Greek Club

Thursday, February 19 - Today in Greek Club I continued working on translations with my sutdents. However, this time, before we began translating, I went over a few of the basics to how to attack a translation so that they would have an easier time with it. I talked about how it was important to first locate the basic parts that make up a sentence which are the verb, subject, and direct object. Then I told them that next it was important to look at the other parts of the sentence like adjectives and adverbs, to see how they fit in with the sentence. After I had gone over these essentials for translating, we did a small passage and my students did very well on it.

Thursday, February 26 - Today not enough students showed up to the Greek Club meeting and we decided to cancell it for the day. This was not for any particular reason, everyone just seemed to have things to do at the same time.

Thursday, March 5 - Today in Greek Club my students requested that I go over declensions with them because they had forgatten them and it was making it difficult for them to translate without this basic knowledge. I reviewed the declensions with them and then I had them go to the white board and practice declining words by themselves. I also made them pronounce the words and guess what they meant to get some vocabulary and pronunciation practice into the lesson. I also made them conjugate some verbs because I assumed that if they had forgotten the nounsthey probably forgot some verbs as well. I was right.

Thursday, March 12 - Today was the last real day of Greek Club for me for this year. This because I am begining softball and I will have practices on Thursdays and cannot make it to Greek Club. In honor of my last day I gave my students a test in ancient Greek grammar to see what they had really learned from my teaching this year. I gave the older students a more difficult test and the newer students an easier one. Somewhat to my suprise, they did very well on the tests and I was very pleased to see that my teaching was working. After they finished I told them what they should work on for the rest of the year when I would not be there. I mostly gave them translations from the Greek books to work on. It was nice to able to plan activities for them even thuogh I would not be there to initiate them. I was confident they could do them themselves.

Thursday, May 21 - Today I called a Greek Club meeting so that I would be able to tell my students the plan for next year and say goodbye to them for the summer. It was to be the very last meeting of the school year and I made cookies to celebrate. We had the cookies and I told all my students that if they wanted to do Greek Club again next year that I would be organizing the schedual for it and I told them to twell me what days would be good for them at the begining of the next school year. I was very pleased with the way Greek Club turned out this year and I was very proud of myself for taking on the responsibility of teaching. I felt that I was successful in planning and initiating activities for the club even thuogh it was a difficult new challenge for me. I thuoght I did very well.