Latin Resources

Teaching Tenses

In today’s feature post, regular blog contributor Ruth Breindel shares two resources for helping students understand tenses. Teaching tenses and their meaning is a difficult

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

Valentine’s Day Resources

It’s that time of year again, and valentines are a wonderful way to get students thinking about Latin phrases.  Even half a class period devoted

The Moving Sentence

Latin sentence structure is so difficult for students, since they are used to word order as the defining characteristic.  I found it best to start

Teaching Scansion

Strategy One: “quick and dirty” rules Example: a) last 5 syllables marked off submissoque humiles intrarunt vērtĭcĕ pōstēs b) remove ue and h, as they

Two Roman Goddesses- A Fasti Commentary

CANE Press has many commentaries of Latin texts that you might not find elsewhere. One such example is Amanda Wall’s Two Roman Goddesses, which presents