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Sequence 105are also connected directly to one another by a circular dotted line. Can you see the dotted line that connects every single… |
Sequence 106Language, what an amazing human characteristic this is! And as we think about language, there are many questions that might… |
Sequence 107are respectful these days, so we will not even think, never mind say, gibberish. However, I do remember that, when we were… |
Sequence 108Therefore, this idea of language as being something that divides as well as something that unites is very important and very… |
Sequence 109I also remember that, when l was a university student (even more years ago), it was very common, almost fashionable, to talk… |
Sequence 110talking; he has to work to acquire these human powers for himself during the very earliest period of his life. The second… |
Sequence 111potentials to fulfil!, his or her own natural path of life to follow. What the child needs, then, is the freedom to develop… |
Sequence 112Only if the child can fulfil] his task of adaptation in relation to all aspects of the surrounding environment, including the… |
Sequence 113Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of… |
Sequence 114become a kind of mother tongue; Ttalian is always a language to keep learning. When you learn a language as a child, it is so… |
Sequence 115as an ego asleep. But all of a sudden he wakes up and hears delicious music ... . At four months ... the babe becomes aware… |
Sequence 116during which he refines and enriches his language by learning many, many, many new words and by perfecting the formation of… |
Sequence 117And all l ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the Jong trick's… |
Sequence 118a child finally seem like a full-fledged person .... [Language] is also the critical foundation for much of what we consider… |
Sequence 119So Mario Montessori makes this plea that we should not look on words, for example, as a burden on the children. Each word… |
Sequence 120projects itself into the future and is sunk in the remotest ages of the past, thereby linking the past to the present and the… |
Sequence 121Montessori, Maria. Unpublished lecture. International Montessori Conference. Amsterdam. 1950. Montessori, Mario M. The… |
Sequence 122Elise Huneke Stone with her daughter 116 The NAMTA Jo11mal • Vol. 34. No. 3 • Summer 2009 |
Sequence 123ELEMENTARY STORYTELLING: THE ULTIMATE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH by Elise Huneke Stone Elise H1111eke Sto11e's lively… |
Sequence 124painful now, from when roots pulled us into the ground and because our children believe they can fly, an instinct retained… |
Sequence 125and though we listen only haphazardly, with one ear, we will begin our story with the word and And so I want to share with… |
Sequence 126MONTESSORI STORYTELLING Storytelling is identified by Dr. Montessori as the basis of el- ementary work. The five Great… |
Sequence 127this is what we expect the Great Lessons and other stories to do. Stories are essential to the elementary child as a starting… |
Sequence 128Finally, we need to tell stories that arise out of the children's interests. If a child comes in and shares something… |
Sequence 129it was a little different, allowing for repetition with variety, and the children loved it. After the third rehearsal, the… |
Sequence 130needs. And it's a behavior that all rodents share. Can anyone think of any other rodents?" The children listed… |
Sequence 131written for Italian immigrants to Argentina with the hope that they would maintain their connection to the homeland. Dr.… |
Sequence 132Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry noted that stories began in the Paleolithic. This is a nice tidbit to share with the students… |
Sequence 133respond to stories" (113). A recent ad (January 19, 2009) placed in Tl,e New Yorker by Columbia University announces… |
Sequence 134Many decades later, contemporary educators still feel the power of stories to help the children organize their impressions.… |
Sequence 135classroom storytelling as the foundation of literacy. They recognize the necessity of beginning with oral language as the… |
Sequence 136Other researchers also recognize the role of oral language in literacy. In a 1997 book intended as a guide for teachers, Ellin… |
Sequence 137ercise their imaginations when told a story, but they also come to trust the validity of their own images and appreciate the… |
Sequence 138our new experiences, thus creating meaning and understanding. In this way, stories are human truth. Stories are how our brains… |
Sequence 139rienced universe and onto the imagined universe. In elementary storytelling, we supply many parables and metaphors to engage… |
Sequence 140huge ideas therein, to a six-year-old who probably couldn't read about it with the same level of comprehension. Secondly… |
Sequence 141Jn his book Things T!tat Make Us Smart, Don Norman expounds on the way that stories communicate: Stories have the felicitous… |
Sequence 142elementary classroom, social cohesion is built through stories: When the children share something from home, or when we offer… |
Sequence 143(75). They are creating themselves and defining themselves with their self-expression, largely with the human gift of language… |
Sequence 144a time there was a child, and the child asked why, and we told the story of why. And once upon a time there was an adolescent… |
Sequence 145Montessori, Maria. Tlte Cltild, Society a11d tlte World: Unpub- lished Speeches n11d Writings. 1979. Trans. Caroline Juler… |
Sequence 146The Lighthouse of Alexandria 140 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 34. No. 3 • Summer 2009 |
Sequence 147MONTESSORI APPROACHES TO THE CLASSICS FOR ELEMENTARY STUDY: THE KEEPERS OF ALEXANDRIA by Kathleen Allen Kathleen Allen… |
Sequence 148of study. As I travel through, I'll give you some hints about how we've done it with children. When r asked John… |
Sequence 149Figure 3 shows a reconstruction of the library. This is actually from the Carl Sagan series Cosmos. For the series, they used… |
Sequence 150to keep track of all these scrolls. Each book might have multiple scrolls, and they all had to be numbered and organized.… |
Sequence 151• Claudius Ptolemy • Philip of Macedon • Eratosthenes • Parmenius • Solon • Julius Caesar • Pythagoras • Aeschylus •… |
Sequence 152Latin, the significance of which was prominent when the culture was a literary culture, is not as essential today. [ts… |
Sequence 153There is also a scroll, which we'll see later. There is another book called The Art of History, which travels through the… |
Sequence 154setting, bringing a thousand winters and summers over the land and waters .... Fate left a deathless three-headed dog to… |
Sequence 155l:f you wish to learn of Alexandria and the Scroll and the lighthouse, you too must become their keeper. Along with me, you… |
Sequence 156Figure 5. Illustration of Alexandria, from The Great Tale. is teaching a group of eighteen children in Alexandria how to read… |
Sequence 157to how parts of it worked or didn't work. This approach was very successful because we could tweak it as we went along.… |
Sequence 158Human beings understand that from the brain and only from the brain arise our pleasures, laughter, and I ightheartcdness, as… |
Sequence 159is supposed to be in Coptic and Latin. In the text that the children read, the Coptic is translated into English. For this… |
Sequence 160learn to read a Latin piece and memorize it. The piece Apollonius uses is a section from Virgil's Aeneid, and it is… |
Sequence 161Figure 8. Apollonius in the vulture costume. Figure 9. Apollonius teaching the Latin alphabet. The NAMTA Journal 155 |
Sequence 162had a little pot of red paint and had written the Latin alphabet so that everyone could see it up on the wa II. In the picture… |
Sequence 163work with Latin grammar, they notice that there is no article named. This brings up a discussion on the history of grammatical… |
Sequence 164PHARI GENTES QUfNQUE AETHJ6Prcos v ALOE AMABANT. FAMfLIA ERAT BEATA QU6AD FORT0NA MORTALJBUS RARO CONCEDAT. In the story… |
Sequence 165kind of looks like "population." Or they might see that FAMfLJA, down at the bottom, looks a lot like &… |
Sequence 166For the teacher, this is the syntactical analysis. For each word in that short sentence you have what part of speech it is and… |
Sequence 167Figure 11. Filth-year student using grammar symbols on a Latin text. passage. He asked me if r would write it for him on big… |
Sequence 168Pro1101111s Adverbs Co11ju11ctio11s Sepnrnte se11te11ces to trnnslnte: Latin to English; English to Latin N11111bers:… |
Sequence 169if you ever watched the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons.) The Wayback Machine can take you to old sites. It's a Jot of… |
Sequence 170head slightly titled. Some scientists now believe that Alexander suffered from a disorder called ocular torticollis. It may… |
Sequence 171buried in Alexandria. Eventually the story moves into the Byzantine times, so you have the Emperor Justinian and Empress… |
Sequence 172studying Alexander's symptoms think he may have had malaria or even West Nile virus. Figure 14 represents some of the… |
Sequence 173OTHER COMPONENTS The next component of this work is the model. We do have a miniature environment-pretty big actually, it… |
Sequence 174An important note here is that there is only one building on this model that we kept from year to year, and that is the… |
Sequence 175Figure 17. The Heptastadium. went up to allow ship traffic? Did it just stop the flow of water? How did they do that? So… |
Sequence 176drama. The older children perform it for the younger children, and it became a kind of initiation. You saw Apollonius doing… |
Sequence 177Figure 14. David Kahn, John Wyatt, Kathleen Allen. Alexandria was a center for embalming. Bodies were brought in from all… |
Sequence 178Harry Diakoff 172 The NAMTA Jo11ma/ • Vol. 34. No. 3 • Summer 2009 |
Sequence 179LANGUAGE TOOLS FOR STUDYING THE CLASSICS IN A MONTESSORI ENVIRONMENT by Harry Diakoff The Alpheios Project is a state-of-the… |
Sequence 180adequate tools for facilitating access to these fascinating studies, so that whenever the motivation arises it can be applied… |
Sequence 181run as extensions to the Firefox browser. This provides several ad- vantages. It is relatively easy for us to support versions… |
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Sequence 183that our tools should work anywhere on the web where they can find the right HTML format and the proper Unicode encoding of… |
Sequence 184Perseus Project for Greek <www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper />, this reading tool tries to show all the grammatical… |
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Sequence 187Once an alignment has been made, one can also choose an in- terlinear display (Figure 9). Sentence Diagrams Our most… |
Sequence 188such as automatic translation and syntactic parsing. Once we have created a million-word treebank manually, it should be… |
Sequence 189no ambition to really learn Greek, can also benefit from seeing the sentence structure so clearly exhibited, but it is… |
Sequence 190Key to Background Colors Focus word Word that focus word depends on Words that immediately depend on focus word Other words… |
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Sequence 192we would like the application to accommodate a variety of learning preferences, from someone for whom learning is entirely… |
Sequence 193A variety of other kinds of clues could be provided instead of links. For example, the user could be allowed to search for all… |
Sequence 194match a list of specific grammatical constructions-such as the genitive absolute-with highlighted passages in the text. Users… |
Sequence 195Pleue provkle th• following tnformation for ffTO~(t9pov: Pall of SpMcl1: noun Fonn: Tran1tatJon: citadrl the • "… |
Sequence 196nal composition. Either after she has identified the meaning from a parallel translation or directly from the original text,… |
Sequence 197• those who would prefertostudy a language throughreadjng texts of intrinsic interest versus those who want to master the… |
Sequence 198application to the user's special abilities and learning styles. For example, when creating the quizzes and reviews, it… |
Sequence 199We hope that attention to this sort of customization of the tools will make the classical languages much more accessible and… |
Sequence 200APPENDIX Outline: Montessori Elementary's Indirect Preparation for Learning Greek and Latin by Michael Gleason NoTE:… |
Sequence 201B. [Potentially included] New story: "Diversity and Unity of Languages-[n Search of Universal Communication"… |
Sequence 202part of speech amidst plain black text 3rd - Also see self-quiz tool for inflection tables of nouns 2nd b. Articles [(E)… |
Sequence 203part of speech amidst plain black text 3'd - Also see self-quiz tool for inflection tables of adjectives 2nd d. Noun,… |
Sequence 204tive Tables after Completion of Basic Syntax: Reflexive, Adjectival, Reciprocal, Demonstra- tive, Relative, Interrogative,… |