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

 

 

Wow! Here we are in the middle of November already! The flurry of the past few weeks has been punctuated by Bolchazy-Carducci representatives exhibiting at several classics conferences. Check out the reports about these meetings in this issue.

 

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This Thanksgiving season, all of us at Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers wish you and your families, your students and their families, a happy Thanksgiving. We thank you for the opportunity to serve you and the classics community.

 

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Google Arts and Culture is an excellent website that teachers can incorporate into their classes in various ways. It is a searchable online collection of very high quality images of art from more than 150 museums and sites worldwide. Thanks to the site’s high-resolution images, it is a great resource for teachers who are looking for images of particular works of art to show to students. But, it is far more than simply a database of images. Through its partnerships with so many fantastic museums, the Google Arts and Culture site offers the opportunity to do virtual walkthroughs of many collections. Our students can virtually visit the Capitoline Museum, the Uffizi Gallery, the Pergamon Museum, and the Acropolis Museum to name just a few. Some partnered museums also offer virtual reality tours that students can explore if they download the Google Arts and Culture app for iOS or Android. This feature is a nice supplement to our discussion and exploration of works of art.

In addition to virtually exploring some very beautiful museums, users can search the collection of images in really interesting ways. For example, if you would like to show your students some images related to the story of Daphne and Apollo, a quick search will yield numerous images each accompanied by a description and details. Even better, the students can perform the search and locate the images that they find compelling. The collection is also searchable by medium, time period, location, historical event, and historical figure. Both teachers and students can add individual images to their list of favorites and group them into personal collections. To take a look and get started, visit https://artsandculture.google.com/

 

Lynne West
Consultant
Sunodia Educational Consulting

Editor's Note: Open Culture has recently made a database of 600+ overlooked female artists from the 15th–19th centuries available.

As a complement to reading Ovid's "Apollo and Daphne," we offer this Latin selection with limited notes on the rape of Arethusa excerpted from An Ovid Reader: Selections from Seven Works by Carole E. Newlands. Depending on the level of the class, high school teachers may need to provide additional notes for their students as the BC Latin Readers are geared for intermediate college students. Alternatively, students can work in small groups to prepare notes and vocabulary for the passage.

Editor's Notes: The above PDFs are provided for classroom use only as downloaded by the eLitterae subscriber and are not to be otherwise copied or distributed.

At the invitation of the Wake Forest University, the 98th Anniversary Meeting of CAMWS-SS took place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at the Hawthorne Inn and Conference Center, October 18-20, 2018. President Bridget Dean and editor Amelia Wallace welcomed the opportunity to enjoy the warmth of the setting and southern hospitality.

 

Attendees came to the book exhibition room to browse B-C’s book selection and chat throughout all three days of the conference. Not surprisingly, our Latin and Greek buttons proved to be especially popular—while many professors and teachers noted that they were buying for students, they also frequently let slip that they were going to save a button or two for themselves! Our book drawing gave conference goers a chance to win two of B-C's recent titles, Word Mastery through Derivatives and A Latin Picture Dictionary. Anthony Parenti, graduate student at the University of Kentucky, came away the victor; his excitement and enthusiasm at winning (and about all things classics in general) was truly infectious.

 

In addition to running the B-C booth, Bridget and Amelia were able to sit in on several panel sessions, including the fascinating "Graphic Design: Text and Image in Ancient Inscription" and the informative "Teachers Teaching Teachers." They also attended the Friday night banquet, the highlight of which was incoming CAMWS-SS President David J. White's speech. White, of Baylor University, spoke broadly about contingent faculty, making insightful points about the importance of focusing on pedagogy and the need for collaboration between secondary teachers and university faculty. While dealing with a serious and at times difficult topic, White was nevertheless able to offer a hopeful message about the future of classics teaching.

 

Many thanks to Wake Forest University and especially to T. Davina McClain, whose careful planning and hard work as CAMWS-SS president ensured an excellent conference. We at B-C are looking forward to the next meeting in 2020 at Baylor University!

 

 

Skidmore College, host of this year's CAES Institute, welcomed some 60+ attendees for the two-day conference, October 26–27. While the weather in Saratoga Springs was wet and chilly, the New York classicists gave a warm welcome to editor Don Sprague, who staffed the Bolchazy-Carducci book exhibit. Indeed, the attendees presented Don with a chorus of "thank you" and "we're so pleased that you're here." Skidmore College, host of this year's CAES Institute, welcomed some 60+ attendees for the two-day conference, October 26–27. While the weather in Saratoga Springs was wet and chilly, the New York classicists gave a warm welcome to editor Don Sprague, who staffed the Bolchazy-Carducci book exhibit. Indeed, the attendees presented Don with a chorus of "thank you" and "we're so pleased that you're here."

Participants eagerly paged through titles newly released since B-C exhibited two years ago as well as tried and true titles. Teachers eagerly picked out their favorite Latin and Greek quotation buttons. By the end of the conference only a handful of buttons remained for sale. A Latin Picture Dictionary and the I Am Reading Latin and I Am Reading Latin Stories books proved big hits, as did the children's tales—Arbor Alma, Quomodo Invidiosulus nomine GRINCHUS Christi natalem Abrogaverit, and Ubi Fera Sunt.

The B-C exhibit was located in the atrium area alongside the wall of the room where the presentations took place. Fortunately, the podium was just the other side of a glass door, affording Don the opportunity to listen to the talks. Daniel Gallagher, former Latin secretary to Pope Benedict XV and Pope Francis, who now serves as the Ralph and Jeanne Kanders Associate Professor of the Practice in Latin, delivered the keynote address, "From Taedium to Studium, from Negotium to Otium: My Voyage Across the Sea of Latin," in which he shared his personal journey that started with his study of Latin as an adult. On Saturday, Professor Gallagher again wowed participants with two presentations—"Conversational Latin: It's Not What You Think It Is" and "Ossa: The Bones of Latin," an explication of the Reginald Foster method.

Congratulations to the CAES board and especially John Mooney, CAES president, for a successful institute that set an attendance record. Thanks to the Skidmore classics faculty and conference staff for all their work on behalf of the CAES Institute 2018!

 

 

 

Editor's Note: For more about Professor Gallagher, check out this interview.

The Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association (TFLTA) and the Tennessee Classical Association (TCA) held their annual meetings November 2–3 at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. The program offered over fifty talks and workshops covering a broad range of languages and topics. Several sessions provided information on Tennessee's new World Languages standards, while others highlighted professional growth opportunities for teachers of various languages.

 

Editor Laurel Draper served as the representative for the Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers exhibit. Visitors to the booth perused B-C's new titles, delighted at Latin translations of children's books such as Ubi Fera Sunt and Arbor Alma, and took informational folders for Latin for the New Millennium. Donald Mueller of Pellissippi State Community College won B-C's drawing for a set of four books: Word Mastery through Derivatives, Latin Picture Dictionary, and the new Lectiones Memorabiles Vols. III and IV.

 

Teachers chatted with Laurel about Latin for the New Millennium for possible adoption. The Tennessee Board of Education has formally approved all three levels of LNM for adoption. Previously, a review panel affirmed that the correlations for the three levels of LNM met Tennessee's new World Languages standards. B-C is pleased that LNM's Second Edition has been officially adopted. When LNM's First Edition came out in 2008, Tennessee was the first state to adopt the text. At the encouragement of several Tennessee Latin teachers, early adopters of LNM, B-C subsequently published Latin for the New Millennium, Level 3.

 

 

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Professor Nousek is a Caesar devotee who has extensively researched, presented on, and written about him. Her most recent delineated below focuses on Caesar as author. This webinar will be a great learning experience for all teachers of Caesar and especially those who shepherd their students through the AP Latin curriculum.

 

Debra L. Nousek is associate professor at The University of Western Ontario in Canada where she served as Director of the Graduate Program in the Classics. She earned a BA at the University of Alberta, an MA at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a PhD from Rutgers University.

Recognized internationally for his expertise and scholarship in medieval and Neo-Latin, Professor Tunberg will share his passion for post-antique Latin in this webinar. Tunberg will discuss representative examples of this beautiful bounty—twice as much Latin published in the post-antique period as during the Roman era—noting that many authors emulated the style of their Roman predecessors.

 

Terence Owen Tunberg is a professor in the Department of Classical Languages and teaches in the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky. Tunberg received a BA and MA in classics from the University of Southern California and a PhD from the University of Toronto.

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