Greek 201: Intermediate Ancient Greek — Elizabeth Manwell

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

Weekly workflow for GREEK 202. The content of this diagram is given below in a form suitable for screen reader software.

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.

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