Category Archives: Pedagogy

Teaching and learning, mnemonics, textbooks, &c.

Tuxtax: Tic-tac-toe for Latin classes

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Dennis

Here’s a game that I came up with while teach­ing an unusu­ally small class in my first year teach­ing. I’ve had lots of suc­cess with this one, but the larger the class the more dif­fi­cult (and prob­a­bly futile) it is … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Circus Factions! (A game for Latin classes.)

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Dennis

I tweeted ear­lier today about some games for use in the Latin class­room, and men­tioned that I would blog about my favorite. Apolo­gies to the orig­i­na­tor of this game.* CIRCUS FACTIONS is a great game for get­ting stu­dents up and mov­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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George Grote on myth and allegory

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Dennis

There’s a lot to be learned from texts that might seem out of date, and while it seems odd to say that to any­one inter­ested in ancient texts, it’s easy to for­get that the lat­est schol­ar­ship isn’t nec­es­sar­ily the most … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Poll: Critical thinking in the humanities and the sciences

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Dennis

This may be news to many read­ers of the blog, as I haven’t blogged about skep­ti­cism (except per­haps in my post on chi­ro­prac­tic, Herodotus: the father of hand­i­work) but I am a long­time skep­tic. (Brian Dunning’s con­cise state­ment, What is … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Ovid and Housman

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Dennis

My Latin IV stu­dents are read­ing Ovid in trans­la­tion, and this week we’re cov­er­ing book 5, which is essen­tially a pas­tiche of the major gen­res of epic, mov­ing from a par­ody of Odysseus and the suit­ors, to Hesiod’s Heli­con, and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Latin teachers: Declension order?

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Dennis

I’m always inter­ested to hear from my col­leagues, and I have a ques­tion for you (though I con­fess I already have an answer of my own). Have you any thoughts on the order of the declen­sions? Oerberg’s Lin­gua Latina presents … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Plotting Ancient Sites pt. 2

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Dennis

Patrick Calla­han of Ford­ham offers an impres­sive map show­ing the ori­gins of the Arg­onauts (and he has taken it a step fur­ther with color-coding): View Arg­onau­tika Book 1 Cat­a­logue of Heroes in a larger map As he notes, “Hasty work, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Plotting Ancient Sites with Google Maps

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Dennis

I’m hav­ing my Latin IV stu­dents read Ovid in trans­la­tion while we work through Livy in Latin to see a few dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives and the way that authors can draw from a range of sources to cre­ate markedly dif­fer­ent works … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Latin Poetry Podcast: hexameter lists

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Dennis

If you haven’t lis­tened yet, you’ll want to check out pro­fes­sor Francese’s lat­est Latin Poetry Pod­cast on var­i­ous lists in Latin hexa­m­e­ters, which includes the fol­low­ing by Ennius (which it would be good for stu­dents to mem­o­rize): Iuno Vesta Min­erva … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Announcement on A.P. Latin: 2012–2013

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Dennis

A col­league kindly handed me a print­out of the fol­low­ing e-mail from the Col­lege Board, and I was sur­prised to see that it hadn’t made its way to my inbox. I noticed no chat­ter on the lists (though I receive … Con­tinue read­ing →

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