Regular vocabulary study, reading practice, and active participation in class will be the keys to success in Latin. Finally, students will have the opportunity to delve into cultural topics that are of particular interest to them, such as mythology, art, architecture, or history students will have a great deal of choice in completing projects in these areas. We’ll learn what the Romans themselves tell us about their culture, which has so significantly shaped our own! We’ll also strengthen our English vocabulary through studies of etymology and Latin mottoes, and explore Roman culture and civilization.
In our class, we’ll learn grammatical topics through brief lectures, but most of the time will be spent reading, writing, listening to and speaking the Latin language, with the ultimate goal of being able to read and interpret Roman literature.
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When I’m not moderating a Certamen match or writing a geography test for Latin convention, I like to spend my free time exercising, hanging out with my husband and our yellow lab Simone, baking, and watching LSU football and gymnastics. We’ve explored Roman forts, climbed Mount Vesuvius, and have even run a foot race in the original Olympic stadium! It’s been so rewarding to see my students flex their passion for the classics outside of the classroom. A highlight of my experience has been traveling with students and their families to Italy, Greece, and Roman Britain.
I also have enjoyed participating in many extracurricular activities for Latin students such as Latin Club, Junior Classical League, Certamen (Latin quiz bowl), and contests such as the National Latin Exam and the National Mythology Exam. I’ve taught all levels of Latin, from elementary school to college, and have experience teaching in private, public, and online schools. I earned a BA in Classics and French from Middlebury College, and then pursued graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I earned a Master of Arts in Teaching Latin and Classical Humanities. I started learning Latin as a seventh grader in Louisiana, and my first teaching job was at my alma mater. Salvete! (Hello!) I am very excited to teach Latin at the Well-Trained Mind Academy! I have been a Latin teacher for seventeen years, and can’t wait to share my love of ancient languages and civilizations with you. All submissions are considered final, unless an exception has been specifically provided. Most evaluation takes place through written submissions (including papers and short summaries) and tests. Students are also invited to ask their own questions or share observations on the reading. The questions are intended to guide the students into a deeper conversation of the readings and stimulate creative and critical thinking. On teaching: I use a lecture-based format for my literature courses that mixes in questions and conversation with the lecture period. I’m going on faith that they’ll figure out that last one in time, as it has yet to take. Outside of classes about long-deceased authors, you’ll usually find me introducing my four children to some of the other joys in my life: things like baseball, mountains, good stories, the music of the spheres, and sleep. Now my love of Virgil, Augustine, and Dante can be shared across the globe with students just as eager as I was to lay hold of and read the foundational books of western culture. I have been blessed to see the rise of interest in classical schooling go hand in hand with the rise of technology that makes the study of the classics easier and more attainable than ever.
My teaching has been both local (including three years at Logos Christian Academy in Fallon, NV and various opportunities with homeschoolers both there and in my current residence of Moscow, ID) and online for nearly a decade. I have since taught a variety of classes at the junior high and high school level, including History, Literature, and Latin. Andrews College (class of ‘05), but my roots in classical education go back to high school and some of the first online classics-based tutorials with Wes Callihan and Fritz Hinrichs.
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