MARGINALIA

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...

In my Latin III classes we are translating O Fortuna from the Carmina Burana . The Latin is not difficult and the students enjoy honing the...

Archaeologists have unearthed a stone on the Acropolis in both Greek and Latin! :) My daughter took this photograph in June 2007.

It is Presidents' Day, February 18, and I am making my first post since August. I had said posting to my blog would be therapy for seven...

I was listening to the local classic rock station driving to the first teacher workday this morning and when I turned onto the street on whi...

It is the evening before veteran teachers are to report to school. The rookies have already spent three days in training camp. The supplies ...

I was making my way to the grocery store the other day and noticed that the construction at the community church across the street was almos...

On the day when the world was tearing into J.K. Rowling's seventh and final book in the wildly successful series about the boy-wizard Ha...

At the end of the school year I learned that I will be teaching Latin I this fall. Most teachers would not find this assignment surprising b...

On a recent trip to Italy and Greece I called a student over to my table after dinner and invited her to sit down. I told her I had somethin...

I know that I have posted an image of an umbrella pine tree before... but today I have a reason! My students and I recently returned from a ...

The Flavian Amphitheater at night...a much more peaceful place than during the day. This photograph was taken by the husband of a colleague ...

I began class the other day by reviewing (very briefly) the indirect command and then asking for a quick outline of the story we were transl...

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...

A recent article posted on David Meadow's outstanding blog, rogueclassicism , offered wonderful and concise information on how we know h...

Today we reached the three-quarters mark of the school year. The weather is warm, the flowers are beginning to bloom, and the trees are star...

marginalia (MAR-je-NA-le-a) n. pl. Notes, thoughts, ideas, doodles, and the like written in the margins of a book or textbook. When I bega...

In the "The more things change, the more they stay the same" department, we have news out of Italy which reminds us (sadly) of an ...

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...

For so long the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina was the first site I visited after entering the Forum Romanum. Back in the day you had to e...