At a small table set between bookcases in an office at the foreign language wing of Plainville High School, three students are trying to grasp the concept of participles – Latin participles. Across ...
For Reina Callier, learning Latin ‘is like lifting weights for your brain’ When a student in one of Reina Callier’s Latin classes said, “I came for the language, I stayed for the vibes,” she laughed, ...
Throughout the fall 2010 semester, Calvin students will be chanting “amo, amas, amat” under the direction of various professors of classical languages in various classrooms in Heimenga Hall. In the ...
When she started teaching Latin 40 years ago, Patty Mullis used to drill her students on grammar and structure. These days, Mullis and other Latin teachers are using new teaching methods to keep the ...
These days, the first lesson of high school Latin is often to answer the question: why Latin? The language peaked in the era of Roman gladiators and slowly faded throughout the Middle Ages. Today, 800 ...
On April 8, a group of 65 ambitious West Rowan High School students ventured to Wake Forest University in hopes of winning their 15th consecutive North Carolina Junior Classical League title. After ...
The cars begin pulling to the curb at Montgomery High in Santa Rosa at 6:45 a.m. Sleepy teens pile out, heading to classes that start an hour before first period. In Room 50, Latin teacher Jennifer ...
Father Joseph Faulkner aims to convince his Nebraska high-school students that as well as being useful, studying Latin can be ‘fun and cool.’ Father Joseph Faulkner's Latin class at St. Cecilia's High ...
A group of 12 people stood in a small circle as Andrew Biondo greeted each person with “Salve” before gripping and shaking their forearm. “‘Salve’ means hello. Shaking your forearm instead of your ...