latin v honors: leanne villani district determined measure...

LatinVHonors:LeanneVillani

PentucketPublicSchools

DistrictDeterminedMeasure

Author:Ovid

OriginalText:“Metamorphosis”

UnitII:RomanMorality:Hospitality

EssentialQuestions(Open-endedquestions):

1. WhatcanIlearnaboutRomanmoralityfromthemythsinOvid’sMetamorphosis?

2. HowcanIrelate,compareandcontrastRomanexpectationsofmoralitytoWesternexpectationsofmorality?

3. HowcanIusemyunderstandingofRomanmoralitytoenhancemycommunity?

Skills:

1. AcquiringunderstandingandeffectiveapplicationofnewLatinvocabforeachmythintheunit.

2. AcquiringandunderstandingEnglishderivativesforthenewLatinvocabineachunit.

3. Summarizingthemainideasintheauthentictext4. Imagingthemainideasintheauthentictext5. Translatingauthentictextwithanadvancedlevelofaccuracy6. Readingwithconfidenceatanadvancedleveloffluencyusing

acquiredtranslating,imagingandsummarizingskills.

7. Analyzingauthentictext.8. Recognizing,explaininganddiscussingnarrative,poeticdevices

Outcomes:

1. UsingselectedVTSprompts,studentswillanswertheessentialquestionsinEnglishandinLatindemonstratingincreasinglevelsofaccuracy,clarityandfluency.

2. Collaboratingasaclass,studentswillselectandperforma“hospitality”task.“ProjectLinus”and“Ellie’sHats”aretwocharitieswesupportedthisyear.