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.

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[sovay]

Unless I am fortunate enough to get a room with a whiteboard, it's real chalk all right. Five minutes in, I am going to look like a miller.

How much do they already know?

"This course is designed as an introduction to Latin for students with no prior knowledge of the language. No background needed. The focus is on morphology (the forms of the language; declesions of nouns, conjugations of verbs) and syntax (grammatical functions and constructions), not on reading texts; although as the semester progresses we will begin to look at short examples of real Latin to supplement the exercises that Moreland and Fleischer have nicely written out for us. This is an intensive course. It moves quickly. On the assumption that you would like to be capable of reading the language as soon as possible, the idea is to read one unit per week—up through Unit 12 of Moreland and Fleischer's Latin: An Intensive Course—so that at the end of this semester, you will be prepared to take Latin 111b and start in on longer Latin texts."

I love my lesson plans. : )