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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

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

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

Ovid started the trend

Over the last five years or so, novels retelling classic myths from a new perspective has become trendy. Whenever I walk into my local independent

Catullus and the Beatles

By Ruth Breindel, who taught Latin, Greek, Linguistics and Mythology at Moses Brown School for 30 years. Who doesn’t love the Beatles?  The similarities between

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