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

David Pellegrino, a retired, high school Latin teacher who lives in Upstate New York, occasionally shares on Facebook "short, doable La...

At this year's American Classical League Institute in Minneapolis, I attended a session on the Cambridge Latin Course . Having taught f...

In my brand new, right-out-of-the-package Latin II classes, I have led off early with an exercise having the students translate an English p...

A colleague, who is an outstanding teacher of geography, is conducting some research and came across this map of what is now eastern North C...

I have encouraged my students this year to read and translate their Latin passages in the order in which they appear, left to right. We have...

In this day of quick and easy answers from the internet, it is too easy for our students to give in to the expedient and avoid the honorable...

A student came to see me after school recently and wanted to know if I had any suggestions for helping her complete her Latin homework assig...

Composition, the translation of English into Latin, has long been a chore for students learning Latin. I've always enjoyed the mental ex...

Moving to block scheduling has allowed me to try something new this year: I call it Compositio Hodierna (Daily Composition). When the stu...