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

 

We're enjoying an unseasonably warm October here in Chicagoland. Let's hope that that does not mean a wicked harsh winter as so many are predicting!

 

Speaking of wicked, an adverb in lingua Bostoniense, the adjective evokes witches and the Halloween season. Remarkable is the amount of money we Americans spend on Halloween decorations! While you check out Target's Trickus Treatus (see this issue's Classics Tidbits), we hope you prefer Bolchazy-Carducci's Dolus aut Dulce  and encourage your students to participate.

 

In this issue's Resources & Teaching Tips, we provide you a special Halloween-themed lesson—Trimalchio's "Ghost Story" excerpted from Gilbert Lawall's Petronius: Selections from the Satyricon. We also offer this title as this month's special discount selection.

 

Enjoy the season. Come see us at one of the upcoming conferences or online at a free Bolchazy-Carducci webinar. Reach out if you have questions—our editors and customer service specialists offer nothing but dulce!

The Classical Association of the Atlantic States serves classicists in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland as well as those in the District of Columbia. Its annual meeting, therefore, regularly rotates among those locations. The 2017 meeting, held at the New York Marriott East Side, with over a hundred and fifty individual speakers and around two hundred and fifty attendees, by those measures alone was a great success. Once again, Mary Brown, executive director, and Judith Hallett, program chair, deserve kudos for their fine work.

 

Editor Don Sprague, as has been his custom, served as representative for the Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers exhibit. A location near the registration desk and serving as the site for the morning coffee breaks encouraged conference attendees to check out the exhibits. In addition to several classics organizations' displays and representatives from the online master's program at Villanova University and the master's program with teaching licensure at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Penguin Books and Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers exhibited books. Ann Patty, author of Living with a Dead Language, gave a presentation at the meeting and then signed copies of her books in the exhibit room. The B-C display, five tables strong, stood directly opposite the entrance to the exhibit room.

 

 

Teachers were especially pleased to see the new titles A Latin Picture Dictionary for Everyone and Word Mastery through Derivatives. Others lauded our publication of the new Plotinus title Plotinus on Beauty and Reality. Several teachers carefully perused the Latin for the New Millennium Second Edition texts in the interest of adopting a new series.

 

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers thoroughly appreciates the opportunity to catch up with their colleagues from CAAS. B-C authors Henry Bender, Marianthe Colakis, Judith Hallett, Linda Fabrizio, Danny Jackson, and David Murphy connected with us at CAAS.

 

 

Though I have written about Quizlet before, they recently introduced a new study tool that I wanted to make sure teachers are aware of. It is called Quizlet Diagrams and has a variety of potential applications in the Latin classroom. The teacher can upload an image, drop multiple tags, and provide a term and a definition for each tag. The teacher then shares the Quizlet Diagram with students using a web-link. Students can interact with the Diagram in a variety of ways to learn and quiz themselves on the material.

I used a map of the ancient city of Rome as my starting image, then tagged the various locations that I wanted my students to learn. When I created the definitions for the tags, I entered the description of the location as the "term" and the name of the location as the "definition." In our next instructional unit, my students will be learning the parts of a domus. I think that a Quizlet Diagram will be a great way for the class to learn not only the vocabulary but also the general layout. By selecting an appropriate starting image, I can see introducing thematic vocabulary through a Quizlet Diagram as well as providing a review of prepositions. The more I use Quizlet, the more uses I discover. It is a great example of a tech tool that is continually evolving to make it increasingly beneficial to both students and teachers. Check it out at www.quizlet.com.
 

 

Lynne West
Latin Teacher and Instructional Specialist
Bellarmine Jesuit College Prep
San Jose, CA

 

 

 

 

 

Connect your Latin students to the season. To help, we provide you a lesson that you can download and share with your classes. Trimalchio's ghost story, excerpted from Gilbert Lawall's Petronius: Selections from the Satyricon, consists of twenty-five lines of Latin accompanied by generous notes and vocabulary aids.

 

NB: This is a publisher-authorized complimentary download for use in your classroom only—not for any other form of distribution or sharing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janus appropriately appears in Financial Management Association International's presentation.

A trio of caryatids and the Art Institute of Chicago's lions grace a Little Free Library. The Edgewater neighborhood in Chicago boasts seventy-five such little free libraries. For the full picture, we've included the panel of the Trinity College Library and the front of the little free library.

 

 

 

 

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