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Westside High School Weekly Lesson Plan Teacher Name:JP BerryUnit Name:Thermae Romae; LupercaliaCourse:Latin IDates:February 17 to 21, 2020MondayDaily Objective: Students will be able to identify traditions of the Roman holiday, Lupercalia, in order to gain an understanding of aspects of Roman culture and to compare those aspects to modern language/ civilization.Part 1: Students will review traditions of Lupercalia from discussion and readings from last week and act out key traditions.Part 2: Students will use a Rally Coach group activity to group traditions in 3 categories: tradtions that are still present in contemporary holidays, traditions that have been altered in contemporary holidays, and traditions that are unique to the ancient Roman tradition.Course Requirements/Standards: Roman Culture Agenda: Warm-up (NLE Practice Questions) > Finish Latin Valentine’s Day cards > Review readings and discussions > Re-enactment of Lupercalia holiday traditions > Comparing Lupercalia and modern holidays.Check for Understanding (CFU)/Assessments: Reviewing and refreshing information on Lupercalia, Rally Coach comparison group workMaterials: CLC Unit 1 textbooks.FollowUp/Homework: Complete Vocabulary/ Derivative Chart; Review Stage 10 Vocabulary Terms (5-10 minutes).TuesdayDaily Objective: Students will view current research on Roman building materials and methods and engineering to compare technologies of the Roman era to our own via the modern construction of an ancient Roman bath or “thermae”.● Part 1: Students will review basic methods of construction and building materials of the Romans (Stage 9 in CLC).● Part 2: Students will view the real-time creation of replicas of Roman baths in order to determine accuracy of information and compare to modern equivalents. Course Requirements/Standards: Roman Life and Engineering.Agenda: Warm-up (NLE Practice Questions) > Stage 9 Review > Roman thermae video clips > Post-video discussionsCheck for Understanding (CFU)/Assessments: Warm-up, oral review, questions and answers.Materials: CLC Unit 1 Textbooks; Roman thermae video clips.FollowUp/Homework: Review Stage 10 Vocabulary Terms (5-10 minutes)Wednesday/ ThursdayDaily Objective: Students will understand the achievements of historical black and African-Americans in the study of Classics in order to view these achievements in the larger view of American history and the Civil Rights Movement and in conjunction with Black History Month.● Part 1: Students will begin group research of 1 of 18 black and African-American .● Part 2: Students will compare findings to those in the Centre for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University’s Mural Mosaic Project. Course Requirements/Standards: Modern Classics.Agenda: Warm-up (NLE Practice Questions) > Stage 10 Vocabulary Practice > Assigning Groups > Research ProjectsCheck for Understanding (CFU)/Assessments: Vocabulary and HW, Warm-up, group evaluation, Research Project.Materials: CLC Unit 1 Textbooks; Research Study Sources.FollowUp/Homework: Review Stage 10 Vocabulary Terms (5-10 minutes)FridayDaily Objective: Students will be able to identify and to translate verbs in different numbers, persons and tenses in order to create increased accuracy of higher level-difficulty adapted passages.Part 1: Students will create conjugation charts and fill-in parsing sheets based on verbs in the introduction for Stage 10.Part 2: Students will choose one method of finding meanings in verb usage and complete work to share and explain with the other methods, thus learning AND explaining/ teaching both methods in their table groups.Course Requirements/Standards: Grammar and TranslationAgenda: Warm-up (NLE Questions) > Verb Review > Conjugation and Parsing Lesson and Notes > ID verbs in Stage 10 > Complete Conjugation or Parsing Assignments > Share and compare work w/ table partners > Complete translation w/ both methods to show work.Check for Understanding (CFU)/Assessments: Grammar notes; Conjugation/ Parsing work; group sharing and participating; Stage 10 introductory translation.Materials: CLC Unit 1 Textbook; Conjugation and parsing notes and forms.FollowUp/Homework: Complete Stage 10 Introductory Translation; Review Stage 10 Vocabulary Terms (5-10 minutes).

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