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Complimentary Gift for the First Twenty
Teachers!
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How Your School Can Use the NCEE to Improve Its SAT Scores
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Fifty multiple choice questions Latin and Greek Derivatives Online (http://www.quia.com/quiz/2930643.html) Forty-five minutes Can be given any day in November, and
at different times during the day Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals are
awarded, along with downloadable certificates
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Large suburb north of Atlanta, Georgia One of twenty high schools in its district 2300 students Upper middle class Four foreign languages (Latin, French,
German, Spanish) Very large AP school-wide program First or Second in the district in all
academic areas except SAT score
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Thirty-nine NGHS Latin III students took the NCEE on November 26th, 2010.
Many of these students took the SAT on December 4th.
Seventeen won awards on the NCEE. Those who took the SAT reported
that their recently acquired knowledge from the NCEE helped them on five-ten questions.
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25-30% of the testing population (125-150 students) can put an academic achievement on their college applications
SAT Verbal/Writing scores will rise by 20-30 points on average, with some gains as much as twice that
Latin Propaganda
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Language Arts students study Latin and Greek roots August 8th-November 3rd.
LA students take the National Classical Etymology Exam on November 4th.
LA students take the SAT immediately thereafter, on November 5th.
NGHS testing population benefits from the added study (twenty-thirty points on SAT).
NGHS SAT scores improve / NGHS WSA score improves.
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Complement the LA vocabulary/root study already in
place, NOT add to an already packed LA calendar.
Teach roots, rather than words Teach word construction, rather
than deconstruction Teach efficiently
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Twenty words of unrelated meaning are introduced in a list (each week or
so) Differentiated activities reinforce the
meaning of these twenty words (contextual fill-in-the-blank, synonyms, etc.)
At the end of each unit, students have learned fifteen-twenty words to proficiency
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Lists of related root prefixes, infixes, and suffixes are introduced
Students observe and define English words that are based on these roots
Lists that can number into the dozens off of just a few roots
For example:
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e/ex = out of, from (export) in = in, into; on; not (import) de = down, from, away (deport) re = back, again; anew (report) con/co = together, with (conscript) ad = to, towards, near (ascribe) per = through, badly (pervasive) cap/cip/capt/cept = take
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except, exception incapable, incapacitate, inception, incipient deceive, deceit, deceptive, deception receipt, receive, reception, receptacle conceit, conceive, concept, conception, accept, acceptance, acceptable perceive, perceptive, perception
What other language features are apparent?
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LA Teachers don’t need more to planScripted lesson plans, support from the friendly local Latin Teacher, and online quizzesLA Teachers don’t want their instruction interruptedMake lessons efficient and briefLA Teachers and the whole school need to “buy in” to the initiativeMeetings, meetings, sell, sellDaily announcements and emailsFind Funding ($3/student + school fee)
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- A root is given (with examples) over the announcements each day.
- LA classes reinforce that root briefly in class each day
- On Fridays, LA teachers reinforce the week’s total of roots briefly
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- Two weeks prior to the test, LA teachers increase instructional focus on roots (Start-Up, Bell Ringer, Warm-Down, etc.)
- Monday through Thursday before the test, all LA instruction is focused on Latin and Greek roots study
- The Exam is taken on Friday - The SAT is taken on Saturday
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Pre-Planning: Discuss with LA Leads August: LA Leads discuss with LA dept. and
counselors discuss SAT registration September (first week): Students register for
SAT (at home school) and reserve computer labs for the NCEE
October 3rd: Register students for the NCEE Week of Exam: Implement Instructional
Calendar and train staff for NCEE Nov. 4th: NCEE (SAT the next day)
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Motivation to earn a better score on the SAT
Motivation to earn an award for college application
Economy of effort Brief period of focus No threat of failure on the NCEE
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Follow Curriculum “A” or a modified version?
What grade level do we test? Do we test all students in the grade or
only certain sections? What materials do we use? How do we pay for this? How do we encourage SAT
registration?
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550 12th Grade Students Took the NCEE 220 Earned Medals About 200 12th Graders took the
November SAT About 160 12th Graders took the
November SAT AND had taken a previous SAT
(for comparison)….
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On average, those 160 students increased their SAT Verbal/Written scores 26 points
The students of the LA teacher who “bought in” the most raised their scores by 40 points
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