Classics professors Adriana Brook of Lawrence University, Eric Dugdale of Gustavus Adolphus College, and John Gruber-Miller of Cornell College have collaborated on an updated version of the Society for Classical Studies resource Careers for Classicists: Undergraduate Edition. This is a great resource for high school teachers to share with students as they look to college studies as well as for college professors to share with their students.

Our Voices for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy
Congratulations to our colleagues at Our Voices for Classics Pedagogy for their successful inaugural conference. Click to learn more.

 

Professor Cabrera Ortega specializes in the influence of Greco-Roman literature on modern Hispanic culture and literature. In this webinar, he will share his insights on the adaptation of both Medea and Oedipus in a contemporary Latinx world.

 

Every student has the right to see themselves in their classroom, content, and context. This webinar will focus on ways that Latin teachers can bring multiculturalism into the classroom through choosing appropriate visuals, choosing authentic materials, and reconsidering the context of the Latin language.

 

We hope you and your families have adjusted successfully to the COVID-19 social restrictions and that your students and their families have also adjusted successfully.

 

All of us at Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers are in awe of our teacher colleagues who have proven to be incredibly dedicated, amazingly creative, and so indefatigable as they transformed their teaching to remote learning. Some had as few as twenty-four hours to do this. We laud those colleagues who stepped up and offered their assistance to those for whom this change was a bit daunting. We admire you and your students for your flexibility, patience, and resiliency. Kudos all around!

As noted below, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has gathered some special distance learning materials that we are happy to make complimentary. Do check them out.

As ever, we are committed to serving the needs of the classics community. Do not hesitate to reach out to us.

May we all be inspired by the flowers of spring! . . . until the dark clouds of this pandemic disperse.

Spring flowers along the front of the editor’s condominium building

bring color to these troubling times.

In response to school closures due to COVID-19, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is making a variety of materials available to the classics community in order to ease the transition to distance learning. Please see our new Distance Learning page to learn more about the digital products, including LUMINA for LNM for Level 1 and Level 2, that we are offering at no charge. Via this page, you can also freely access downloadable packets of fair use excerpts from our books as well as some fun mythology-related activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

This month, I am focusing my tech tip on a tool that I think can be of particular help as teachers adjust to distance learning. Reading and interacting with texts is a critical component of our Latin classes. Many classes, particularly at the upper levels, focus on nurturing a student’s ability to understand, critique, discuss, and connect with classical texts. Hypothes.is is a digital annotation and social reading tool that can help us move this work into the realm of online teaching and learning. Hypothes.is is available as a browser extension to Google Chrome, a bookmarklet to any other browser, or as a fully integrated add-on to a number of learning management systems (Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, and Moodle among others). Currently, Hypothes.is is waiving the fees ordinarily associated with the LMS integrations.

 

For me, the quickest way to get started was to create a free account and download the Google Chrome extension. With an account and extension, the user can then navigate to any website and begin adding annotations and highlights. This means that any text on the Latin Library can become home to annotations. Hypothes.is also works with hosted PDF documents, so the PDFs that Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has made available on its Distance Learning page can also accept annotations. The power of Hypothes.is is really the social element that it offers. To take advantage of this, a teacher can set up a private group and share the group link with students. Students will need to set up their own accounts and then access the group link to view materials shared to the group. Then, members of the group can view the annotations of their teacher and those of other group members as well as add their own notes. Teachers can prepare an authentic text from the Latin Library by annotating challenging phrases with hints and posing comprehension questions. Then, they can share the text with a group of students and ask students to read the text and add their own annotations. Student annotations might focus on meaning-making, connecting with and reacting to the text, and posing reflective questions. Teachers might also instruct students to enrich the passage by adding an image to an annotation and responding to a question posed by a classmate. To give it a try, start by visiting https://web.hypothes.is/education/. 

 

Lynne West
Consultant

Martia Dementia 2020 has come to a close with Alexander the Great crowned as champion. Read our blog recap for the full results, a roster of winning participants, and some words of wisdom from third place winner, Latin teacher Evelyn Beckman.

Thanks to Schola Latinae for this pertinent directive presented in Latin.

Thanks to Caitlin Clerkin, graduate student in archaeology at the
University of Michigan, who shared these classical sardines
found at the Kasao African Market in Ann Arbor.

Excavations in Don Sprague’s home office uncovered this clever advertisement from 2005. The advertisement’s main pitch text reads:
The ancient Greeks worshipped the fig and used it for energy during training. Pretty smart for a bunch of guys who wore sheets.

Monmouth College Professor of Classics Emeritus Thomas Sienkewicz shared this timely cartoon from the Bleibel Daily Star of Beirut, Lebanon.

Editor’s Note: Counselors suggest teachers exert caution when assigning readings related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, all of us need to be careful about COVID-19 information overload and its deleterious effects.

 

 
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