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 July 30

Here are some interesting articles on classical subjects we found interesting this week! Do you know about LOGEION?  This dictionary tool from the Unversity of Chicago

Links for July 16

MONUMENTA LATINE, Et cetera….. The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) for searching Latin inscriptions. This website from the University of Chicago will teach you to read inscriptions.

Viam Sume Propriam

Latin composition has been on our minds lately here on CANEns, and today I wanted to share with you a technique I’ve used successfully in