Report from the Field – John Piazza – 3

Here is the Latin text John referred to in the previous post. Given as a reading after nine days of only the Circling with Balls activity to start the year, I would venture to state that for a first year class to be comfortably reading texts like the one below in only their second week, something must be being done right in John’s classroom. All that auditory input and discussion to start the year seems to have produced some unmistakably positive results, because kids in only their second week of Latin are comfortable with reading this text (because it is about them):

In primis diebus classis linguae Latinae, discipuli et discipulae pingunt, et magister loquitur Latine de discipulis. Haec est fabula nostra:

Eva astronomiam amat. Caprice quoque astronomiam amat. Caprice et Eva astronomiam amant. Eva canem habet. Nomen cani est Apollo. Nick felem habet. Nomen felis est Kittish. Isabel quoque feles amat. Isabel felem habet. Nomen feli est “Moonstone” (Latine “Petraluna” vel “Lunalapis”). Isabel rusticare amat, et dormit in tentorio, sed non cum fele. Zach quoque rusticare amat. Zach rusticat cum amicis.

Shoshana rusticare non amat, sed amat Harry Potter. Ryan paulo amat Harry Potter, sed libros amat. Ryan amicos et libros amat. Magister amicos non habet. Magister libros Latinos amat. Libri Latini sunt amici Magistri. Emmett Harry Potter non amat, sed Emmett dormire amat.

Malachy musicam amat. Malachy canit cithar?. Lena quoque musicam amat, et cithar? canit. Lena paulo canit cithar?. Ivy feles non amat, sed unicornos amat. Ivy unicornos loquentes amat. Nitika non unicornos loquentes, sed sororem amat. Nitika sororem parvam habet.

Eliana cafeam et theatrum musicale amat. Eliana est histrio (actor), et amat spectare spectacula. Eliana multa spectacula musicalia amat. Marielena pingit picturas. Marielena picturas magnas pingit. In picturis Marielenae, sunt personae, non natura. Marilena personas pingit in picturis magnis. Leo et scribit et pingit optime. Leo scribit omnia quae magister dicit–Latine! Eli libros amat, et cogitat (thinks).

Andrew ludit pil? pigmenti (paintball) et est faber (blacksmith). Logan mathematicam amat, et rusticat in montibus altis. Sophie libros amat. Sophie musicam amat, et Shakespeare. Queenie astronomiam amat, et spectaculum “Iter Stellarum.” Queenie pingit dracones, et cogitat de geminis.

Discipuli novi in classe sunt Nina et Harrison. Harrison amat urbem Detroit. Harrison est ex urbe Detroit, et canit violin?. Nina picturas pingit, et animalia amat. Nina quattuor animalia habet in cas?. Oliver amat Niagara Falls, et natat in Niagara Falls. Oliver est fortis–aut insanus! Jane non amat Niagara Falls. Jane amat dulcea. Jane et Milky Way et Snickers amat. Suffragium est in classe. XIII discipuli amant Milky Way, sed XV Snickers amant!

Esme est discipula athletica. Esme non in Niagra Falls natat, sed pediludio ludit. Kai quoque pediludio ludit, et crosse? ludit. Magister crosse? non ludit. Magister libros Latinos amat, sed amicos non habet. Jake quoque est athleticus, et canistripil? ludit. Athos scientiam amat et spectat res parvas per microscopum. Brendan cubum rubicum amat. Cubus Rubicus est aenigma. Brendan cubum rubicum solvit in quadraginta quinque secundas! Audrey unicornos amat (sed non unicornos loquentes), et tub? canit. Non canit tub? maxim? American?, sed tub? medi?. Hera habet nomen divinum Graecum. Hera musicam amat et musicam audit, sed non canit. Hera quoque pelliculas in Netflix amat. Sam cithar? canit, sed cithar? parv? Hawaiian?. Liam quoque musicam amat. Liam clavichordio electonico canit, et faber est.

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