{"id":225,"date":"2017-09-16T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T10:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinclub\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2017-09-16T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T10:51:03","slug":"grades-6-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latinclub\/grades-6-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Grades 6-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Pronunciation\/ choosing a Roman name\/ Nomen mihi est _____\/ Quid agis?\/ Ago optime, bene, haud male, male and pessime!\/ Dialogues 1 and 2\/ Family Vocabulary and draw and color a family tree<\/p>\n<p>2) Vocabulary for Chapter 1 (pg. 7) and translate the cartoon on pages 2-6\/ Fill-in-the-blanks in Practicing the Language \u201cA\u201d\/ PowerPoint Presentation on Roman houses\/ Draw and label the parts of a Roman house<\/p>\n<p>3) Review the vocabulary from Chapter 1 with the prison game\/ Complete word study B (pg. 17) based on the students\u2019 knowledge of vocabulary from Chapter 1\/ PowerPoint presentation on Roman clothing\/ Parts of Speech<\/p>\n<p>4) Vocabulary for Chapter 2 (pg. 34)\/ translation of cartoons on page 20-23\/ Subjects and Direct Objects\/ Practice diagramming sentences (use sentences from Exercise B on page 27)\/ Complete Exercise C on page 27\/ PowerPoint presentation on Roman Dinner Parties and Roman food\/ Pretend you are a host and create a menu for a Roman Dinner Party<\/p>\n<p>5) Mythology: The Creation of the world and the 12 Titans\/ Vocabulary for Chapter 3\/ PowerPoint on Aqueducts\/ Building an Aqueduct online game (NOVA)\/ Review subjects and direct objects\/ Exercise C on page 42<\/p>\n<p>6) Vocabulary review game (Chapters 1-3)\/ Mythology: The Olympian Gods\/ The Rape of Persephone video\/ Comprehension questions about the Rape of Persephone\/ the endings \u2013t\/ the endings \u2013o and \u2013s\/ Translate the comic strip on pages 52-56<\/p>\n<p>7) Vocabulary for Chapter 4\/ Teach students about the Roman Forum using Google Earth\/ Have students go on a scavenger hunt in East College to find posters representing buildings that would have stood in or near the Roman forum\/ Mythology: The Creation of Man, the creation of woman and the flood<\/p>\n<p>8) Vocabulary for Chapter 5\/ translate the comic strip for Chapter 5\/ Singular verbs and plural verbs \u2013 change the verb from plural to singular or singular to plural\/ Singular nouns and plural nouns \u2013 change the noun from singular to plural or plural to singular\/ Create a singular and plural chart for nouns and verbs\/ Complete the Word Study Exercise A based on the vocabulary for Chapter 5<\/p>\n<p>9) Vocabulary review game (chapters 4 and 5)\/ Myths of Love: Echo and Narcissus, Apollo and Daphne\/ Pygmalion\/ Pyramus and Thisbe\/ Philemon and Baucis\/ Zeus and Io\/ Zeus and Europa\/ Cupid and Psyche<\/p>\n<p>10) Roman Theatre\/ Choose two of the love myths out of a hat and act out the love myth\/ Chapter 6 vocabulary\/ Translate the comic strip for Chapter 6<\/p>\n<p>11) The imperfect tense and the perfect tense\/ Present and Imperfect forms of sum, esse\/ Slavery in Rome: The Slave Market\/ Making a Market Sign\/ Slavery in Rome: Treatment of Slaves\/ PowerPoint on Spartacus and show a clip from the end of <em>Spartacus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12) Chapter 8 Vocabulary\/ translate the comic strips for chapter 8 (pages 122-124)\/ noun chart \u2013 singular and plural subjects and singular and plural direct objects\/ Exercise D (pg. 130)\/ Comparative and superlative adjectives\/ Exercise C (pg. 132)<\/p>\n<p>13) PowerPoint on blood sports and types of gladiators\/ Vocabulary review game (chapters 6 and 8)\/ Mythology: Hubris: Arachne\/ Atlanta\/ Midas\/ Bellerophon and Icarus<\/p>\n<p>14) Vocabulary for Chapter 9\/ translation of the comic strip for Chapter 9 (pg. 142-144)\/ PowerPoint presentation on the baths\/ Complete Word Study A (pg. 159) based on the vocabulary for Chapter 9<\/p>\n<p>15) Watch a video version of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice\/ Review noun endings: nominative and accusative singular and plural\/ Review verb endings: 3<sup>rd<\/sup> person singular and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> person plural: present, imperfect and pluperfect tenses\/ present and imperfect tenses of sum<\/p>\n<p>16) Vocabulary for Chapter 11\/ translation of the comic strip for Chapter 11 (pg. 204\/ Conjugating verbs in the present and imperfect tenses\/ Dead Fish Game\/ Watch \u201cThe Last Days of Pompeii\u201d to talk about the eruption of Mt. 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