MARGINALIA

I took some of my students on a real fieldtrip to the National Gallery of Art . We took a day over Winter Break, boarded the Virginia Railwa...

While grading Latin I tests yesterday, I came across some interesting notes a student had scribbled in the margin of her paper. In the secti...

Time for another posting a picture for the heck of it. This is the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aphaia in the Saronic Gulf. I too...

In Latin II class today we were reading the werewolf story in Chapter 33 of Ecce Romani II . The students thought it odd that the slave and ...

While looking online recently for a good Latin quote on love, I found amore, more, ore, re I stopped. I reread the quote. I thought this was...

I have gotten into the habit of introducing figures of speech to my Latin I and II students when we come across them. In Ecce Romani I, ...

The first thing we visited on my very first trip to Rome as a student in 1982 was the Pantheon. This magnificent building remains my favorit...

The harpy Celaeno, offended by the Trojans for the slaughter of her cattle, prophesies to Aeneas, " ibitis Italiam portusque intrare li...

I have read several articles over the past few days concerning the claim that the bronze statue of the Capitoline Wolf, that iconic image fr...

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 have been ignoring this blog for way too long. It is time to get back to writing and putting down into words my thoughts and ideas about L...

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...