Catullus’ poems are so visual and many ready for performance. In 1998 my 5th year AP students (remember when there was a 5th year AP?) filmed this version of Catullus 10. We wandered around Providence, having fun filming, and eventually arrived in my attic! We had so much fun with this, and I hope that it will inspire you to do the same with a poem or a story.
By Ruth Breindel, who taught Latin, Greek, Linguistics and Mythology at Moses Brown School for 30 years.
Teller (of Penn & Teller fame and a former Latin teacher) tells it like it is: Teaching is like performing magic Ancient Rome and Little
EDSITEment! has lesson plans on a variety of topics, sorted by ages and categories. There are ones on Pompeii, Latin, and other topics from the
10 similarities between Star Trek and ancient Rome. Oxford Dictionaries discusses some Ides of March inspired words (via Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.) Greek and Roman sculptures
I just got back from my first MaFLA (Massachusetts Foreign Language Association) conference. Perhaps like you, I had once thought that MaFLA wasn’t worth going
