Brian Serwicki

Questions on the 1997 Disney animated film, Hercules.

This bundle includes all vocabulary quizzes and word study exercises that are available as of 12/1/19.

Quizzes test stage vocabulary by embedding approximately 10 words from each half (first and second) of the checklist into 3 sentences per quiz. Students are therefore assessed by having to translate words in context with inflection as they would see it in literature. Word study worksheets are also included for each stage.

Questions to go along with Pompeii The Last Day, 2003 from the BBC.

Questions to go along with the viewing of the Hadestown musical

Quizzes test stage vocabulary by embedding approximately 10 words from each half (first and second) of the checklist into 3 sentences per quiz. Students are therefore assessed by having to translate words in context with inflection as they would see it in literature. Word study worksheets are also included for each stage.

Questions on The History Channel’s Warrior Queen Boudicca, 2008.

A PowerPoint that covers Egyptian History from 3,000 BC to Cleopatra VII. A note packet and audio recording are also available.

This contains the PowerPoint, Note Packet, and Audio Lecture on Egyptian History.

This outline helps students plan to reciprocally teach a lesson to the class. It focuses on students teaching Part of Petronius’s Satyricon connected to a PowerPoint called “Two Ghost Stories”. However, it could be used for any lesson and any subject.

Questions on the Discovery Channel’s Expansion and Conquest Episode on the Punic Wars.

This is a note packet to go with the Egyptian History PowerPoint. It is in outline form. An audio lecture is also available.

Questions on the YouTube Video “Roman Army Structure” by Vindolanda Museum, 2016.

Instructions on how to write a persuasive speech using Classical oratory and rhetoric.

This is the audio lecture that goes along with the Egyptian History PowerPoint and note sheet.

This is a question sheet to go with the Escape from Pompeii Choose your Adventure Story Maze PowerPoint. It can be used while students are negotiating the story or after as a check for understanding. It encourages students to go through the story more than once and make different choices.

These vocabulary quizzes break up the vocabulary words at the end of each stage into three sentences. Approximately 10 vocabulary words are embedded into the three sentences so that students are quizzed on the words in context, seeing the words as they appear in readings with inflected endings. The stage checklists are divided into 1st half and 2nd half so that on one quiz, students are asked to study approximately the first half of the stage checklist for the 1st half quiz, and the second half

This is a question worksheet for students to answer questions based on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. It was specifically designed for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2012 production which is available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. However, it can be easily modified to suit any particular production. The idea can also be used as a template to creat question sheets for any viewing of a Shakespeare play.

A PowerPoint Story Maze (Choose Your Own Ending) to teach about the origins of Halloween.

This is my translation of “A Christmas Story” about Ralph and his desire for a Red Ryder BB Gun. It is 14 paragraphs meant as an easy Latin reading for high school students. Follow up questions are included.