MARGINALIA

A fun and interesting way to hold a meeting of fellow Latin teachers is to schedule a dinner at a local restaurant. I am fortunate to work i...

I visited the website of the American Classical League and discovered that the information and registration for the upcoming institute is...

Come into my classroom and take a look around! A classroom is like a construction zone... not a tidy place! Notanda : 1) on the door is a p...

I have often put in my two cents in the great Latin textbook debate, but this posting is not directly about that. That is a thread all its o...

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

Take the chill off winter and imagine yourself in the sailboat... This is the promontory at Cape Sounion, the very spot where Aegeus, fretfu...

There are two on-line resources that anyone teaching Latin in the twenty-first century must be aware of. Indeed, how could you be reading a ...

About a year and a half ago, one of my students who is a youth correspondent for the "MyLine" section of The Free Lance-Star (Fre...

The Roman Forum is one of my favorite places to visit. Pictured here at the base of the Capitoline Hill are the ruins of the Temple of Satur...

One of the activities in my classroom which has made me very proud and provided much satisfaction is the teaching of what I call "class...

As I have been learning the ins and outs of blogging, I've been visiting other sites and discovered that many people include images with...

I always get excited when I come across an echo from one author to another. When I was reading Martial the other day, I found Verona docti s...

I just returned from Deborah Mason's funeral (if you have read my earlier postings, you will recall that she was a fellow Latin teacher ...

The Great Blizzard of 2006 left 8" of the white stuff in the Fredericksburg area, enough to close schools in our county for the day and...

I learned by e-mail last evening that Debbie Mason has passed away. She taught Latin at Altavista High School in Campbell County, VA, locate...

I have been teaching Latin for the past 19 years. I graduated magna cum laude from Mary Washington College (now the University of Mary Wash...

This is my very first venture into blogging. It may take me a while to get up to speed but I'm looking forward to discovering the potent...