Fabula Fabulosa: Writing and Illustrating a Latin story (1st and 2nd declension)

Students will use the provided template to write and illustrate their very own 6-sentence Latin story, focusing on nominative and accusative singular for 1st and 2nd declension nouns! With a limited set of available vocabulary to use in writing their story, students are challenged even more to flex their creative minds.

When everyone finishes, have the students share and translate each other's work! It's a wonderful way for your students to practice and showcase what they've learned while celebrating the collective creativity in your room.

Objective: Students will appropriately use the nominative and accusative cases (singular, 1st and 2nd declension) while practicing unit vocabulary in the context of a story.

This Fabula Fabulosa assignment accompanies the "How Latin Works" unit.

There is a black-and-white version and a color version for this assignment. You'll need to print a copy of the Fabula Fabulosa template for each student to use.

Includes a teacher's implementation guide and a completed story example!

Assignment requirements:

• The story's plot must have a beginning, middle, and end
• The story has to be 6 sentences long and use only familiar vocabulary
• Subjects, direct objects, and predicates are used appropriately
• Adjectives must match in case and gender with the noun they describe

Material covered:

• Vocabulary from the "How Latin Works" unit
• First declension: masculine and feminine nouns
• Second declension: masculine nouns, no neuters
• Nominative case, singular only
• Accusative case, singular only
• Third person, singular present verbs only
• Basic translation skills for sentences with an action verb (habet/amat/videt) or state of being verb (est)
• 2-1-2 adjectives are introduced