Enrollment: 4
This is the last course in the 1st year language sequence. Traditionally, we have met four times per week. For the fall, I am planning mostly an online course format, with optional in-person meetings:
Some notes:
- Class is flipped
- Synchronous work will be used for collaboration, practice with concepts, group work and readings
- Any F2F time will be used to reinforce concepts, build community—but will have remote options
A typical week in Greek 201
Monday
Asynchronous
- Instructional Video
- Written Work due before synchronous session
Synchronous
- Group work in Teams
- Oral Practice
Tuesday
Asynchronous
- Skill-building homework tasks (to prep for F2F)
- Assessment (quiz, Edpuzzle, etc)
Synchronous
- F2F Outdoor Activities
Wednesday
Asynchronous
- Instructional Video
- Written Work due before synchronous session
Synchronous
- Group work in Teams
- Oral Practice
Friday
Asynchronous
- Skill-building homework tasks (to prep for F2F)
- Quiz
Synchronous
- Readings in Teams
What do I mean by F2F Outdoor activities?
For me, these have to be adding some value to be worth it—I still want any time physically spent together to be as safe as possible…and something that we can do while wearing masks (not ideal for second language production). I’m crafting exercises that we can do outdoors to practice key grammatical concepts (e.g., comparative and superlatives adjectives will involve a scavenger hunt, “find the tallest tree on the quad.”). I think a lot of these will probably involve games we can do at a distance, or scavenger hunts or the like. In addition to allowing us to (comparatively) safely be together as a class, I think they will break up the monotony of the weekly routine. Students working remotely could, however, do the tasks from home.