Teaching Classical Languages

Seen on the Latin Teach list:

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South is pleased to announce the most recent issue of Teaching Classical Languages (www.tcl.camws.org).  In this issue are three articles.  The first describes more than 20 field tested exercises to help beginning and intermediate students become more efficient readers of Latin.  The second introduces teachers to form-focused instruction, a pedagogy that integrates grammar instruction within a communicative context.  Finally, the issue concludes with an analysis of students’ strengths and weaknesses on the 2010 College Greek Exam.

In this issue of Teaching Classical Languages:
*       Rebecca Harrison, “Exercises for Developing Prediction Skills in Reading Latin Sentences”
*       Peter Anderson & Mark Beckwith, “Form-Focused Teaching for the Intermediate Latin Student”
*       Albert Watanabe, “The 2010 College Greek Exam”
To access the latest issue and read the abstracts, go to www.tcl.camws.org and click on “current issue.”

Teaching Classical Languages welcomes articles offering innovative practice and methods, advocating new theoretical approaches, or reporting on empirical research in teaching and learning Latin and Greek.  Please submit articles and queries to:

John Gruber-Miller, editor
Teaching Classical Languages
Cornell College
Mount Vernon, IA 52314
jgruber-miller AT cornellcollege.edu

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas maias

ante diem x kalendas maias

  • 178 A.D. — martyrdom of Epipodias at Lyons
  • 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Leonidas in Alexandria
  • 248 A.D. — second day of celebrations for Rome’s 1000th anniversary
  • ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Helimenas at Babylon

Also Seen: Hellenistic Art at the Met

The Smarthistory folks look at a couple of items at the Metropolitan Museum (a sleeping Eros and a realistic Old Market Woman):

Pozzuoli Dump Tomb Update

Not sure how long this will be available, but Corriere del Mezzogiorno’s coverage includes a video (without sound?), the last minute of which looks around inside that tomb which was found in a Pozzuoli dump the other day … doesn’t look like there’s much there …

VotD: Les Dieux de l’Olympe

Tip o’ the pileus to the historyteachers lady for drawing our attention to this item put together by a class at  Sherbrooke College (I think … please correct me if I’m wrong) … it’s in French:

Everybody sing along:

On est les plus forts
On est immortels
Au sommet du monde
C’est nous qui dirigeons tout
Dirigeons tout