Extra credit and how to find it

Many students come to me frustrated with my standing extra credit offer or unacceptable material.  Here's an easy way to find some: Keep up with the news.  E.g. (exempla gratis just in case you were curious) It's no secret that National Public Radio is my chosen news source, but you do not need to be an info junkie like me.  Here are two blog posts/articles posted to my Facebook feed in the last two weeks.  I didn't even have to listen!

Boo!  Chinese and European Monsters...

Linnaeus Shlinnaeus!

So, you could follow Fox, CNN, NBC, Reuters or any other reputable news source and find stuff.  Even if you don't use Facebook, you could just check every day for a news item.  Another hint I'll give you is that these kinds of articles will be small, and usually off to the side instead of being the big splashy article you see when you first load the page.

Closer to home is the free weekly Independent.  Here is the political cartoon from this week, oh look!  A reference to Hannibal crossing the Alps.  So, believe me, it's out there.

Homework for 2 November, 2010

Latin 1--Design your own Roman style tomb and remember to flip the Death figure with the Trickster figure on your project.

Latin 2--Scale wall cheat sheet.

Homework for 1 November, 2010

Latin 1--Organize your notes on the fourteen dii consentes!
Also, flip the due dates for the Trickster and Death figures in your project outlines.

Latin 2--What would you have for a cheat-sheet on the wall?  Third period has nouns, fifth has verbs.

Remember, you have one week from quiz passback to turn in corrections...  This could save a lot of grief later on for some.