Showing posts with label Latin Vocab Study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin Vocab Study. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Vocabulary Quizzes for Ubi Fera Sunt

Recently Bolchazy-Carducci announced the arrival of Ubi Fera Sunt, a Latin translation  by Rick A. LaFleur of Maurice Sendak's beloved Where the Wild Things Are. The book, with its limited vocabulary, makes a great addition to Latin classrooms of any level. To help make it an effective resource in the classroom, we have provided links to several quizzes that will make it fun and easy for students to master the vocabulary. Quizzes and instructions on how to use each format  can be found on our web page here, under the "Digital Content" tab.

One platform, Quia, functions as either a take-home quiz for the students to finish for practice on their own or as one for the students to complete during class. It lists the Latin or English for the students and they must type in the correct translation.

The other platform, Kahoot, is primarily an in-class quiz. The teacher displays a Latin word with four possible translations, and it is up to the student to choose the correct one.

For teachers who don't use Quia or Kahoot, LaFleur has also provided a complete vocabulary list, divided by parts of speech, which is also available under the "Digital Content" tab.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

New Vocabulary Program — eyeVocab


eyeVocab maximizes state-of-the-art technology and revolutionizes second language vocabulary acquisition. 

Far more than a set of electronic flashcards, the multimodal vocabulary program facilitates a significantly deeper learning and retention. Students will readily master vocabulary and thereby devote far more of their study time and energy to reading and analyzing the Aeneid.

eyeVocab leverages memory for graphically distinctive and emotionally affective images with narrative implications, presented in isolation and combined with phonologically emphasized sound, to establish long-term declarative knowledge of the vocabulary presented.

eyeVocab has provided impressive results in Latin, Arabic, Spanish, and Mandarin at the middle school, high school, and university levels, including university intensive courses in Latin and Arabic as well as Arabic intensive courses funded by the US State Department. These results far exceed those attained employing all other methods of vocabulary learning.


Features:
  • powerful images drawn from art, both western and eastern, through the ages, from photojournalism and historical photography, from great book illustrations, and from other sources
  • each vocabulary word is carefully articulated with macrons in the classical pronunciation
  • multisensory program draws on visual, auditory, and tactile learning as well as subvocalizing that collectively hardwire the new vocabulary in student’s long-term memory
  • for use in the classroom, language lab, or at home
The basis of the power of this method: eyeVocab's Essential Principles.

For more information see: eyeVocab and Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition.

eyeVocab is being developed for Latin for the New Millennium Levels 1 and 2, Caesar Selections from his Commentarri De Bello Gallico, Vergil's Aeneid Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6, and Vergil's Aeneid Books I-VI.

Available:

eyeVocab for Clyde Pharr's Aeneid I-VI
This implementation of eyeVocab Latin covers the high frequency vocabulary, 261 words, from the pullout in Clyde Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid: Books I-VI.



eyeVocab for Barbara Weiden Boyd's Vergil's AENEID: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6
This implementation of eyeVocab Latin covers those 162 vocabulary words that occur eight times or more in Barbara Weiden Boyd's Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6.


Forthcoming:


eyeVocab for Caesar Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico
eyeVocab for Latin for the New Millennium Level 1
eyeVocab for Lation for the New Millennium Level 2


NB: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to help distribute this remarkable program. All technical questions and concerns, however, should be directed to eyeVocab’s Miles Becker at sales@eyeVocab.com.

AP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.