Latin Question
James Hosler has a question for our core group of Latinists: I feel I'm getting a hang on the ideas, if not the practice yet, of jGR, PQA, CWB, R&D and all the day-to-day stuff. The one thing I am looking nervously at
Read and Discuss – Latine
Here is an important article from Robert Patrick to the Latin-Best Practices list. It goes into detail and is an excellent addition to our already strong set of articles in the R and D category: Of all the practices currently developing
Kids Using Latin at the Dinner Table
Group member James Hosler has given me permission to share this email with the group. It warms the heart to read stuff like this: Ben, I have noticed a lot of anxiety on our end lately about administrators and snotty kids. But
The Surprise
I vote for this simple little story by Anne as a good candidate to get back into the swing of things. It's simple, funny, and most importantly, simple. And did I say that it is simple? When I did it
Bob Patrick on Read and Discuss
Whenever we get good detailed descriptions of teaching processes/templates we should share them. Here is one that Bob Patrick shared with the Latin Best Practices group recently: Of all the practices currently developing in the larger practice of Comprehensible Input, Reading
All That Grammar
From Bob Patrick: Interesting (though not at all surprising) tidbit here today. I have a female student, Latin 2, who was "sent away" to a juvenile institution to deal with behavioral issues (at home - never a sing moment's trouble in
Report from the Field – Jeff Brickler
Another series of emails, the third such collection, among the Latinists, but it applies to all of us. It is about Jeff's organizing himself against attacks by ignorant people, but there is also a valuable thread about reading in here
Let’s Talk More About Latin and CI
This is the position of ACTFL on learning classical languages (ACTFL Position Statement of 7/30/12):
Latin and Comprehensible Input
These articles by our own Robert Patrick and John Piazza fit in with the current thread started by David. I think that they are important for us to read, in case we get into discussion with any colleagues who don't fully get the
David Maust on Signing 1
This is a long but super excellent article from our own David Maust. It includes video and discussion of same. Hi Ben, I hope you are well! I put up some videos from my class last week on my youtube channel –