on which we would incorporate discussion of some aspect of Roman culture and history into language lessons. In this lesson, we discussed the present tense and the Colosseum. In the spirit of the naval battles staged in the Colosseum, afterwards we played a game called Naumachia which is modeled after the board game Battleship (view). Students had to be able to conjugate verbs in order to win.
LAT 102 - Periphrastics
As part of an education course, I was required to give a microteaching lesson in a class that I had not taught before. This lesson on the Periphrastic was given in a Latin 102 class. I have included a voice over in the Prezi in order to guide viewers through the lesson. After the lesson, I asked students to write two things a free man or woman does; one using an active periphrastic, the other a passive periphrastic (view).
LAT 104 -
Aeneid Character
Wiki Project
In my course on book 2 of Virgil's Aeneid, each student worked on a semester-long project of creating a "Wiki" or Wikipedia page for a character in the poem. As part of the project, students read and translated an extra passage into idiomatic English (unlike the literal translations produced in class), summarized their character’s role in the poem, discussing how Virgil talks about them and what words does he use to describe them, responded to an article about their character, and found visuals of the character. At the semester, each student gave a presentation and connected to the other pages. Here are two examples of students' final project on Venus and Turnus: