Colloquia familiara: a selection/Monitoria paedagogica: Questions about the text
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- Name three things the boy is told to do when addressed by someone of high status. What are three things he should not do?
- When the boy is required to speak, what does his teacher say specifically about his diction?
- What is the boy told to do when he passes a church?
- When he is offered food at a party, what should he do?
- Should he stay up late at the party?
- Does the boy live with his parents? How do you know? Where do you think he lives?
- What's your opinion about the teacher? Does he seem like a nice or an unkind person?
- What do you think of the lessons the boy is getting?
- Make up your own dialogue between a grownup and a child, where the grownup is trying to teach the child good manners (be sure to act out the expressions and gestures!)
- Make up your own dialogue between two children, talking about a lesson in manners they just got from their teacher.