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This is my second weekend off from the Summer Latin Institute. It’s also Gay Pride weekend. Jason and I went to Pride Shabbat services last night at the lesbian and gay synagogue, drawn by the special guest appearance of pioneering Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Weekend 2
Already started my work day, answering a question from a student who called while I was sipping my morning coffee and making breakfast for Jason (an omelet that I will hide from the kittie cats in the microwave and he Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 10, 6:38 a.m.
Great day at the Summer Latin Institute. Selfishly speaking. Because I got to teach Catullus 13, the first unedited, unadapted, unaltered, complete work of Latin literature our students have read from beginning to end with comprehension (all 14 lines of Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 9, 6:45 p.m.
I did learn from my mistakes (see yesterday’s blog post). This morning in drill I got through all of my sentences, finished right on time, and included appropriate drills on yesterday’s third-declension noun morphology and indirect statement syntax. One student Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 8, 7:18 p.m.
I’m going slightly rogue right now. Ideally I should be hovering outside the doors of the classrooms where the second hour of morning drills is taking place, learning how to be a better teacher by observing my colleagues. Instead, I Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 7, 10:55 a.m.
DAY 6 was yesterday, June 18, 2012. It was the day of our first weekly exam, covering Units 1-4. Thus, a 3-hour test on the equivalent of one month of college Latin (arguably more) learned in one week. The exam Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 6
Sunday, June 16—Father’s Day, Bloomsday, and my first Sunday off from the Summer Latin Institute. There is an optional 2-hour review session at the Graduate Center this afternoon for students who want additional support in advance of tomorrow’s first weekly Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Weekend 1B
A corporate entity that provides salary & benefits for humanists to pursue theory & practice that speak to specialists, generalists, and the interested public alike. This is what humanists need as an alternative to the current incarnation of academia in Continue reading Notes Toward A Post-academic Humanism
Today is my first day off from the Summer Latin Institute. Slept till after 8:00 a.m. Yesterday, DAY 5, included morning drills as usual, and optional lunchtime grammar review and sight reading as usual, but no new grammar in the Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – Weekend 1A
Sipping coffee on my first Institute Friday morning. I made it. Our students made it. Here we are. No new morphology or syntax today. Morning drills followed by an afternoon review of all Week 1 material, Units 1-4, in preparation Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 5, 6:23 a.m.