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Jul 10 3 Strategies for Latin Interactive Notebooks

Strategies for Implementing a Latin Interactive Notebook

As a teacher, I have always wanted a Latin interactive notebook to exist. Interactive notebooks are so enticing: they allow you to review, or present material, or have the students quiz themselves, in a manner that’s doesn’t include me lecturing. After years of making a page or two at a time, I finally made an comprehensive Latin interactive notebook.

3 Ways to Use a Latin Interactive Notebook

How I use my Latin Interactive Notebook: Supplemental Instruction. To counter-act the “summer slide” of Latin grammar learned in 7th grade, my incoming 8th graders complete an interactive notebook at the start of the year. An interactive notebook is preferable to just re-taking the same notes as last year, and it allows them to review using the templates!
Sub Plans! Because the Latin Interactive Notebook comes with instructions and example pictures, you could easily fill a class period’s sub plans by projecting the pre-made instruction slides onto a screen and handing the sub the copies of the pages to complete. There are Roman History, Mythology, and Latin grammar pages so the students could take a whole period to review The Roman Kings, The Trojan War, and declension endings all on a sub day!
Interactive review. The pages of any interactive notebook are intended to function as review activities for students. This comes in two forms: 1. flaps that have endings underneath and a prompt on top. 2. Pockets for cases and parts of speech along with cutouts that need to be sorted by the students.

I ended up with a Latin interactive notebook that has 51 activities, including everything from History and Myth to Latin Grammar. The grammar included ranges from parts of speech and basic case function to every noun and verb ending my 7th and 8th grade students need to know.