Reading and Translation
BIDVVM 2022
BIDVVM: A Latin intensive for teachers The BIDVVM (Biduum) is a two day immersive language learning event for students of different abilities. It aims to promote appreciation, enjoyment, comprehension, and facility in spoken Latin. Participants converse, read, laugh,...
ICL Practicum ACCS 2021
Karen Moore (remote), Tim Griffith, Marcus Foster lead a one-day Latin practicum at the 2021 ACCS conference in Frisco, TX. Here are their hand-outs and other resources given to attendees and mentioned at the practicum!
Group Translation Sample – Tim Griffith
Tim Griffith leads NSA beginning Latin students through group translation on individual whiteboards and prompts corrections. This is an effective exercise to get weaker students to work through a handful of sentences carefully. 1)...
Exegesis of Apuleius and Phaedrus – Tim Griffith
Tim Griffith walks New Saint Andrews students through a passage from Apuleius’ Metamorphoses in Latin. The methodology is: 1) Read aloud 2) Allow students to make comments in Latin on grammatical structure. 3) Ask for rephrasing in...