Here’s an interesting blog post on how the Romans celebrated the New Year.
Don’t forget the sixth grade’s recorded a play: The Cruel Schoolmaster.
Here’s an interesting blog post on how the Romans celebrated the New Year.
Don’t forget the sixth grade’s recorded a play: The Cruel Schoolmaster.
Here’s more on Latin in the UK, and how it is becoming more popular in state schools.
Valete.
Before you begin, though, you might take a look at this survey (conducted in the early 90s) of college admissions officers about their attitude toward applicants who have studied Latin and/or ancient Greek. I posted this earlier, but it seems relevant now as mandatory Latin begins at DDS.
Here are various easy Latin readers, in various formats, from various eras.
The Tar Heel Readers – picture books written by people around the world (including some DDS authors). Select “Latin” as the language (links at right). Look for the gold shield, which means someone has checked the book for accuracy.
Click here for links to specific Tar Heel Readers that other teachers have found useful. This is a good way to find a subject you may be interested in.
Tres Columnae – It’s a little hard to navigate, but after you read the first story, at the bottom, click the “Fabella Secunda” link to move on (then to some questions, and then Fabella Tertia, et cetera)
Bestiaria Latina has a lot of links to PDF files of old Latin primers and readers. You may have to dig a little, but there’s a lot there.
Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles. A classic. Some of these aren’t so easy, but many are. Scroll down for the Latin.
Quia – Search for CLC, or Cambridge Latin Course.
Quizlet – Here, too, do searches for specific “stages” (chapters), CLC, and/or Cambridge Latin course.
You can also search for specific grammatical topics on Quia and Quizlet – how about a review of relative pronouns?
Here’s an interesting article about the resurgence of Latin in the UK – apparently for the first time since the 1980s, Latin is taught in more state (public) schools than in independent schools.
Here’s a link to a brief movie of Tasha explaining how she made her edible model of a Roman road.
I hope you will take a look at the Latin “books” the seventh graders have written. They are at the Tar Heel Reader site, which was originally constructed to promote English literacy but which publishes homemade books in many languages.
You’ll find the seventh grade books here.
Here is a link to a survey (conducted in the early 90s) of college admissions officers about their attitude toward applicants who have studied Latin and/or ancient Greek. (It’s positive.)
I love this — Roman dog tags (really):
https://sites.google.com/site/magistergoodman/septima/RomanDogTags.pdf
You might need to click the “Download attachment” link on that page.
Salvete – I have a backlog of links to share, but for now, here’s
Stay tuned for the seventh graders’ Tar Heel Readers (short picture books in Latin) and more from the world of classics.
Here’s our presentation about some of the stories and characters of early Rome. Click on the speaker icons within the slides to hear the narration (and be patient).