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

 

 

As our nation plans its national day of Thanksgiving, all of us at Bolchazy-Carducci give you thanks.

 

We are grateful for the opportunity to serve you, your students, and the classics community. We are gratified by our classics colleagues who regularly visit our exhibit at conferences not only to examine our new titles but also to let us know how much they appreciate what Bolchazy-Carducci has done and does for the classics community.

 

We look forward to our ongoing collaboration!

 

For teachers looking for something special for a Thanksgiving lesson, we provide a lesson from Elizabeth Heimbach's Word Mastery through Derivatives: Designed for Students of Latin that we published this past August. See the "Teaching Tips & Resources" section. This month we're offering the special discount on classroom sets of this text.

 

For those of you attending the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language annual meeting in Nashville this week, be sure to check out the B-C booth. Friday afternoon it is my honor to collaborate with master teacher Dawn LaFon on a presentation about Latin for the New Millennium.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Texas Classical Association fall meeting, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, was well attended and offered teachers excellent presentations in several areas. Author Rose Williams represented Bolchazy-Carducci at the gathering that met October 27–28.

 

The engaging and informative presentations included Dr. Robert Cape's discussion on the use of storms in the writings of Caesar and Vergil. Andrew Simmons discussed singing among the military in ancient and modern times as a motivator in the face of danger and even as a counter influence against pain. Michael Skupin gave an interesting and amusing account of Hrotswitha's spin on affairs in the courts of Otto I, II, and III. In practical classroom matters Jeffrey Shoup gave an excellent and statistic-laced utilitarian argument for the value of classics in the schools, Rachel Clark demonstrated methods of differentiation in the Latin classroom, and Shawn and Miranda Jennings offered the group excellent advice about and patterns for Roman costume.

 

Laura Shaw presented "Reading the Margins of the Gallic War." She shared excellent material not only from Caesar but also from Cicero, Sallust, and Lucan on well-known Gallic tribes and individual Gauls. After all my years of working the De Bello Gallico, I did not know that Diviciacus had stayed in Rome as a guest of Cicero! Tara Sewell Lasater of the University of Houston talked about the Amazons, myth, and reality—how they lived in Scythia and fought beside and against men. She made compelling connections between the Amazons and such modern heroines as Xena and Wonder Woman. Nancy Llewellyn of Belmont Abbey College talked about the living Latin movement on Friday and delivered the keynote address "Electrify Your Latin Classroom with the Living Language" on Saturday. She had the group practicing the pluperfect subjunctive from a De Bello Gallico passage by substitution oral work.

 

Ryan Williams, who took a BA at the University of Mississippi and will complete an MA in classics at Texas Tech in May, won the Bolchazy-Carducci book drawing and took home a complete set of Latin for the New Millennium, Levels 1–3. He looks forward to teaching Latin. Williams gave a very good presentation, "The Sound of Latin," involving, among other things, giving students a paragraph and some extra words to plug in, in order to ask and answer questions.

 

Rose Williams

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Clauss, professor at the University of Washington, a graduate of the Jesuit Scranton Prep and University of Scranton, delivered the keynote presentation " 'Now my charms are all o'erthrown': Intertextuality and the Theme of Succession and Replacement in Clash of the Titans (1981)." Formal sharing sessions complemented the informal sessions over meals and socials. Talks included Nick Young (University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy) "Aeneid 2: Often Overlooked and Underappreciated," Becki Wick (Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL) "The Formation of Global Citizens through the Teaching of Classical Literature and History," and Elizabeth Olson Wise (Loyola Blakefield, MD) "The National Latin Spelling Bee."

 

 

 

Hosts Chabli Balcom and Serena Crosson gave attendees a comprehensive tour of the Brophy campus with special attention to the Office of Faith and Justice and to the Innovations Common. As the assembled Latin teachers experienced the school's impressive facilities, they learned about the school's various programs including a semester course in technology required of all freshmen. Balcom took great pride in explaining Brophy's "Loyola Academy" that welcomes students from underperforming schools to an intensive grade 6 to 8 program that provides students a foundation that prepares them for a college prep curriculum like Brophy's. Balcom teaches Latin to the 7th and 8th graders in the Academy.

 

Saturday saw participants gather in the Brophy chapel for a Latin Mass. The architecture evoked the Spanish mission tradition and the school’s pioneer-like beginnings when it was built in 1928 in the fields on what was then the outskirts of Phoenix. Director of Alumni Father Philip S. Postell, SJ, graciously welcomed the group and served as celebrant. Following Mass, a number of the group headed to the Heard Museum where they experienced an insightful tour of the highlights of the museum's collection of Native American art.

 

The group unanimously sang the colloquium's praises and expressed the desire that next time they needed more time!

 

 

At the start of this school year, I decided to use Magistrula.com to provide my students with additional practice opportunities for both forms and translation skills. I have been really pleased with how easy it is to use. Lots of different types of activities are beneficial either in class or as independent practice. The "lacunae” are a fun mad-lib style activity to use as a bell-ringer or warm-up. Cartoons that can be used to promote both oral and written skills. In my Latin 3 and 4 classes, we have been reviewing forms and important grammatical structures. Magistrula.com has been a great tool for this. I particularly like that, as the teacher, I can limit the practice to the specific forms or constructions that we are working on in class. So, if my students have not yet been introduced to a particular tense, mood, conjugation, etc., I can eliminate those from the practice. A teacher can create a teacher account and provide a code to students so that they can join the class. Then, it is simple to share an assignment with the class and to check for completion and accuracy. I really like that I can see how my students are doing as well as how much they are practicing. Magistrula.com is free but there is an option to make a donation to support the work. To get started, visit www.magistrula.com

Lynne West
Latin Teacher and Instructional Specialist
Bellarmine Jesuit College Prep
San Jose, CA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out these cool videos that demonstrate the reconstructed sounds of ancient Greece and ancient Gaul. 

 

While Pompeii receives megatons of attention, the Roman port city of Ostia and its remains are equally vital to our understanding of the Roman world and especially to our reconstruction of the late antique period. Recent work at the site makes it an even more appealing site to visit.

 

 

 

 

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