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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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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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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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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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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Self-motivated Summer Reading? Like many language teachers, I want my students to read in L2 on their own. During the school year, I have FVR (Free Voluntary Reading) time on a regular basis for my more advanced students, and with my less experienced students, there are story-listening activities, MovieTalks, and collaborative story telling activities galore. …
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 …
I've been attending graduate school during the past few summers. Two summers ago, I had a conversation with a professor about the current "spoken Latin" movement among Latin teachers and enthusiasts. This professor was actually from Europe, and his question was simple: Why would anyone WANT to speak Latin. What was the point? We gleefully swapped anecdotes …
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