Doctura te saluto

[sovay]

Tomorrow afternoon, for the first time in my life, I am going to teach a class. I have summer-taught Latin. I have TA'd literature classes. I have tutored Latin and Greek. I have never been responsible for the full-semester education of eighteen young minds in the grammatical basics of Latin, with an eye toward further advancement in Classics. This will be interesting.

I must remember to buy colored chalk.

Comments

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

One of my best teachers in high school was my latin teacher, who as far as I know didn't have an official teachign degree (don't know how she got the job), and was one of the few academic teachers who got a mixed level class. I imagine you're just as clear, just as imaginative, and probably just as inspired.

If they're being odd, you can always dig out those declension songs that my sister taught me. Unfortunately all I remember is that first declension goes with "Tea for Two".

And I Still owe you a meal in the location of my childhood or some reasonable facsimile. I do hope you're not charging interest on this one....

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

THe other thing I learned from her- when teaching parts of speach, throwing things really helps.

[sovay]

Whoa. Parallel evolution! The first time I summer-taught Latin, I learned that all you really need to teach a class about declension is a roll of aluminum foil. "I in the nominative case throw the aluminum foil in the accusative case to you in the dative case . . ."