Latin for the New Millennium Level 2. (329 words)

 

 

 

 

 

Editor's Note: Designed for Latin students, A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone asks the learner to make a ready connection between an image and its corresponding Latin word label. Illustrated exercises provide an opportunity for students to practice with and internalize the Latin vocabulary. Fifteen chapters cover such topics from everyday Roman and contemporary life as the home, transportation, shopping, and the arts. 

 

DES: Please share with us how A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone came about.

 

 

DES: Discuss how your Latin teaching experience influenced the development of A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone.

 

 

DES: How is A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone structured? Which chapter(s) is/are your favorites? Why?

 

 

DES: In what classes or levels do you envision the A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone being used?

 

 

DES: How did you come to study the classics?

 

 

DES: What do you enjoy most in pursuing your interest in Latin and things Roman?

 

 

DES: What advice would you give someone starting out as a new Latin and/or Greek teacher?

 

 

 

Editor's Note: James W. Chochola taught Latin at Lane Tech College Preparatory High School in Chicago and at Oak Park-River Forest High School. He received a BA in Latin language and literature from Oberlin College, an MAT in Latin and classical humanities from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and an MA in school leadership from Concordia University Chicago. Chochola is the narrator of I Am Reading Latin Series CD (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004) and Latin Everywhere, Everyday Teacher's Manual Audio CD (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004).

 

NB: A sample lesson from A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone is provided in this issue's Resources & Teaching Tips section.

 

NB: A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone is scheduled to debut at the American Classical League Institute, June 29–July 1, 2017, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

Editors Don Sprague and Bridget Dean flew into sunny Toronto April 5 and made their way to Kitchener, Ontario, for the four-day CAMWS meeting. They were warmly welcomed by Tom Sienkewicz and given immediate access to the book room for set-up. They readily filled five tables with B-C books and learning materials and set up a half-sized table for the button display and "check-out" area. Tom had arranged for the food and drink, available throughout the conference, to be set up in the hall/foyer just outside the book room. The exhibit was ready for the evening's opening hours from 5:00 until 8:00 pm.

 

While traffic in the exhibit was slow on Wednesday night, it was steady the rest of the conference. Folks showed lots of interest in the new books, The Other Middle Ages, The Vulgate of Mark with the Synoptic Parallels, and Pliny the Younger, and eagerly entered the drawing that featured those titles. People were also very interested in the later Latin books, a variety of intermediate Latin readers, and the books geared to very young readers. Indeed, we sold all the copies of the Marie Bolchazy and Rose Williams "kiddie" texts. Button sales were brisk. All but a few of the Greek buttons sold. The CAMWS gathering saw the launch of the Festschrift Ab omni parte beatus: Classical Essays in Honor of James M. May.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ab omni parte beatus
Classical Essays in Honor of James M. May
ed. Anne H. Groton
xi + 374 pp., 2 illustrations (2017) 6” x 9”

Hardbound, ISBN 978-0-86516-843-5

 

That the influence and interests of Classics Professor James M. May extend well beyond his chosen areas of research and publication—Cicero, classical rhetoric, and Latin pedagogy—is amply illustrated in the Festschrift his professional colleagues and former students present in his honor: eighteen essays whose subjects range from the Homeric poems of the eighth century BCE to classical allusions in present-day winner of the Man Booker Prize. Contributors include Dean M. Apel, Marquis S. Berrey, Hilary J. Bouxsein, Christopher Brunelle, Gwendolyn L. Compton-Engle, Christopher P. Craig, Jane Webb Crawford, Robert N. Gaines, Anne H. Groton, Jon Hall, John F. Miller, Rick M. Newton, Sarah A. Nix, Terry L. Papillon, Steve Reece, Jon Solomon, Jennifer S. Starkey, Matthew C. Steenberg, Ann Vasaly, and Jakob Wisse.

 

James M. May is retiring professor of classics and Provost and Dean of the College at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where he has taught since 1977, after finishing his doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May received his BS Ed in Latin and English from Kent State University and his PhD in classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been the recipient of four NEH awards, the American Philological Association's Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics, and The Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award. He has served as Vice-President for Education for the American Philological Association and as Director of its Campus Advisory Service and as its Vice-President for Professional Matters. He has been the President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South and served as the Association's official orator from 2002 to 2017. He has published extensively in the fields of ancient rhetoric, pedagogy, and in particular Ciceronian oratory. He is coauthor (with Anne Groton) of Thirty-Eight Latin Stories (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, fifth edition, 1995), the author of Trials of Character: The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos (University of North Carolina Press, 1988) and A Cicero Reader: Selections from Five Essays and Four Speeches, with Five Letters (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012), coauthor (with Jakob Wisse) of Cicero: On the Ideal Orator (Oxford University Press, 2001), and editor of Brill's Companion to Cicero: Rhetoric and Oratory (Brill, 2002).

 

For one-time classroom use, we are pleased to provide this excerpt from Chapter 6 of A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone. Each chapter of this forthcoming book begins with a modern composite image or set of images followed by exercises and then the complementary image of the Roman equivalents and another set of exercises. What sets A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone apart is twofold: the labels placed directly on /beside the image and sets of exercises that require using the Latin vocabulary.

 

The New Yorker presents "How to Decode an Ancient Roman's Handwriting."