Getting Started with Latin Teacher Boot Camp
Hello! Welcome to the Ancient Language Institute. We’re so excited you’ll be studying Latin with us this summer.
You are now enrolled in Latin Teacher Summer Boot Camp. Please read on to learn more about logistics, course materials, first assignment, and your Zoom classroom.
If you have any questions about the program at any time, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We want to make sure you have the best, smoothest experience with ALI possible. We have and will continue to put in lots of work to ensure your success and happiness, but we do need you to do some work to help us, too. Please read on and we will explain.
Please bookmark this page for future reference – it will be helpful as you prepare for your course. The information presented here is critically important and has several action steps that require your attention.
Overview
- Note down your class meeting time.
- Look for an email with log-in information to your digital textbook, about a week before the first class session.
- Look for your course materials in the mail, about a week before the first class session.
- Complete your first assignment before the first day of class.
- Your teacher will be in touch about one week before the start of the term with a Zoom link and other logistical information.
- You will receive your full class syllabus on the first day of class.
Class Meeting Time
When you signed up, you selected a course section with weekly meeting times. Those are the days and times your class will meet over Zoom over the five weeks of the Boot Camp. Please save this to your calendar so we don’t have any conflicts arise! If you have forgotten, please check the order notification email you received after checkout. That email will have your course section meeting time. If at any point you need to switch sections, please let us know ASAP. We’re happy to help.
Your teacher will be in touch one week before classes begin with a Zoom link and other logistical information.
Course Materials
In the Boot Camp, we’ll be using “Latin Grammar 3,” an integrated Picta Dicta program designed especially for middle and high school students, but there is no expectation that you’ll be using that particular platform in your own teaching or in your post-Boot Camp personal study. (Though of course we’d be thrilled if you are interested in using it beyond – we love it!)
Latin Grammar 3 (or “LG3” for short) is a digital + print tool that we provide at no additional charge to all Boot Camp students. We will email you with log-in information to the digital module, about a week before classes begin.
There is also a print workbook for LG3, which we will mail to you, using the shipping address you provided at registration. That should arrive shortly before classes begin as well.
First Assignment
In order to make the Boot Camp a success, we need you to do some work before the first class meeting.
Once you receive your LG3 log-in information (a week before classes begin), head into the platform and complete all of the Lesson 1 activities on the digital platform. Lesson 1 is comprised of 13 exercises. So for your first assignment, you’ll be doing all the activities for Lesson 1: that is, activity #1 (“Learn Vocab”) through activity #13 (“Quid est in mēnsā?”).
Once you receive your LG3 hardcopy workbook in the mail (also, about a week before classes begin), open that up and read through and complete all the exercises for Lesson 1 in the workbook. In the LG3 workbook, that means everything on pages 3-7. We recommend doing the digital activities first, and using the hardcopy workbook as a tool to reinforce what was introduced on the digital platform.
Finally, since you can’t get started on any of the LG3 stuff until right before the Boot Camp begins, we have an optional task for you that you can get started on now. ALI Latin & Greek Fellow Luke Ranieri has an excellent YouTube channel packed with great Latin videos. If you want an introduction to simple, spoken Latin, he has the perfect playlist for that: Lingua Latina Comprehensibilis. If you watch this, you’ll begin to get accustomed to the look and sound of Latin, but don’t worry – we aren’t going to test you on anything in these videos!
Since that was a lot, here’s your first assignment to complete before the first class meeting again, in summary:
- LG3 Digital: Complete Lesson 1 (activities #1 – #13)
- LG3 Workbook: Complete Lesson 1 (pp. 3-7)
- Optional: Watch Lingua Latina Comprehensibilis
Thanks again for joining us. We are excited to have you in class. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!
Very best,
The Ancient Language Institute Team
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