12 Days of Christmas

What to do when the students are anxious for winter break?  Here is a powerpoint of the 12 Days of Christmas, using pictures and the words in Latin.  There is enough time for them to translate and also sing along!  This translation comes from the Chattertocks at Brown University, who sang it every year at the Brown Carol program.  This is great also for teaching present participles and ordinal numbers.  A win for students and teachers.

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Links for November 14th

A skeleton was recently unearthed in the tomb at Amphipolis. Some free maps of the Roman Empire. A brief article contrasting modern democracy with that

Links for 25 July

Participate in the National Latin Survey. Roman fingerprints found in 2,000 year old cosmetics. A free MOOC on paleography through the University of London. Crocodile

Trucks and the Subjunctive in PowerPoint

Since students don’t know how to use the subjunctive in English, explaining the constructions in Latin is complicated.  The presentations linked in this blog post

Links for June 25th

Why are rabbits in medieval manuscripts so violent? An evaluation of a few of Rome’s “bad” emperors. On Cicero and the Brexit. Some suggestions on