Euroclassica Review

All of us at Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers welcome you to the New Year and the new decade. May the critical work you do as teachers bring you great satisfaction. May your students enjoy their studies and meet their goals.

 

B-C President Bridget Dean and I enjoyed the opportunity to connect with colleagues, friends, and patrons at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in our nation’s capital at the start of the month. May the energy and sharing of that meeting inspire the semester before us.

 

We are pleased to have Professor Timothy Joseph of the College of the Holy Cross join us next month for a B-C webinar presentation on February 11, running 5:00 to 6:00 pm Central Time. Joseph’s webinar is titled “Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Living Tradition of Greek and Roman Texts.” Joseph’s talk will kick off the semester webinar schedule.

 

May I encourage you to take advantage of this month’s special discount? We believe William Sanders Scarborough’s First Lessons in Greek: A Facsimile of the 1881 First Edition merits a place in every classics classroom’s resource collection.

 

Lastly, at the risk of being accused of self-promotion, may I call your attention to the ROMA2020 Tour, an American Classical League centennial celebration special activity. Seats are filling fast, register now! If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. Tour co-leader Cindy Caltagirone and I met over the holidays to discuss the tour. We are very excited with such recent developments as the scheduled reopening of the Mausoleum of Augustus and the display of sculpture from the renowned Torlonia Family collection. Do join the tour!

 

Spring semester often brings reflections on textbook and other classroom needs. Please be reminded that your colleagues at Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers are available to chat with you one-on-one. Don’t hesitate to reach out to me at editordon@yahoo.com. If you want to learn more about Lumina for Artes Latinae or Lumina for Latin for the New Millennium, President Bridget Dean is always eager to do a one-on-one demonstration with you—bridget@bolchazy.com.

Quizizz is a free online tool that allows one to create multiple choice or true/false assessments. These are great formative assessment activities and provide immediate feedback to both the teacher and the student. The creation process is straightforward. You can start from scratch and write your own questions, import questions from existing “quizizz” activities, or upload a spreadsheet of questions. Quizizz offers a helpful template and instructions for the spreadsheet upload option. In addition to typing out questions, teachers can add an image or even a 10-second audio clip to the question. Answer choices can also contain images—this is a nice feature.

 

When you’ve finished creating the activity, you can play it with students in a few different ways. The activity can be assigned as homework with a due date and accessed via a link. Quizizz offers seamless integration with Google Classroom and many other LMS programs. Alternatively, you can use the activity live in the classroom with students working individually or in teams. In both the live and homework modes, gamification features make the activities fun. For example, there is always a leaderboard and students are rewarded with “power-ups” periodically. At the conclusion of the activity, the teacher has access to a clear and thorough report on student performance. Give it a try at www.quizizz.com.

The Washington Marriott Marquis in the District’s mid-city neighborhood drew some 2,500 classicists to the annual meeting of the Society of Classical Studies (SCS) and the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The program kicked off Thursday afternoon January 2nd and over the course of four days offered eighty-eight sessions devoted to SCS presentations and a parallel eighty-eight for archaeologists. From pedagogy to “white fragility” to “tessellated perspectives” and “monumental expressions of political identities,” presentations provided something for everyone.

 

Bridget Dean, PhD, president, and Don Sprague, editor, represented Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers at the meeting. A steady flow of folks stopping by booth 514–516—conveniently located by the poster board presentations and the round table area—kept Bridget and Don busy. They also enjoyed chatting with neighbors Anne and Tom Sienkewicz, who staffed the Classical Association of the Middle West (CAMWS) booth.

 

Editor Don Sprague guards the many treasures available

at the B-C exhibit at the AIA-SCS meeting.

 

The annual meeting provides an opportunity not only to display B-C’s titles but also for B-C’s representatives to speak one-on-one with instructors interested in a given title, to catch up with classicist friends, and to connect with B-C authors like BC Latin Reader authors Mary Jaeger and Victoria Pagán. For Bridget, the meeting is a special time to “reunion” with classmates with whom she pursued her doctorate at The Ohio State University.

 

The four days of exhibiting proved simultaneously draining, energizing, and inspiring. As B-C author (Why Vergil), former executive vice-president at Rockford University, and current associate professor of classical studies, Stephanie Quinn noted, “the profession is at an exciting point in its evolution and in a position so much better than when I was in graduate school.”

 

Congratulations to Chelsea Gardner, History and Classics Faculty at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia! She won three recent B-C titles:

They Said It First: The Wisdom of the Ancient Greeks and Romans,

The Latin of Science, and First Lessons in Greek.

Lingua Ignota performs at the Roadburn Festival, April 2019.

Photo courtesy of Creative Commons 4.0.

 

Lingua Ignota released its Caligula album in summer 2019.

 

Presenter: Timothy Joseph, Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross

Professor Joseph will share his recent research on the classical influence on the United States. His webinar will discuss the influence of the classics on Martin Luther King, Jr., as demonstrated in the civil rights leader’s speeches and writing.

  

Timothy Joseph graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a BA in Classics and then taught Latin at Cresskill Junior-Senior High School in New Jersey from 1998 to 2001. He went on to earn a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University in 2007. He joined the classics department at Holy Cross in 2006. He has served as department chair and as director of the Classical Association of New England’s Summer Institute at Brown University.

 

Joseph’s research concentrates on Latin historiography and epic poetry. He has published the book Tacitus the Epic Successor (Brill, 2012) and has contributed “Tacitus and Epic” to A Companion to Tacitus (Blackwell, 2012), “Cornelius Tacitus: Annals” to The Literary Encyclopedia (2013), and “Caesar in Vergil and Lucan” to The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar (Cambridge, 2017).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lumina online content offers new resources to support LNM, Levels 1 and 2. The interactive guided Language Fact sections provide immediate feedback to students as they preview or review each chapter of Latin for the New Millennium Level 1 or Level 2. Mouse-over vocabulary lists allow a new format for vocabulary mastery. Infinitely replayable crossword puzzles engage students in derivative work. Automatically graded quizzes free up student-teacher interaction time for translation, oral/aural work, discussion, and other learning activities. For a brief overview of the program, check out this video.

 

 

Lumina offers a revamped Artes Latinae. This fully interactive online program teaches all of Latin grammar in two courses. Purchase the program at a special discounted price of 25% off! For a brief overview of the program, check out this video.

Based on the program developed by Dr. Waldo E. Sweet of the University of Michigan for Encyclopedia Britannica, Lumina: Artes Latinae is an easy-to-follow course that includes all the tools a student needs to achieve a firm command of Latin. The course was carefully crafted and refined to suit the needs and abilities of a broad spectrum of students. Lumina: Artes Latinae meets existing foreign language requirements for high school graduation.

Contact us for an individual consultation on either program: bridget@bolchazy.com.

William Sanders Scarborough’s First Lessons in Greek:
A Facsimile of the 1881 First Edition
Foreword: Ward W. Briggs, Jr.
Introduction: Michele Valerie Ronnick
xiv + 187 pages, ISBN: 978-0-86516-863-3 $24.00 $14.40