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NEWSLETTER No. 48, Autumn 2014

March through Roman Britain with Quintus Melody Hannegan picked up this moody drawing of the Roman Baths at the city of Bath in England on an NACCP Tour. Now, as NACCP Tour Coordinator, she wants to help others add to their classroom teaching aids, as she did, while also visiting sites that will bring alive the CLC stories set in Roman Britain. So we are pleased to announce an NACCP Tour of Roman Britain for July 8 to 19, 2015.

To get you excited, here’s the planned itinerary: Following arrival at Gatwick Airport in London, travel via coach to Portsmouth to view Cogidbunus’ inscription in Chichester. Visit Fishbourne Palace, the cathedral in Salisbury and Stonehenge before traveling to Bath for three nights. Tour the Roman Baths and Abbey and follow a walking tour of the city. A day trip to Caerwent and Caerleon Roman Fortress in Wales is also planned. En route to an overnight in Stratford-on-Avon, you will visit Chedworth Roman Villa. As time permits, a walking tour of Stratford and an optional Shakespeare performance can be added. On to Chester, for the Grosvenor Museum and a walking tour of the city (atop the wall and out to the amphitheater). Then two nights in Hexham, from which you will visit Hadrian’s Wall, Housesteads Roman Fort and Chesters Fort, then Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum. After a stop at St. Albans, you will arrive at your final destination, London, for a two-night stay, allowing visits to the British and London Museums.

The cost of the land tour is $2850.00, and our tour company, Georgia Hardy Tours, is offering optional air transportation from Washington Dulles Airport for $850.00 plus approximately $615.00 in U.S. departure taxes. There may also be options for extending your travel either in London or in Iceland. To lessen the price of the tour, we plan to stay in university rooms in Bath and London and will not be including all meals. Also, expect full days and quite a bit of walking. There will be workshop sessions along the way, to facilitate transferring your tour experiences into the classroom for your students. We have been fortunate in engaging as our tour manager Patricia Bell, an experienced international tour director who also happens to be a retired CLC teacher who has edited and authored many Cambridge materials.

Go to our website (www.cambridgelatin.org) for the brochure (which is also enclosed with this newsletter) and a link to the secure application website and for an application for one of the two special $1000 scholarships to help defray costs.

Melody will be happy to answer any questions if you email her at tourcoordinator@cambridgelatin.org.

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Director’s Message Martha Altieri With summer over and another year underway, I hope each of you is back into the school routine rested and refreshed.

It was a very busy Cambridge summer with the three well-attended summer workshops in Williamsburg, Austin and Westford, sponsored by The Cambridge School Classics Project and Cambridge University Press. We had approximately 115 teachers participate this year. This was the third summer of the three-day workshops, and all have been very well received. You will read more about them, with accompanying group photos, on pages 6 and 7 in this newsletter. In addition, we conducted a free one-day workshop in Austin for elementary teachers that had 15 participants.

NACCP funded six $400 scholarships to enable teachers to attend the summer workshops, and we have decided to increase both the number and amount for next summer’s workshops. There will be ten $500 scholarships. The deadline for submitting a scholarship application will be May 1, 2015. Workshop dates and locations will be announced in October, and information will be available at either latinworkshop.com or cambridgelatin.org Scholarships for teachers to attend these workshops are made possible through your support of the Phinney-Gleason Scholarship Fund. One of the goals of NACCP this year is to increase the number of donations to that fund. We are asking those of you who can provide financial support to please return your tax-deductible donation in the envelope enclosed with this newsletter. We will respond with a letter acknowledging your donation.

After six years of outstanding service to NACCP, Robert Patrick is leaving the Executive Board. Bob has been a regular contributor to the NACCP listserv site on various aspects of teaching Latin. We thank him for his many years of service and appreciate his dedication and contributions to NACCP. NACCP’s continued focus is how we can support you and your colleagues in the classroom. We welcome your questions and feedback regarding your needs and suggestions. And as a reminder, Ginny Blasi, Donna Gerard and I can also provide free training to you or a group of your colleagues either at your site or online. Please contact us at clctraining @cambridge.org to discuss your specific need and how best for us to provide support.

Lucia visits the ACL Caecilius’ “new” daughter, Lucia, was on hand at this summer’s annual American Classical League Institute to help promote her debut in the forthcoming Fifth Edition of the Cambridge Latin Course. Naturally, she wasn’t able to make it “live”, but a large cardboard cut-out replica stood guard at the Cambridge University Press table in the book display room. Left, Jim Anderson, Senior National ESL/Classics Sales Manager for CUP and Ginny Blasi, Cambridge Latin Consultant, pose with their new-found friend.

Right, Lucia also made an appearance at the annual sing-along during the CUP Reception following the closing banquet. She stands watch over Stan Farrow, in Roman military garb at the piano, and his wife, Barb. Both photos are by Pat Bell.

When the decision was made to add Lucia to the stories, tenders were put out soliciting artists’ submissions for drawings involving the new daughter. Previous model sentence images were provided to suggest a style for new drawings to match. A number of professionals submitted their work, but the winning proposal was from Lisa Jiang, a UK high school student. Lisa is now 18 and enrolled at art school in London.

She will be able to add the CLC to her growing portfolio.

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Meet our Phinney-Gleason Scholarship Winners The fall NACCP Newsletter has always been proud to introduce readers to the winners of our Phinney-Gleason Memorial Scholarship, to congratulate them, to make readers aware of the excellent work they are doing and to encourage you to “go and do likewise.” But 2014 marks the first time we’ve had six winners to introduce to you, two for each of the summer workshops. You may want to take these profiles in small doses, because they are pretty impressive!

Both of our “Williamsburg” recipients are fairly new to teaching, but represent different sides of the country.

Amy Robertson teaches Latin I-IV at Lake Norman High School in Mooresville, NC. She has used Quia to create online exercises to provide individual student practice with vocabulary and grammar for 40 different chapters as well as creating online assessments for her students. She has created a Quia homepage for each class, with a weekly schedule, including hyperlinks to access materials via DropBox. She has recorded narration and converted PowerPoints into Quicktime movies for notes, history and mythology for each chapter. She modifies assessments and assignments for students with disabilities. She has taught three different classes for professional development at her school on how to use kinesthetic learning in the classroom, how to improve student engagement and how to use a Mac computer. She uses Latinteach to collaborate with teachers worldwide via email discussion.

Amy received a B.A. in Latin in 2007 from Louisiana State University and an M.A. in Teaching, concentrating on Latin, from the University of North Carolina in 2008. She has Secondary Education Certification in Latin (2008). Recognition for her abilities has been widespread: the Andrew A. Gunby Award for the most outstanding graduating senior by the Classics faculty, LSU in 2007; one of six nationwide awards in any subject area K-12 for the Google Earth Ancient Roman Curriculum contest for her lesson, “A tour of Rome fit for an Emperor”; and Lake Norman High School teacher of the month for May 2009 and November 2010. In April 2014 she was chosen as her school’s ClassDojo Mentor by the classroom dojo website staff.

Amy has been on the staff at Lake Norman since August 2008. She has been Foreign Language Department Chair and Professional Learning Community Chair from August 2011 to the present. She has mentored a first-year French teacher (2011-12), a first-year Latin teacher (2012-13) and a student teacher from Davidson College (spring 2012). Between leading and attending professional development workshops, she has seen to it that she and her colleagues continue to serve their students with up-to-date expertise and enthusiasm.

Since August 2012, Eleanor Stuart has taught Grades 9-12, Latin I, III Honors and Latin IV AP at Woodbridge High School in Irvine, CA. From 2010 to 2012 she handled Latin I-IV AP at Palm Desert High School in Palm Desert, CA. She was responsible for developing curriculum and assessments and for utilizing an assortment of teaching methods to meet the needs of a wide variety of students. She co-sponsors (at Woodbridge) and initiated (at Palm Desert) a JCL Chapter. The Woodbridge chapter has over 250 students. The Palm Desert chapter grew to the fourth largest in California in just its second year. Simultaneously she created a more rigorous Latin program there and took her top AP students to UC Irvine, where they met with professors of Classics, sat in on a 400-person Mythology lecture and an Attic Greek class and took a campus tour.

Eleanor earned her B.A. in Classics in 2009, her Single Subject Teaching Credential in Latin (2010) and an M.A. in Teaching (2011), all from the University of California, Irvine.

She was the recipient of the Theodore Brunner and Luci Berkowitz Award in Classics at UC Irvine. Her accolades also include the Eta Sigma Phi Classics Honors Society; Prytanis, Eta Sigma Phi, Delta Chapter; and Tau Sigma Transfer Honors Society.

Our “Austin” recipients represent neighboring states but a wider variety of teaching experience.

Patricia Smith is the “veteran” on our list of winners. She received her B.A. Cum Laude from Baylor University in 1973, gaining her Texas Educator Certificate in Spanish and Latin. She began her teaching career as a Junior High and High School Spanish Teacher in the Red Oak School District in 1973-74. She was a Remedial Reading teacher at Wooten Elementary (Red Oak ISD) 1975-76. From 1976 to February 2003 she was the Spanish and Latin teacher at Lancaster High School, serving as Foreign Language Department Chair for 25 of (continued on page 4)

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SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS (cont. from page 3) those years. She taught Spanish part-time at Pettigrew Academy, Waxahachie after retiring from Lancaster, and then became the Spanish teacher at 9th Grade Academy, Waxahachie ISD for the full 2003-04 school year. Thirty-five years after graduating from Waxahachie High School in 1970, she returned to teach Spanish there, 2005-06. Since then she has been the Spanish and Latin teacher at Global High School in Waxahachie, TX, where she also lives.

Over the years, she has become adept at adapting instruction to match students’ needs.

She has often enriched the text book to incorporate higher-level thinking skills. She has designed and implemented lessons to teach TEKS skills, and has grouped and analyzed data based on student assessments. Her professional training has covered a myriad of topics: project-based learning, Texas Foreign Language Association workshops, technology-based learning conferences for STEM and Early College High Schools, Region X seminars for mentoring, C-Scope training, technology in the classroom training, Web 2.0 training, Thinking Maps, ESL certification prep, Early College High School protocols, CPR - and now the Cambridge summer workshop!

Pat was named Teacher of the Year, Waxahachie Global High, in 2010. She was a Mentor Teacher at Lancaster for four years. She has accompanied students on five European/Mexican travel excursions. She was on the Campus Improvement Committee, Lancaster ISD for eight years and at Waxahachie for three years. She was a National Honor Society Advisor in Lancaster for twelve years and in Waxahachie for two. She was a PTA member for sixteen years, being named a Life Member in 2003.

Julie Grissom is from Oklahoma City, OK. Since the fall of 2013 she has taught Latin I to AP at Southmore High School, Moore Public Schools. From 2008 to 2013 she taught Introductory Latin through Latin IV at the Classen School of Advanced Studies, Oklahoma City Public Schools. Her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma (2001) is in Classics (Latin Option, Minor in Anthropology). But going beyond those details, her background is probably unique amongst the workshop participants this past summer. Her M.A. from the University of Oklahoma (2004) was in the History of Science, with her thesis title “Explaining Plague in Early Modern Europe: The Role of Contagion in the Theories of Girolamo Fracastoro and Thomas Willis.” Her Ph.D, also in the History of Science (May 2014), involved a dissertation on “Parasitic Worms in Early Modern Science and Medicine, 1650-1810.”

Her professional career has bounced between her two areas of expertise and interest.

In addition to teaching Latin at the middle school and high school level, she has also taught Beginning Latin in the Department of Classics and Letters and Medical Terminology for the Center for Independent and Distance Learning at the University of Oklahoma. As a teaching assistant in the Department of the History of Science at OU, her courses included History of Science to the Age of Newton: the Origins and Early Development of Science; the Foundation and Growth of Modern Science (since the 17th century); and Science and Civilization in Islam. Courses taught as an instructor include Science in the Ancient World and Modern Medicine: A Historical Introduction. Also during her time as a graduate student, she spent a year as an editorial assistant to the Isis Current Bibliographer.

Julie received the OU Alumni Graduate Fellowship 2002-06, a Graduate Student Senate Research and Conference Grant (spring 2008), a National Science Foundation Travel Grant (fall 2008) and a Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant (fall 2009 and spring 2010). She is an alumni member of Eta Sigma Phi, Alpha Lambda Chapter. She is a member of the Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association, the American Classical League, the History of Science Society and the American Association for the History of Medicine. She has also served as State Chair of the Oklahoma JCL for the past four years and is looking forward to another great year.

Finally, our two “Westford” recipients again represent the west and east coasts.

For the 2014-15 school year, Sarah McGinnis is teaching Latin I, II, III and AP at La Colina Junior and San Marcos Senior High Schools in Santa Barbara, CA, mixing 47-minute and 90-minute class periods. In 2013-14 she was at Dos Pueblos High School, teaching Latin I-III, Advanced Topics and a hybrid course, with 57-minute (continued on page 5)

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SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS (cont. from page 4) periods. At both schools she was the JCL sponsor. In addition she coached the Freshman Girls Basketball Team and the Junior Varsity Boys Golf Team at Dos Pueblos. She is taking part in the Santa Barbara County Education Office’s “Induction Program” 2013-2015. From January to June 2013, she planned and implemented 90 days of instruction for three Latin I classes (90-minute periods) at Nashua High School South, in Nashua, NH. She met with students after school on Tuesdays (as she also did at Dos Pueblos on Wednesdays at lunch and Fridays after school) to extend and/or reinforce the curriculum. She co-hosted the Latin Club and Latin Honor’s Society while also attending the monthly “Beginning Education Cohort” meetings run by the Nashua School District.

Sarah earned her B.A. in Classics, Emphasis in Classical Languages with Minors in American Indian Studies and English in 2009 from San Diego State University. In 2013 she received her California State Teaching Certificate Credential Single Subject: Latin/Spanish from California State University and her Beginning Educator Certificate:Latin from New Hampshire. She also attended Spanish Immersion Programs at Universidad de Malaga in Spain in 2007 and Wiracocha Language School, Cusco, Peru in 2010.

During those years, she had quite a varied assortment of educational adventures. In 2008-09 she was a Student Mentor and Tutor for American Indian Recruitment in San Diego. In July 2009 she was a Camp Counselor at Camp Hope, Family Justice Center, San Diego. In the fall of 2009 she worked as a Youth Development Specialist in the Center for Community Solutions in San Diego. From March to November 2010, she was an English teacher for the Chilean Ministry of Education in Valdivia, Chile. From February to October 2011 she was an ESL Instructor at Newton International College, Cypress, CA, overlapping with a stint as Graduate Assistant, Pagan Cultures Course, at CSU from August 2011 to May 2012. In the fall term of 2012 she was a Spanish and Latin Tutor for Miss Bee’s Tutoring, utilizing TPRS methods for individual and small-group learning. Finally, from July 2012 to January 2013, she was a Student Teacher in Latin (20 weeks for two classes on Latin II and one class of Latin I) at the King Drew Medical Magnet School, Los Angeles.

Awards have included a Friends of Classics Fellowship at San Diego State (2005), the Most Improved Scholar Award, San Diego State Panhellenic (2008), the Earl H. and Grace Jackson Scholarship, the Delta Gamma Society International Scholarship and the Bernice Fox Teacher Training Scholarship, Eta Sigma Phi (all in 2012). She is a member of the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages; the California Classics Association, Southern Section; and the American Classical League. From spring 2011 to fall 2012 she was Grammateus (Secretary) for Eta Sigma Phi in charge of organizing fundraisers for student scholarships, biannual speakers and three promotional events for the study of Classics.

Dorothea Maxwell’s education and teaching experience are all based in New Jersey.

Her B.A. (Cum Laude in English) and her Post-B.A. Program for Instructional Teaching Certificate (Latin) are both from Montclair State University. She also has a Master of Letters, Magna Cum Laude from Drew University.

Her first year of teaching, 1992-93, was a leave replacement position in English at Kearny High School, Kearny, NJ. She taught Latin and English in the Morris Hills Regional District, Rockway, NJ from 1996 to 1998, when the Latin program was phased out. From 1998 to 2006 she moved to Summit High School, Summit, NJ primarily as an English teacher for Grades 9-12 and instructor in the High School Writing Center. But in most years she also taught one or two sections of Latin anywhere from Grades 7 to 12.

She wrote district curricula for both Latin and English courses, served as a cooperating teacher for student teachers, developed grant proposals, created and maintained a curricula resource center for the school English Department, advised various student activities and mentored mainly “at risk” students. In 2006-07 she was a Latin teacher for Rutherford, NJ middle schools, instructing Grades 7-8 students at Pierrepont and Union. She was also Co-Advisor of the World Language Club at Union School. From 2008 to 2013 she took on the same responsibilities for the Cranford, NJ middle schools, handling Grades 6-8 at Orange Avenue and Hillsdale Avenue Schools. She was a member of the District Professional (continued on page 6)

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SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS (cont. from page 5) Development Committee and of the District Professional Development Council. Since September 2013 she has taught Latin at Bernards High School, Bernardsville, NJ, instructing Latin I-IV Honors.

In 2013 Dorothea was an Edna White Scholarship Recipient for study at the American Academy in Rome, School of Classical Studies, which she attended from June to August. In 2002 she was a Geraldine R. Dodge foundation Creative Writing Award/Scholarship Recipient. And, in her avocational interests, she has won the New Jersey Community Theatre Award for her work as a Stage Manager. Professional affiliations include Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education, the National Council of Teachers of English, and a current term as Vice President (2012-16) of the New Jersey Classical Association.

Ephy Howard, the NACCP Scholarship Chair, was overjoyed this year to receive so many outstanding applications and to be able to award the maximum number of scholarships for this past summer’s workshops. It is interesting to note that when she asked applicants how they heard about the award, the answers included personal messages from members of the NACCP Board, notification from the State Classical Association and information on the NACCP website or in newsletters. So, thinking ahead to 2015, when we have ten $500 scholarships available, plus two $1000 scholarships for those wishing to join the Roman Britain adventure, spread the word or put together an application yourself. And please consider making a donation to the Phinney-Gleason Scholarship Fund by using the envelope enclosed in the newsletter.We need to continue our support for such valued teaching.

2014 Summer Workshops Draw a Crowd The attendance at this past summer’s C a m b r i d g e workshops was quite gratifying. On this page you can see group photos from Austin and Westford. On page 7 is a report on the Williamsburg conference (a good indication of the positive feelings f ro m e a c h g e t together) and a group photo of the Williamsburg participants.

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We asked Adonia Chadwell to represent workshop attendees, and her report from Williamsburg is quite upbeat!

Last year, I was lucky to be awarded a scholarship to attend a Cambridge workshop. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend because of my husband’s unexpected military orders. I was grateful when I was told that my scholarship would be honored for one of the 2014 workshops. I anxiously waited for June to come around so that I could attend both the American Classical League Conference AND the Cambridge Latin Course Workshop. Then my car broke down en route. I didn’t think that I’d make it. Thankfully, my husband and his friend drove to where I was, they were able to fix the problem and I arrived safely in Williamsburg, Virginia.

After participating in various, informative workshops during the American Classical League conference, I was ready to learn even more. Boy, did the presenters come through! Martha Altieri, Donna Gerard, Virginia Blasi and Will Griffiths were upbeat, enthusiastic and passionate during their presentations. It was wonderful, and I felt renewed and re-energized. They were thorough in their explanations, demonstrated various strategies, got us up and out of our seats and talked with each of us personally. There was a plethora of information, strategies and resources. I left daily with information overload, thinking about how I could incorporate everything that I learned.

While all of the sessions were informative, I did have a few favorites. The first session was an introduction to the reading method. During this session, I learned why the CLC introduces some of the topics in a certain order. I never understood why genitive wasn’t introduced until Stage 17 and now it’s clearer. Adjectives, relative clauses and the genitive case are formally addressed in later stages and in succession because all three features typically follow the noun which they modify. This word order supports the reading method, reading Latin text from left to right. I found Martha’s presentation on pacing very useful. She went through an example of how she determines her pacing, keeping her end goal of AP in mind. Sticking to a schedule is important. I struggled with that my first year because I wasn’t sure how much time I should spend on a stage, especially on the modified A/B block schedule. Sessions 3 and 4 were also outstanding and the most useful to me. Session 3 focused on reading strategies, including TWENTY-NINE ways to approach a story……TWENTY-NINE!!! During session 4, Donna provided a detailed explanation of how to plan a stage and included a variety of sample activities, practice sheets and quizzes. This helped me tremendously, giving me an idea of how to plan each stage.

I am so happy that I had the opportunity to attend. My only regret is that I couldn’t do it sooner. I left Williamsburg with more ideas than I know what to do with. I know that I can’t incorporate everything right away.

Now I just have to decide on what I want to use first. This was, hands down, the best professional development that I’ve participated in.

We are a military family and move often. I never know where I’ll teach and what book series I’ll use, but I learned strategies that can be applied no matter where we go.

These summer days were definitely well spent.

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Robert Patrick Honored by ACL with a Meritus Award The NACCP is always proud to celebrate the achievements of our Board members, and indeed of any members of the extended “Cambridge” family. In this issue we offer congratulations to Bob Patrick who was presented with the coveted Meritus Award at this year’s American Classical League banquet on June 28 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. As Martha Altieri has reported (page 2), Bob is stepping down this year from the NACCP Board.

But our sadness at losing him can be balanced by knowing his contributions to our organization and its support for teachers formed part of the reason for his achievement. In keeping with a tradition in this newsletter, we are reprinting the testimonial read out at the presentation: Since 1989 this awardee has devoted himself to teaching and studying the classics. At the same time he has aided students and teachers of Classics, Latin and Greek with his memberships in ACL, CAMWS, Georgia Classical Association, the American Conference of Foreign Language teachers and other organizations. His professional service includes positions of Bob’s acceptance speech through the eyes of his proud family responsibility and influence.

His c.v. reflects his lively interest in a variety of aspects of the field of Classics including training in Rassias’ method of language learning, training in teaching proficiency through reading and storytelling, and most recently a Ph.D. from the University of Florida where he wrote a dissertation on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

His scholarly and teaching interests are wide-ranging and include Ovid, especially the Metamorphoses and Fasti, landscape themes in Augustan poets, comparative studies PHINNEY-GLEASON between Roman and Celtic literary sources and language MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS acquisition theory and its application to Latin pedagogy.

In addition to teaching in Parkview High School in Lilburn, Georgia, he has also taught as an adjunct lecturer at Georgia State University and Spring Hill College.

As his vita illustrates, the awards that he has earned are welldeserved and confirmed at local, state and regional levels.

Teaching awards include Foreign Language Teacher of the Year (Georgia); Georgia Latin Teacher of the Year-Georgia Classical Association; and Teacher of the Year, Parkview High School, to name a few.

This awardee’s “teaching” includes travel enabling students Ten $500 Scholarships for to experience Classical culture in situ. His presentations will Cambridge School Classics Project be familiar to many of you, as they explore a range of topics, Summer Workshops in 2015 often focusing on foreign language teaching, e.g. “Preparing Teachers for Second Language Acquisition”, “The Tuition, lodging, meals and/or travel up to a total of $500 Communicative Approach in the Latin Classroom” (University Application Deadline: May 1, 2015 of Sheffield, UK) and “Breathing New Life into Ancient Information and application form at Tongues”. http://www.cambridgelatin.org For all his accomplishments and his energetic stewardship of the field of Classics, plaudite quaeso Robert Patrick.

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