Who Would Say This? - 1st singular practice

As I have posted earlier, I am teaching Latin 1 this year. Although I did teach this level last year, that was after a 7-year hiatus (since I primarily taught Latin 2 and 3 then), and I was still trying to get back into teaching truly novice learners, i.e., I felt really rusty in what to do and in what order. Plus, in that time, I had grown a great deal as CI/ADI teacher, in addition to learning much about what are realistic expectations of language proficiency at various levels a' la ACTFL (and I had it wrong!)

One of the major changes which I have been implementing in Latin 1 is truly sheltering vocabulary by focusing on high-frequency words and basing my curriculum solely on clip chats (formerly known as "movie talks") - doing a curriculum centered around clip chats has been my dream, and I am loving it!! As a result of this, I slowly began to introduce first person singular forms in the clip chats as part of the dialogue but not target it per se. 

I did Take Me Home as a clip chat with the goal of introducing sum (I am) and volo (I want) as isolated vocabulary words and not in a full conjugation chart (with the goal of these words eventually becoming sight words for students through repeated exposure and interaction), so as a post-reading activity, I then did a variation of the "Which Character Would Say This?". Essentially I just turned much of the narration into 1st person statements and typed out a series of statements onto a document where students wrote which character would say that. Note the target words from the clip chat to establish meaning for those students who need it.

Observations

1. This is very low level in terms of reading and writing, since it is just copying. However, this does possess a higher level of depth of knowledge since students are having to analyze the statement in terms of who would say this.
2. I used this post-reading activity to reinforce pop-up grammar timeouts and horizontal conjugations, but by no means did I expect students to acquire/master 1st person singular forms because of this. Nor was the goal of acquiring this structure even on the radar! While I can expose students to this structure and learners can interact with this, I cannot force nor speed up the acquisition process - students will acquire it when they acquire it on their own timeline.
3. Note the establishment of meaning at the top as an aid. If the term differentiation is a buzzword in your school, this is a great way to demonstrate it - establishing meaning serves as a support for all students who may need it (or not) during a lesson.