Brag Fall 2021
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Students write a take-home assignment<br />
with 10 questions, each worth 10 LP, and<br />
a quiz with 10 questions, each worth<br />
10 LP. If they earn 90 LP in each, the total<br />
points earned is 180 LP, so they level up<br />
to Level 1. The next week, they only need<br />
another 20 LP to get to Level 2. It gets more<br />
complicated from there, as they learn<br />
more of the language and each level<br />
requires more LP.<br />
Structuring Latin assignments in this way<br />
has both pedagogical and entertainment<br />
value. It allows for absolute precision and<br />
objectivity, and students have found it<br />
more rewarding to earn points and levels<br />
as rewards for correct answers than to lose<br />
marks as penalties for wrong answers. It<br />
also makes learning more fun. This system<br />
has been successful with students year<br />
after year, especially with gamers, to the<br />
extent that now we refer to midterms as<br />
boss fights, and the final exam as the big<br />
boss at the end of the game.<br />
When the COVID-19 pandemic began,<br />
like many other courses, first-year Latin<br />
had to be taught remotely. But despite the<br />
challenges of trying to teach a language<br />
course without face-to-face interaction in<br />
the classroom, it has gone remarkably well<br />
because now the Latin course literally is a<br />
video game.<br />
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