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Black History Month Quote Wall: Decorate your classroom with quotes from Roman Authors from Africa! Quotes on love and life from authors such as St. Augustine, Fronto, Hypatia, Luxorius, Nemesianus, St. Perpetua, and Terrence! You can download the PDF here: Roman Voices From AfricaRoman Voices From Africa
Lesson Plans for Semester 1 Latin Students:
- 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
- Love and Life in Pompeii: A Walk Among Graffiti
- Objective: Students Will Be Able To infer daily life and activities of ancient Romans through analyzing Pompeiian graffiti
- Love and Life in Pompeii
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
- Avis Resurgens: Fabula de Caeneo
- Avis Resurgens is a first person narrative about the life of the trans warrior Caeneus. It is a 250 word story that uses Present, Imperfect, Future, Perfect and Pluperfect Active verbs, as well as personal pronouns.
- Avis Resurgens
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
- “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
- "Counting Kisses:" A Lesson in Hyperbole
- Objective: Students
Will Be Able To: analyze the hyperbolic trope of counting
kisses in the poems of Catullus and Martial to infer some perspectives of Roman
sexuality
- LGBT Meets SPQR Lesson Plan 10: Counting Kisses, a Lesson in Hyperbole
- Passages for Reading Comprehension: Intermediate-level Latin short stories with comprehension questions, aimed at helping students prepare for Latin reading exams:
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)
- "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
- 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
