Teacher’s Guide to the Mostellaria

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This comprehensive teacher’s guide to the Mostellaria includes prereading and postreading activities designed to facilitate reading comprehension, make cultural connections, develop reading fluency when reading aloud, and discuss characters in Latin. Each act has prereading and postreading activities that use comprehensible input strategies. You will receive the complete guide as an editable word document. Although these activities are available for free at this link, I appreciate you supporting me in my writing and curriculum development.

Here’s the complete index of activities for the teacher’s guide to the Mostellaria:

• GETTING STARTED
• Plautus’ Life and Corpus of Writing
• Lectiō: Vīta Plautī
• Roganda Vīta Plautī
• Roman Theater Preteaching Videos
• Roganda: Magister Craft’s Theātrum Rōmānum
• ACTUS I, SCAENA I
• Teacher’s Notes for Scaena I
• Preteaching Activities for Scaena I
• Vocabulary to Preteach for Scaena I
• Discussion Questions
• Movie Talk: Best/Worst Dinner
• Caepae Olent
• Quomodo Saccus Olet?
• Laying Out the Stage
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Scaena I
• Postreading Activities for Scaena I
• Reread the Scene Together:
• Food Fight:
• Compare and Contrast Characters:
• Predicting the Future:
• ACTUS I, SCAENA II
• Teacher’s Notes for Scaena II
• Preteaching Activities for Scaena II
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena II
• The Quam + Adjective Student
• Discussion Questions:
• Quis est Buccō?
• Vae Nōbīs
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Scaena II
• Postreading Activities
• Review Predictions:
• Bombax Reread:
• Bucco’s Acting Contest:
• Writing a Dialogue Between Bucco and Priscus:
• ACTUS I, SCAENA III
• Teacher’s Notes for Scaena III
• Preteaching Activities for Scaena III
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena III
• Quaesō, Do Me a Favor
• A Rose By Any Other Name… Would Not Smell as Sweet
• Dictatio
• Lectiō: Nūptiae Rōmānae
• Roganda: Nūptiae Rōmanae
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Scaena III
• Postreading Activities
• Write a Letter:
• Six-Panel Comic:
• Acting the Scene Out:
• Do Bucco and Flora Really Love Each Other?
• ACTUS I, SCAENA IV
• Teacher’s Notes for Scaena IV
• Prereading Activities for Scaena IV
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena III
• Periī Genre-Writing Activity
• OWATS: One Word at a Time Story
• Prereading Extension Activity
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus I, Scaena IV
• Postreading Activities for Actus I, Scaena IV
• Choral Reading:
• Comparing and Contrasting Characters:
• Acting Out the Scene:
• Dear Diary:
• ACTUS II, SCAENA I
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus II, Scaena I
• Preteaching Activities for Scaena I
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena I
• Vae nōbīs! Prīscus revēnit! Quid Dolus Optimus Est? Jigsaw Activity
• Regula Domi Prisci: Noli agere omnia!
• Quid Est Hoc? Clavis Laconica est!
• Enrichment Activity: Scholarly Article about Ancient Keys and Locks
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus II, Scaena I
• Postreading Activities for Actus II, Scaena I
• The Golden Laconian Key Award
• Who Can be the Most Bucco Bucco?
• The Lost Letter
• Character Drawing & Plot Reflections
• Enrichment Activity: Read a Scholarly Article about Plautus’ Mostellaria
• ACTUS II, SCAENA II
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus II, Scaena II
• Preteaching Activities for Scaena II
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena II
• Vae Tibi—Quid Tetigisti?
• Prereading Discussion Questions
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus II, Scaena I
• Postreading Activities for Actus II, Scaena II
• Six-Panel Comic of the Scene
• Postreading Discussion Questions
• Thinking on the Fly
• Like Father, Like Son
• ACTUS III, SCAENA I
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus III, Scaena I
• Preteaching Activities for Scaena I
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena I
• Sttt, Sēcrētum Est!
• One-Word Picture: Lurco
• Dictatio
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus III, Scaena I
• Postreading Activities for Actus III, Scaena I
• Draw 1-2-3
• Quālem Domum Prīscus Emere Velit?
• Asking for Money: How Does Bucco Get the Loan Anyway?
• Vicini Nostri: Our Neighbors
• ACTUS III, SCAENA II
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus III, Scaena II
• Preteaching Activities for Scaena II
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena II
• Vocabulary Discussion: Balnea
• Picture Talk: Roman Mosaics
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus III, Scaena II
• Postreading Activities for Actus III, Scaena II
• Discussion: How Will this Trick Fall Apart? Make a prediction.
• Speed Reading
• Act Out the Scene
• Draw a Mosaic
• ACTUS IV, SCAENA I
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus IV, Scaena I
• Preteaching Activities for Scaena I
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena I
• Quis Rutilus Erat? 97
• Parasītī, Poētae, et Cēnae 99
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus VI, Scaena I
• Postreading Activities for Actus IV, Scaena I
• Discussion Questions
• Invitation to Dinner!
• ACTUS IV, SCAENA II
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus IV, Scaena II
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena II
• Preteaching Activities for Actus IV, Scaena II
• Quis Hoc Diceret?
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus IV, Scaena II
• Postreading Activities for Actus IV, Scaena II
• Read, Write, Draw, Pass
• ACTUS IV, SCAENA III
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus IV, Scaena III
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena III
• Preteaching Activity
• Team Predictions: The Trick Unravels
• Reading Comprehension Questions
• Postreading Activities for Actus IV, Scaena III
• Review Predictions
• Desistite! How Many Times Are You Going to Ask?
• Prose Perspective Rewrite
• Priscus Confusissimus
• ACTUS IV, SCAENA IV
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus IV, Scaena IV
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena IV
• Preteaching Activity
• Dictatio for Scaena IV
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus IV, Scaena IV
• Postreading Activities
• Comic Strip It
• Qualis Amicus Est Simo?
• ACTUS V, SCAENA I
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus V, Scaena I
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena I
• Preteaching Activities
• Putting Characters Into a Box: Character Review
• What Have They Been Doing Anyway?
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus V, Scaena I
• Postreading Activities
• Draw 1-2-3
• Who Loves Whom?
• Postreading Discussion Questions
• ACTUS V, SCAENA II
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus V, Scaena II
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena II
• Preteaching Activity
• Quid Tu Sacrifabis ad Aram?
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus V, Scaena II
• Postreading Activities
• Ara Amica Est!
• Micrologue
• ACTUS V, SCAENA III
• Teacher’s Notes for Actus V, Scaena III
• Vocabulary and Phrases to Preteach for Scaena III
• Preteaching Activity
• Comic Preview
• Story Listening
• Reading Comprehension Questions for Actus V, Scaena III
• Postreading Activities
• Duh – Act It Out!
• Audition for Roles: Interpersonal Presentation
• Celebrate with a Staging of the Play for Latin Club
• Celebrate with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum: Possible Extension