Author: Ben Johnson

The Latin long term substitute position at Brunswick High School is still open, from now until at least Christmas. For more information, please contact me at [email protected] or reach out to Brunswick High School. Read more →

Highly skilled Latinist Justin Slocum Bailey will give a talk at UMass Boston on Wednesday, October 24 from 5-8 pm, entitled, Engaging the Whole Reader: “Active Latin” as a bridge between student and text. This talk is sponsored by the Department of Classics & Religious Studies and CANE. Read more →

The Society for Classical Studies is announcing an award for K-12 teachers given annually by the Society for Classical Studies: the Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate level. The nomination requirements have recently been simplified and the value of the award increased: $500.00 (cash), $200.00 (materials budeget), and plane fare plus two nights in the conference hotel at… Read more →

The Maine Classical Association is happy to announce the Fall Meeting, coming up on October 13, 2018, at Colby College. Hamish Cameron of Bates College will present a talk entitled, “Sing, Designer, of the Wrath of Achilles: Ancient World Games as Critical Reading Opportunities,” while Hannah Culik-Baird of Boston University will talk about Lucilius the Satirist. And finally we will conclude with Christopher Welser of… Read more →

The CANE Writing Contest is now available for students and teachers. Download the guidelines at this link. A brief description is below.   “‘…sed iam felicior aetas terga dedit, tremuloque gradu venit aegra senectus, quae patienda diu est (nam iam mihi saecula septem acta vides): superest, numeros ut pulveris aequem, ter centum messes, ter centum musta videre. Tempus erit, cum… Read more →

I’ve just been informed that Brunswick High School is in need of a long-term sub for Latin for the next couple of months. For more information, please contact me at [email protected] or reach out to Brunswick High School. Read more →

If you were unable to make it to the MCA Spring Meeting this past weekend, you can still download and read the Spring CLAMOR (gratias optimas, Seth!) at this link here. Check out past CLAMORES at our archive here. Read more →

Maine Public’s Maine Calling show on Monday, April 23, will have Bowdoin Classicist Barbara Weiden Boyd and Waynflet’s Phuc Tran (famous among other things for his TED talk on the subjunctive) to discuss Latin. Listen and please call in! The show will be on your local MPBN radio station from 1-2 pm. Read more →

The Maine Classical Association’s Spring Meeting at Hampden Academy is less than a week away (Saturday, April 28). If you are planning on attending, but haven’t yet registered, please do so now! Learn more about the meeting here, and register at this link. Read more →

Along with her offerings at St. Joseph’s in Standish, Maine, Jill Crooker is offering two courses at Taft School in Connecticut. See below for the descriptions, and learn more from Taft’s own website. Basics of Teaching the AP Latin course – July 8-13 Some of the questions on the Facebook AP Latin Teachers site during the past year were: how to… Read more →