Greek Club

Thursday, January 8 – We have not had Greek Club for the past few weeks due to the winter break. Today in Greek Club I planned a review for my students to do so that they could get back into the flow of doing Greek after the vacation. I gave them some exercises with verbs and nouns for them to conjugate and decline. I planned the activity so they would have about fifteen minutes to do the verbs and then fifteen more to do the nouns. Afterward we went over a review of the basics of grammar like sentence structure and word arrangement. Planning and initiating these activities has definitely been a challenge for me in Greek Club this year, but I am having fun doing it.

Thursday, January, 15 – Today in Greek I decided to work on translation with all my students, old and new. I chose a passage from our Greek books that would have both difficult lines to translate for my older students and easier lines for my newer students. We all sat in a circle in desks and went over the passage line by line with Greek dictionaries for the vocabulary. I had a different student read each new line aloud so that they could get some practice in with pronouncing the words. I was very pleased with our progress in translating because we were able to complete the entire passage.