Bob Patrick on Read and Discuss

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1. David Talone

   January 6, 2013 at 12:47 pm

   Bob,

   Thanks for sharing this. It is great to see in detail how you attack the reading process in Latin. It is quite helpful for those of us who are stumbling our way along the path.

   Are you teaching out of Cambridge? If so, do you adapt the stories or present them straight out of the book?

   –We begin reading. I read a few lines out loud and allow for questions about difficult spots. They ask in Latin: quomodo dicitur ______.
   –Then, I ask questions. At this point, my question are designed to elicit the story from them. At the beginning of a story, and at various places throughout, they are quis/qui, ubi, until we get characters and settings in place. Soon, I begin to explore the problem, the difficultas, with them. This process goes on until we have read the story together and discussed all of its aspects, IN LATIN. Even so, it’s my job to deliver a discussion and a reading that is COMPREHENSIBLE to them in Latin. As with all things CI, this work is done with your barometer students, or those who seem to be struggling the most, in mind. If they are understanding, everyone else is, too.

   When you do this process of asking questions, do the students have the text in front of them? Are they supposed to answer based off that? Same question for when you read aloud – do the students have the text or are they simply listening to you? The story is already set, so this is not a creative exercise, i.e. you are not looking for cute details. You are simply asking questions based on what the students have in front of them in print, right? So they have to restate what they have in front of them.

   Do you not use any choral reading in English with the stories, or grammar pop-ups?

   thanks,

   Dave

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