Available now from Comprehensible Classics: an organizer for student notes and translations to help prepare for the new AP Latin exam! This project began as a attempt to create a translation and notetaking organizer for my new AP Latin class. I wanted something that included more than just blank lines and blank space. Here are …
NEW TIERED READINGS – AP Project Passage #3 (Ovid, Fasti 2.83–86, 95–100, 103–116)
AP Latin Project Passage #3 this year is Ovid's version of "Arion and the Dolphin" from his Fasti poem, a didactic poem about the holidays and festivals of the Roman calendar. Interestingly enough, Pliny the Younger has a famous letter about friendly dolphins near a North African tidepool (Pl. Ep. 9.33) and Aulus Gellius also …
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Letter 2 – Absentiae et Libelli – Video Resources
Below are videos designed to introduce and guide AP Latin students through understanding, reading, and translating Pliny, Epistulae 6.7. Although these videos are aligned to my tiered reader Darkness Over Pompeii, they are useful for any textbook or curriculum. For more AP Latin video resources, check out the AP Resources page. Letter 2 Video: PictureTalk introducing the vocabulary, events, and themes of …
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NEW TIERED READINGS – AP Project Passage #2 (Laudatio Turiae)
AP Project passage #2 is an excerpt from the longest surviving personal Latin inscription, written by a husband (mostly likely Quintus Lucretius Vespillo) for his deceased wife Turia. The inscription dates from the 1st Century B.C., during the tumultuous times of Augustus' rise to power. Given the period of its composition (late Republican Rome) and …
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NEW TIERED READINGS – AP Project Passage #1 (Augustine, Confessions)
July 1st marks the release of one of the major innovations in the new AP Latin syllabus: the inclusion of four annually rotating project passages. Each year AP will post four new project passages (2 prose, 2 poetry). This year's passages include various genres: autobiography (Augustine's Confessions), epigraphy and oration (Laudatio Turiae), myth (Ovid, Fasti), …
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Video Resources for Letter 1B: Calpurnia in Campania, Part 2
Below are videos designed to introduce and guide AP Latin students through understanding, reading, and translating Pliny, Epistulae 6.4.4-5. Although these videos are aligned to my tiered reader Darkness Over Pompeii, they are useful for any textbook or curriculum. For more AP Latin video resources, check out the AP Resources page. Letter 1B Video: PictureTalk introducing …
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Vocabula Conturbemus!
by Andrew Olimpi How do you introduce new vocabulary to your students? Do you have them memorize a list? Discuss a word cloud? Gamify it with Kahoot or Gimkit? Co-create a story? Heading into the third quarter of my twentieth year teaching, I felt like I was running out of tricks. My old pre-reading activities …
So, about those levels…
Frequent readers of my novellas may have notice a silent, subtle change in my most recent books: instead of listing my novellas in the order that they were published (which made sense when there were only three or four of them), I've decided to arrange and market them in a way that can be a …
Hacking Quizlet Live and Kahoot for Acquisition
Quizlet and Kahoot are mainstays of my classroom. Generally, I use one or both programs three or four times a month. For a while I have favored Quizlet due to the “group work/collaborative” aspect (which ticks some educational/pedagogical boxes), and the fact that the “diagram” functionality on the paid version of Quizlet. I turn my …
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Activity: Discipulus Novus (New Student)
This is yet another variation on on Bryce Headstrom's La Persona Especial. It combines some of the goofy fun of the "Headbandz" game as a hook for student interest. Also, since I teach at a private school with small classes, student interviews only get me so far. So, first, using Sticky Notes (I know, high …
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