MARGINALIA

I recently posted an article on the revised AP Latin curriculum including some letters of Pliny the Younger in lieu of lengthy passages of ...

The College Board has announced that they are replacing Caesar with Pliny the Younger for the next iteration of the Advanced Placement Latin...

When my students were reading authentic Latin literature, I would encourage them, as they worked through a passage, to pay attention to refe...

Since the recent announcement of the changes to the curriculum in the new AP Latin exam, I have been pondering the required readings. For Ve...

The big news at this year's ACL Institute was the new AP Latin curriculum for the May 2013 exam. This summer's announcement brought ...

" Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra ?" It has been quite some time since these words have been heard aloud in ...

It has been said that Julius Caesar is the most famous Roman of them all. Everyone has heard about Caesar and something of his exploits (rig...

We have put AP Latin Literature to bed -- hopefully for not too long a nap. The College Board will issue their proclamation soon about what ...

It is Memorial Day and tomorrow we will enter what I have come to call the tatters of the year. The AP and state exams are over. The weather...

The 61st Annual Institute of the American Classical League has come and gone and I sit to write about it from the other side of a short fami...

I am very excited this year because, for the first time in years, I am not teaching Latin IV students and Advanced Placement students in the...

My students asked today what we were doing after the AP Latin Literature exam. Certainly they are not looking ahead and anticipating the end...