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=Start of school year, September 2014=



Department organization --

Contract for start of school year / first day of school --

Biweekly grading worksheet --

Letter for new day/boarding students --



=Monday, March 31 2014 meeting =

Updates from winter term

 * ====Alliance Française essay contest - results mid April ====
 * ====National Latin Exam - results mid April ====
 * ====Blaine Ray readers - FRII, FRIII, FRIV, SPIV ====
 * ====Quizlet - Jillian has had great success with this study tool ====

Looking to spring term

 * ====Calligrams - creative project for April's poetry celebration, maybe a display for Poetry Walk on Grandparents' Day May 7 ====
 * ====Cool Cubes - watch video about game we have to share within department, Ali has used this with her classes ====
 * ==== TPRS sample classes - watch recent video as Blaine Ray teaches ====
 * ====TPRS student expectations - explains grading for storytelling bi-weekly ====
 * ====TPRS bi-weekly grading - grid for class participation, homework, and assessment ====

Housekeeping

 * ====Spring Term Department Calendar 2014 ====

*** =October 8, 2013 -- iPad resources =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Possible Apps:
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">LATIN <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Virgil out Loud - free - reading aloud from literature <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Pocket Latin Lite - free - latin/english dictionary

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">SPANISH <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Spanish dictionary - free - spanish/english dictionary <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Dominoes HD - free - play game

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">SPANISH/FRENCH/LATIN <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Scrabble - free - play in French and Spanish <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Flashcards (NKO ventures) - free - make flashcards <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Flipboard - free - organize current events from various media <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">StoryRobe - $1.99 - take photos and create story with voice recording <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Verb conjugators - free or $.99 - verb conjugation charts

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Possible iBooks:
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">check FACULTY iPad in library for some samples <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Prices vary, though possible to download samples

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">LATIN <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Latin for Beginners <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Latin Translation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Latin Grammar <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Latin Literature

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">SPANISH <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">I can read series - beginner English/Spanish with recording <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">First Spanish Reader - advanced beginner English/Spanish reader <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Latin American Folktakes - English reader

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">FRENCH <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">I can read series - beginner English/French with recording <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">White Flag Publishers - advanced beginner French reader with recording <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">French Impressionists - English reader about French art history

=Start of school year, September 2013=

Department organization --

Items to share:
Contract for start of school year / first day of school --

Biweekly grading worksheet --

Letter for new day/boarding students --

Lesson plans -- This is a sharing area for those of use collaborating with the same levels. GD will be posting lesson plans for FRI and for TPRS lessons.

=Monday, March 25 2013 meeting= French class updates from winter term
 * Pre-fabricated dialogues to work on fluency and pronunciation. These incorporated grammar from the textbook chapter.
 * Example for FRII
 * @http://lingtlanguage.com/home - made exercises to practice dialogues.
 * next to explore TPRS -- focus on target language without dependency on written text.
 * Curious? Check out -- @http://www.blaineraytprs.com

Housekeeping
 * Spring term department calendar 2013



=Monday, November 26th 2012 meeting notes=

French class updates --
 * grading rubric - keeps grading more consistent, though time consuming between classes to note participation grades
 * Inspiration 9 software (RT3 lab) to create active studying templates vocabulary spelling and verb conjugations
 * www.edmodo.com - free, no ads, kids get updates via email, able to post up to 100MB files of text, video, and audio
 * www.youtube.com/mademoiselleduff - easy to create playlists for classes
 * Storybirds - see foreign language examples, a little tricky but ability to create stories online with art templates
 * next to explore - @http://lingtlanguage.com/home/ - free online to record/listening activities