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For Teachers

20 Animal Sounds in Latin

Below you will find all of the animal sounds that I have collected reading through Erasmus’ Adagia, Colloquia, Epistles, and other works. Some of them are proper verbs associated . . .

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For Teachers

Teaching Lingua Latina Part I: The Introduction

This series of posts is intended to address methods for making the best use of this book in the classroom. The aim of this post in particular is to observe, first, the challenges of teaching languages in a school setting, and then in turn, of choosing Familia Romana as a classroom text for accomplishing your goal.

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For Teachers

On Philhellenism

For your reading pleasure: some considerations on modern philhellenism by three moderns and philhellenists. . .

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Latin

Three Aesopish Fables

The following three fables were taken from various places in Erasmus’ Adagia. They are fun reads and a good project for upper intermediate students to translate.

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For Students

Cicero ad Atticum 1,2 – A Brief Commentary

It is not particularly difficult, but brings a couple words to the fore: fore, summa, and “opus est”. Though rather simpler, the end of the first paragraph as well as a bit in the second might give trouble.

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Latin

Expositio In Pater Noster

Ambulator has had something in the works that he will be presenting shortly. Until that time, take a moment to enjoy St. Francis’ Expositio in Pater Noster.

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For Teachers

A Handy Classroom Tip or Two

Most of classroom management is having the forsight to predict and prevent mayhem before it gets out of hand. . . I have assembled four tips below . . .

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For Students

Paraphrasis in John

Since the Holy Week does not seem like an appropriate time to offer any personal reflections, I figured I would share a passage from Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Paraphrases. The all but extinct genre. . .

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