Latin is fucking cool. click the readmore if you wanna learn some. :DDDD also disclaimer not a latin teacher, rather a high school student not gonna b great at this lol
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Latin is fucking cool. click the readmore if you wanna learn some. :DDDD also disclaimer not a latin teacher, rather a high school student not gonna b great at this lol
for @human-n0-l0ng3r
I havent yapped about the cambridge latin course enough so here’s a good yap. On stage 26 “tribunus” with students for reference
1. I have one class that’s absolutely OBSESSED with the astrologer from stage 19-20. Like had a student write 18 pages of fic about the astrologer’s background lore (not canon) and read it out to the class. Do you KNOW how difficult it is to get a class of 13 year olds to listen for 18 pages of reading????? (They’re also specifically obsessed with the actor for the astrologer on the CLC web portal because he has such a stellar performance in one of the skit videos)
2. The cogi assassination plot is. So. Fucking. Good!!!!! So much drama!!! So much character analysis and excellent characterization!!! And then it all ties together meeting rufus in “tribunus”
You really cannot skip a single story in this book and teaching it is such a treat
does anyone else who teaches (or is taking/going to take) AP Latin want to pool resources? i realized it might be easier to crowdsource than to make everything by hand!
if you're interested, can you respond to this post or send me a message?
There have been a number of incidents of racism and sexism that have made headlines in classics, but one of the persistent offenders seems to be the Paideia institute:
https://classicssocialjustice.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/statements-on-the-paideia-institute/
I have personally got a couple of independent confirmations of their disrespect for women and minorities from women though some back channels. If you search "sportula Paideia" in the latin facebook groups and on twitter more will come up.
In response to these incidents and in the context of incidents of racism at major classics conferences many folks are boycotting the Paideia conference in Feb in NY and planning an alternative conference at the same time nearby. I think this has a real chance to be an inclusive alternative, so I hope that folks here will consider coming and even better offer to give presentations. If you go to the link ourvoicesinclassics.com you can suggest presentation ideas or nominate someone to present. I am going to present on how and why I not only teach by speaking Latin but also ask my students to speak as well and how that opens the language up to a wider audience.
@quomododragon, here’s another idea for you.
You can make these books, and some matching paper dolls. By moving the dolls around inside the ‘rooms’ of the paper dollhouse, you can get students talking about the difference between in + ablative or in + accusative; trans as opposed to per, and other prepositional phrases. You can also use them to prompt students to develop vocabulary lists for four different rooms in a house, or four different regions of the Roman Empire, and use them to talk about travel. As a writing prompt, set up four such books on four separate tables, and have students write in Latin about what they see going on in several rooms.
If the tutorial I’ve written on how to create the books isn’t enough, you can find plenty of other tutorials online, for example this one. I’ve written about this book design here, as well.
You definitely give it a place of honor and store your laurels on it.
Modern Latin Idioms
Ok, so everyone is worried we are going to create a dialect of Latin by speaking it and that eventually that dialect of Latin is going to evolve to the point that it is too far from classical Latin to help you understand Cicero. In that vein I wonder what corrupt barbarisms we have created to date. Please add to the list and tell me, is this your fear too?
Navis id = ship it
Figidulus = cool as in good not temperature
Verundus = awesome as in good but not about fearing the gods
Puellex = gender neutral young person (seems like this fills an imprortant need!)
Nerdus = because sometimes “umbraticus” is not enough
Pippiatorium = the twitters
Prosopobiblion = the facebooks. A Greek-derived word. Why? No idea.
And.... ?
Immersive Latin offers to make a historically elite subject more equitable.
What spoken Latin can do. (How to get your students to chant “sanguinem” and other nugae)