1. Standard and Learning Objective
1.1. Standard: Communication Standard B 1.1.2 of Classical Languages section in the World Languages Standards published by the DC OSSE, 2009
1.2. Learning Objective: “[Students shall be able to] [r]ecognize and identify essential grammatical structures to understand and translate simple phrases and/or sentences in Latin … .”
1.3. Context: Latin Past Tense
2. Student Learner Readiness and Profiles
2.1. Readiness: All students understand the concepts of Tense, Conjugation and the Past
2.1.1. Some Students are not yet ready to use the Latin Past Tense to translate the completed past (he swam) and the recent past (he has swum) (Group 1)
2.1.2. Some Students are not yet ready to use the new concept of 3rd Principal Part + a new ending to form the Past Tense (Group 2)
2.2. Different Types of Learner - All students will receive a basic teacher demonstration of the relevant principles
2.2.1. Auditory Learners: This Group learns through listening. Typically they learn through rhyme, song and pneumonic.
2.2.2. Visual Learners: This Group learns through visual sources such as pictures and videos.
2.2.3. Creative Learners: This Group learns through the creation of their own work product that explains or demonstrates a concept
3. Differentiated Activities following Teacher Demonstration of Principles: Students will be given a choice card allowing them to chose two of the three differentiated activities. Later, in the first Formative Assessment (a simple LATIN to ENGLISH translation exercise), students will be given differentiated materials dependent on their readiness
3.1. Auditory Learners:
3.1.1. Song: We have a song for verb endings in other tenses. I have devised this (to the tune of student favorite: "I like to move it, move it". Students will learn, practice and perform it.
3.1.1.1. I is I, can I believe it? ISTI’s you and IT is It too He, she they’re the same IT IMUS, we, can we believe it? ISTIS, you all, can you all believe it? They is ERUNT, ERUNT!
3.2. Visual Learners
3.2.1. Video: At a workstation in the classroom, watch a video which explains the principles again. students can stop and review as they go.
3.2.1.1. Watch this:
3.3. Creative Learners
3.3.1. Create a poster which shows the Past Tense creation and use principles
3.4. Group 1 Readiness
3.4.1. Students' translation sheets will contain an additional reminder on the two possible English translations of the Latin Past Tense
3.5. Group 2 Readiness
3.5.1. Students will be given a graphic organiser which helps them to break down the process of verb translation into the 3 familiar steps we use for all translations: Ending (Person and Number), Form (Tense), Stem (Verb Meaning)
4. Identifying Learner Readiness and Learner Styles
4.1. Readiness
4.1.1. Learner Readiness will be identifies through simple Formative Assignments such as "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down routine
4.2. Learner Styles
4.2.1. All students in our school should have a basis Learning Style Profile. I will check this with my own assessment of the Learning Activities that the students themselves chose and the success that they have with them