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LeaAnn A. Osburn, Executive Editor
Andrew Reinhard, Managing Editor Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers www.BOLCHAZY.com eclassics.ning.com Number 70, Nov/Dec 2009 |
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Dear eLitterae Readers,
Happy Thanksgiving! With the cooking done and the large meal consumed, let’s not forget to give thanks for all that makes our profession one is that is growing and thriving. Let’s give thanks for all the hard work, perseverance, and creativity of Latin and Greek teachers, instructors, and professors. Let’s give thanks for growing enrollment numbers and all that our students bring to our classrooms. Let’s give thanks for the explosion of eLearning materials that help us and our students. For example, in this issue see the list of applications currently available at iPodius and the descriptions of online vocabulary tools. Let’s give thanks for new educational materials in print format and for those who try them out, who inquire about issues related to these materials (see the question and answer article in this issue), and who suggest ways to bring them more closely into the learning process of students (see David Murphy’s Legamus Reader Teacher’s Guide request in this issue). And let’s give thanks for supplementary learning opportunities such as the Latin for the New Millennium European Tour as detailed below. These are the signs of a vibrant and prosperous profession.
LeaAnn A. Osburn
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Latin for the New Millennium Teachers Tour 2010!
Mark your calendar for July 6-17. Psyche yourself up for a fantastic teacher learning adventure. Join LNM editor Don Sprague for an exploration of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul—northern Italy and Provence—places rich in classical associations and Roman remains. Enrich your own understanding of LNM and Latin through the ages. Take your own photographs to enhance your classes and inspire your students with that special enthusiasm and firsthand knowledge that travel provides.
In Italy, the tour will include Lorenzo Valla’s Pavia, the Etruscans’ Piacenza, the medieval university of Bologna, the early Christian and Ostrogoth sites of Ravenna and Padua, where Vesalius and Copernicus studied and Galileo taught; Catullus’ Verona and Sirmio; Vergil’s Mantua; Columbus’ Genoa. Following the Roman route to Provence, we’ll drive along the Italian Riviera to the Trophee des Alpes, tribute to Augustus. The stunning Roman remains of Provence include the baths and amphitheater of Nice, the majestic Pont du Gard, the aqueducts and water-driven mill of Bebergal, the town of Glanum, Arles with its fabulous museum and amphitheater, the Maison Caree of Nimes, and Orange’s triumphal arch and spectacular theater. We’ll also visit Avignon and Entremont, a pre-Roman Gallic settlement.
Your tour will evoke Hannibal, Caesar, Augustus, Catullus, Vergil, Livy, Boethius, Petrarch, Valla, Copernicus and so many more. Prior to departure, each participant will receive a detailed itinerary correlated to LNM Levels 1&2. Site visits will include teaching tips and making connections to the LNM curriculum. You’ll return home eager to enrich your lesson plans and enthused to start school.
This tour has been specially designed to complement Bolchazy-Carducci’s groundbreaking Latin for the New Millennium. Priority will be given to LNM teachers and their companion. The group will enjoy travel on its own air-conditioned motor coach and will stay at first class, air-conditioned hotels. For those who love good food and/or good wine, the cuisine of Provence and Northern Italy will be a delightful treat.
For over thirty years Sprague has led high school students and adult learners to classical sites throughout Europe. He developed and directed a month’s study tour of Italy and Greece. His adult tours have included Turkey, Greece, Italy, Sicily, France, England, Spain, and Portugal. Tourcrafter Sprague has customized this learning adventure to complement and enhance the Latin for the New Millennium curriculum. Sprague looks forward to serving as tour leader and sharing his love for travel, for the classical world, and for LNM.
To put yourself on the mailing list for the detailed itinerary and other tour specifics, please email dsprague@bolchazy.com. Participation will be on a first come, first served basis. To maximize the experience and value, the tour is envisioned as a group of twenty.
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Questions and Answers about
Latin for the New Millennium LeaAnn Osburn, Series Editor Several questions about Latin for the New Millennium have been posted on the Latinteach discussion list, sent to the Bolchazy-Carducci office, and asked at conferences. I hope these answers will clear up the issues. Revised Exercises in the Latin for the New Millennium,
Level 1 Reprint Two exercises in each chapter of LNM 1 were revised for the first reprinting of the book in order to provide more vocabulary repetition for students. Thus teachers have asked about how to proceed if some students in the same classroom have the first edition of LNM 1 and others have the first reprint. The optimal situation, of course, would be if all students in a given class had the same book. Since we recognized early on that this would not always be possible, the revised exercises were posted in the Teachers’ Lounge on the LNM website at http://newmillatin.ning.com. We recommend that teachers download and print the exercise revisions and provide each student in the class with a copy of this document. In this way, whenever the teacher chooses to do an exercise with the class or to assign one as in-class work or as homework, the students, no matter which textbook they have, may be instructed to use only the copy of the exercise revisions and not to use the exercises printed in the book. This will prevent any confusion. An added advantage for the students is the ability to write the exercise answers on the copy—something most teachers would not allow students to do in their textbook.
Reading Passages in Latin for the New Millennium
A few teachers have asked how to provide their students with more reading passages for LNM Level 1. Although there is one major reading passage per chapter in LNM, there are reading passages in some of the exercises within the chapters in the Student Textbook and, in addition, there is at least one more reading passage in each chapter of the LNM workbook. Five of these workbook reading passages come with comprehension questions. This downloadable document can be found in the LNM Teachers’ Lounge at http://newmillatin.ning.com. The conversation at the end of each chapter in the Student Textbook is de facto another reading passage, and after the dictation exercise from the Teacher’s Manual has been completed, this can be still another reading passage. We think that these five reading passages are sufficient, but if some teachers want still more passages or would like some variety in the readings, there are some passages posted in the LNM Teachers’ Lounge.
Changing from a Different Series to Latin for the New Millennium in Level 2
Teachers have inquired about the best way to use LNM 2 with a level 2 class that learned out of another series’ level 1 textbook. We feel that the most sound pedagogical method is to teach a level 2 class out of whatever series was used in level 1 and thus to phase in level 2 of LNM. Sometimes, however, school, district, or state policies prevent the teacher from phasing in a textbook. In this situation we recommend the following:
If you have other questions about Latin for the New Millennium, please post them in the teacher’s lounge at http://newmillatin.ning.com, and they either will be answered or resolved.
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iPodius is the new digital download store for Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. Download digital audio, video, and software for iPhones, iPods, MP3 players, Macs, and PCs by visiting http://ipodius.bolchazy.com. We have MP3 files available for all of our CDs. Download a handful of tracks or an entire album to build audio curricula in support of what your classes are reading. Software and MP4 videos are available, too, as is access to password-protected sites to help your students practice their Latin grammar.
Here is the complete listing of all that is currently available for purchase on iPodius:
Latin for the New Millennium digital flashcards for Levels 1 and 2 [for iPhone/iPod]
Latin for the New Millennium interactive workbooks for Levels 1 and 2 [for iPhone/iPod]
Wheelock’s Latin digital flashcards [for iPhone/iPod]
AP Vergil digital flashcards [for iPhone/iPod]
Latin Proverbs [iPhone/iPod touch]
The Living Voice of Greek and Latin Literature (includes the unabridged Iliad, Odyssey, and dozens of other plays, orations, poems, and more) [MP3]
Latin Aloud (101 selections from Vergil, Catullus, Cicero, Ovid, and Horace) [MP3]
Carmina Popularia [MP3]
O Abies [MP3]
Rome’s Golden Poets [MP3]
Resonantia Tatrae [MP3]
Review Latin Verbs [Mac/PC]
Looking at Latin Online [subscription website for grammar practice]
I Am Reading Latin Stories [MP4 podbooks for iPhone/iPod]
New products are added regularly. Enhance your classes with these digital offerings of audio, video, and software from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers via iPodius at http://ipodius.bolchazy.com.
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Andrew Reinhard, Director of eLearning
There are many online Latin vocabulary tools to assist readers of Latin who require some help with a sticky word, phrase, or passage. Here are three of the best:
• William Whitaker’s Words (http://archives.nd.edu/words.html): Hosted by the University of Notre Dame, this online translation tool allows one to translate a Latin word or phrase into English, or an English word into Latin. One can even choose what part of speech to translate (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or preposition) for words that could possibly be either a noun or verb, etc. Students and teachers should know that the definitions in the 30,000+ word lexicon can occasionally be “interesting” or unique to this service. Some teachers can spot students whom have used Whitaker’s Words based on the student’s translation.
• NoDictionaries (http://nodictionaries.com): Lee Butterman, recently of Brown University, has created an online reading tool that combines the Latin passages from the Latin Library (or any other Latin a visitor chooses to paste in to a text panel) with vocabulary from Whitaker’s Words. Readers can look up words in a passage with a single click. This saves readers the time of looking something up in a traditional dictionary and can improve reading speed by as much as fifty percent. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is partnering with NoDictionaries.com in support of Latin for the New Millennium. Look for a feature article about this partnership in the December 2009 eLitterae.
• Glossa (http://athirdway.com): Clint Hagen, Latin teacher at St. Andrew’s School in Austin, Texas, and founder of A Third Way, created a new online Latin dictionary, Glossa, based on the dictionary by Lewis & Short. The website declares:
“Glossa combines a unique interface with a commitment to full exploration of a Latin word's possible meanings. The type-ahead suggest feature allows words to be found easily as you type, and the database gives you full definitions of words, including examples from Latin literature and etymologies. The sidebar shows you where you are in the dictionary, giving you the ten words before the current entry and the ten words after.”
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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers also invites its eLitterae subscribers to take advantage of a 20%, single-copy discount on Vergil: A Legamus Transitional Reader, by LeaAnn A. Osburn and Thomas J. Sienkewicz
Vergil: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader
xxvi + 136 pp (2004) Paperback ISBN 978-0-86516-578-6 $35.00 $28.00 One copy, prepaid, no returns, not available to distributors. Offer expires 12/31/09.
Make sure you mention that you are an eLitterae subscriber if you place your order by phone or fax. If you place your order via the Bolchazy-Carducci web site at www.BOLCHAZY.com, your discount price will be relfected in your online invoice.
Visit our Holiday Shop for discounts on selected titles.
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eLitterae Addition
Apologies to David Murphy for leaving out his request for "Student Work" to be showcased in the forthcoming LEGAMUS Transitional Readers Teacher's Guides.
Showcase Your Student’s WorkOur LEGAMUS Transitional Reader authors are busy at work developing teacher guides for each of the author texts. David Murphy is soliciting student submissions to be published as sample exemplary essays for the Horace reader. So, if your students have written essays for the last question about Odes 1.5 on p. 71 or for the last question about Odes 2.10, p. 117, and you would like the essay to be considered for publication, please email them to mailto:dsprague@bolchazy.com by December 14. Before publishing the two sample essays, we will ask you to assist us in obtaining written parental permission to do so.
In a Legamus-related aside, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers currently has a Caesar Legamus title in development to deliver in time for the implementation of the new AP Latin curriculum.
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See the Bolchazy-Carducci web site for classroom tips on teaching Catullus and on using children's books translated into Latin, Christmas carols in Latin, and Latin proverbs to teach grammar. In the search box, type "teaching tips" to see all that are available (click on a title to view and click on the teaching tip link).
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