Resources for Teachers

The following lesson plans are available to enhance gender and LGBTQIA+ topics in high school Latin curricula.

If you would like to submit a lesson plan idea, please email admin @ lgbtmeetsspqr . com .

WORKSHEET: For a printable worksheet on analyzing LGBT Meets SPQR passages, click here: LGBT MEETS SPQR WORKSHEET TEMPLATE

 Pride Week Activity: TE ACCIPIO (Vergil, Aen. IX.276-280) Tiered Reading Passage and Printable Wristbands   Download Here:   Te Accipio Tiered Reading and Printable Wristbands

Lesson Plans for Semester 1 Latin Students:

[assumed level of competency in: noun cases, 1st, 2nd, 2nd neuter, 3rd declension; Present, Imperfect and Future tense (active only); basic pronouns]

• Somewhere It's Green: Gender Roles in Livy's Heroes 
• Objective: Students Will Be Able To:  analyze the virtues and vices of early Roman heroes [in passages adapted for the first semester Latin student] of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita for Roman perspectives of gender roles
• Somewhere It's Green: Gender Roles in Livy's Heroes
• Love, Hate & War: Trojan War Valentines
• Objective: Students Will Be Able To: create a Valentine’s Day card in the perspective of a Trojan War figure based on internet research of Greco-Roman mythology 
• Love Hate & War: Trojan War Valentines
  

Lesson Plans for Semester 2 Latin Students:

[assumed level of competency in: noun cases, noun endings in all five declensions; all pronouns; all indicative verb forms in both active and passive]

•  The Girl Loves the Poet: Active / Passive Love Triangles
• Objective: Students Will Be Able To: differentiate active and passive voice by creating modeled Latin sentences using manipulatives
• The Girl Loves the Poet: Active / Passive Love Triangles

Lesson plans for Semester 3 Latin Students:

[assumed level of competency in: noun cases, noun endings in all five declensions, all pronouns; indicative and subjunctive forms; participles, ablative absolutes, and infinitives; uses of subjunctive mood]

• Soulmates, Celestial Bodies, and the Origin of Love 
• Objective: Students Will Be Able To:  Infer Greco-Roman perspectives on sexuality and gender roles by analyzing an adapted Latin text of Plato’s Symposium 189ff 
•  Soulmates, Celestial Bodies, and the Origin of Love: A Lesson Plan PDF

• “Feet of Clay:”  Analyzing Gender Roles and Sexual Mores in Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian Creation Myths:
• Objective:

  Students Will Be Able To:  analyze Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian creation myths to infer their culture’s perceptions of gender roles and sexual mores 
• LGBT Meets SPQR Lesson Plan 3: Feet of Clay

Lesson Plans for Advanced Students / Readers of Latin: 

• "Dangerous Beauty: The Impact of Beauty in the Abduction Myths of Hylas and Persephone"
• Objective:  analyze the impact of gender in the abduction myths of Persephone (Ovid, Meta. V.385-408) & Hylas (Propertius, Eleg. I.20)
  
• LGBT Meets SPQR Lesson Plan 9: Dangerous Beauty
• "Let Each One Sing of Whomever They Love:" Nemesianus' Fourth Eclogue
• Objective:  Students Will Be Able To:  compare portrayals of heteronormative and same-sex couples in Nemesianus’ Fourth Eclogue to analyze ancient perspectives of gender and sexuality
• LGBT Meets SPQR Lesson Plan 8: Let Each One Sing of Whomever They Love 
• Voices of War: Self / Family / Community: Selections from Quintus of Smyrna's Trojan War Epic
• Objective:  analyze the impact of war on women, noncombatants, and family structures through translation of passages from Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica
• Voices of War PDF