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A LATIN CLASS DIVERSION - Shakespeare's Pyramus & Thisbe Skit in Latin
YOU CAN MAKE A DRAMATIC DIFFERENCEA fun theatrical project to challenge and exercise students of Latin. This short skit is written in Latin and is a cutting from Shakespearean "Midsummer Night's Dream". This Latin class diversion is perfect for use in the classroom or can be presented on the stage. Increase translation, reading and/or performance skills with this unique Latin script. It is particularly suited for presentation at school assemblies, in classroom use, and/or commencement exercis
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7th - 12th
Cantorclarus et Vulpes: The Rooster and the Fox
Intermediate level story. This is a retelling of the classic French folk-tale about Chanticleer et le Renard. The proud rooster Chanticleer learns a lesson about humility and outwits the sly fox. Warm-up exercises included.
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Not Grade Specific
Testāmentum Porcellī (The Piglet's Will): A Bite-Sized Ancient Latin Treasure
The Testāmentum Porcellī, whose authorship is unknown, likely dates from about the mid-300s A.D. A favorite among Roman schoolchildren for its farcical, ribald tone and somewhat singsong grammatical patterns, the text, comically following and punning on legalese conventions, tells the woefully fatal tale of one Marcus Grunnius Corocotta, the will’s eponymous porcellus. Apparently fated for the Saturnalia table, the piglet with impish defiance allots his possessions, including those of a corporea
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Reading Latin in Scripta Continua format for Understanding
Latin as the Romans saw it was written without spaces or punctuation. Given that premise that much classical Latin was indeed written in the form of scriptio (scripta) continua even after the acceptance of the interpunct as a word separator, this exercise gives practice in visualizing what the written language might have looked like if only sentences were written in scripta continua. There is evidence in Latin literature that whole passages were written thusly. Included here are three passages w
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Cicero: "On Friendship"
Cicero's dialogue "On Friendship" examines the unique value of friendship and connects the idea of being a caring and compassionate person with being a good friend. After all, if someone cared only about themselves, how could they ever be a good friend? About the author: Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in Arpinum in 106 BC. Cicero was a contemporary of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, although Cicero was a lawyer and a scholar, not a military leader. The years in which Cicero lived were tumult
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10th - 12th
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