signs for your classroom

  • Bathroom and water fountain signs (licetne mihi ire ad latrinam and licetne mihi ire ad fontem aquae). These are PDF files. Just print, trim, and post. 
  • Weather Signs. These are PDF files. Print two-sided and laminate. We do the weather as a "job" at the beginning of class in my room. 
  • Days of the week signs (dies Solis, etc). These are PDF files. Print, trim, and then I folded and taped the top over some twine and then strung them across the corner of my room.

Instructional materials

  • Pronunciation Guide with Alphabet. This is a PDF file designed to be used with the Cambridge Latin Course. It is based on the pronunciation guide in Wheelock's Latin (with the permission of the revisions editor, Rick LaFleur). It's been recently revised to include a guide to pronouncing the alphabet as well. Use it as a resource with the following three Google Slides (Abecedarium and Patibulum, Accenting Latin Words, Dividing Words.)
  • Alphabet Bookmark and Numbers Bookmark (PDF files) which I usually print front and back. (You used to be able to get perforated bookmark paper from Paper Direct, but apparently they no longer carry it. If I find a substitute, I will post a link.)
  • Accenting Latin words. This is a Google Slides presentation that is a flow chart explaining the rules for accenting words.
  • Dividing Words. This is a Google Slides presentation which I made by request after I made the accenting slides.​
  • Names and Bullas MMXX. This is a massively revised Google Slides presentation which now includes information about Roman names and how to help students choose a name for class. The bulla section has been expanded to include instructional videos to make bullas, lunulas, and how to decorate them. Use this presentation with the following handout.
  • Roman Names & Bullas 2020 handout. (PDF file) ​This handout was designed to teach students about Roman names but to also decide on a Latin name to use throughout the year. It includes a list of known nomina from the Roman world as well as ideas for coming up with a fitting Latin name. This revised version now has instructions on how to make bullas for students.
  • The US and (yes) Texas Pledges of Allegiance. This is a Google Slides presentation. I don't force my students to say the pledge in Latin (because some won't do the pledge at all for religious reasons), but I confess to enjoying doing this myself. Here is a print (PDF) version.
  • SID SPACE the ablative astronaut. This is a Google Slides presentation with some cool animation effects. 
  • Perfect Tense song to the tune of Three Blind Mice. This is a Google Slides presentation to help students learn the formation of the perfect tense.
  • LindzeysModelSentences for Latin 1. This is a Google Slides presentation of the model sentences I created to use with the Cambridge Latin Course to help level 1 students learn and internalize the nominative, dative, and accusative case endings. The slides are animated to cover up one word at a time while chanting the sentences (one line at a time). I make it a race to see how fast we can get through it in each class and put times on the board to compete. 
  • How Do I Know? (Model Sentences) for Latin 1 (PDF file)  This is a handout I use to help consolidate student understanding of the model sentences and the nominative, dative, and accusative cases.
  • Endless Noun Ending Song & Noun chart. This is a Google Slides presentation that just combines the song from YouTube plus a noun chart on the same screen.
  • How Do I Know? (Using My Noun Chart) for Latin 2 (PDF file)  These are handouts I use to help consolidate student understanding of the cases in Latin 2.
  • How Do I Know? (Using My Noun Chart) for Latin 3 (PDF file)  These are handouts I use to help consolidate student understanding of the cases in Latin 3.
  • Reading Cards and Reading Cards with Full Noun Chart. (PDF files - print on perforated postcard stock paper) These cards are useful for demonstrating and developing reading in word order and the use of metaphrasing to help in retraining the brain to accept Latin word order.
  • Tips for Reading Latin bookmarks (PDF file) based on the ten rules for reading Latin in Dexter Hoyos's Latin: How to Read it Fluently. (You used to be able to get perforated bookmark paper from Paper Direct, but apparently they no longer carry it. If I find a substitute, I will post a link.)
  • Interjections Handout. (PDF file) I created this handout a while back (originally by just reading through the dictionary and looking for them! I believe this version has some improvements by Patrick Owens.

games

  • Abecedarium and Patibulum (alphabet song and hangman). This is a Google Slides presentation which I use before playing a little hangman with students. This is a great way to work on pronunciation and attention to long vs short vowels for level 1 students. BE SURE to look at the notes I have placed in the slides before you run the presentation.
  • Bombax. This is a Google Slides presentation. Bombax is a number game which can also be used as a great brain break.
  • I Piscatum / Go Fish. [See also Ludi Latini below!] This is a longer Google Slides presentation for how to play Go Fish in Latin. There are notes on most of the pages, explaining the research I had done years ago for playing cards in Latin, on the choices for vocabulary (I don't use the Greek names for some of the cards), ways to adapt it for building more oral conversation, etc etc. So read the notes, please! 
  • I Piscatum Handout (PDF file).  This is a sheet that I pass out to students when we play Go Fish. Their security blanket. 
  • I Piscatum Name Plate (PDF file). This is a sheet folds into a trifold--each side is a different declension: 1st, 2nd, 3rd. If students have Latin names, they can use this name plate while playing to help others learn the correct forms of their name.
  • Ludi Latini. Save this file to your phone's desktop to use as if it were an app., including navigating by the buttons. Ludi Latini is a suite of guides for games which promote speaking Latin. Play in the classroom or with friends. It includes Abecedarium / Patibulum (Hangman), Bombax, and I Piscatum, all rolled into one.  

Songs

mini-booklets (Go HERE to learn how to fold)

Latin Simon's Cat Videos

In 2015 I experimented with adding Latin subtitles to short Simon's Cat cartoons to use for a movie talk. Of course, a movie talk is probably better if you don't have any text and students need to just listen to you and watch. I've recently added them to a new YouTube channel (since I can't access my old school one!). And don't ask me what program I used to add captions; I honestly don't remember! 

CLC Materials: Google Slides

I had not included specific Cambridge Latin Course materials on here before because I was concerned that there might be copyright concerns. But considering the problems with Covid and the needs of so many for online instructional material, I think it would be worthwhile to at least have links to materials for a while. 

In my final years of teaching, I was teaching Latin 1 and Latin 4. The Google Slides I have to share are mainly those, and mainly for Unit 1 of CLC and some for Unit 2. Still there is some useful information in the slides.

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CLC Materials: QUIA exercises

I also still have my quia.com materials that I began building 20 years ago, as crazy as that sounds. The pages are still in use by my colleagues at Dripping Springs so the information at the top of the pages may change according to their students' needs. And they may have rearranged what items are appearing on the pages. So this is not entirely reliable. 

When I first began creating QUIA materials, I mainly built vocab drills plus practice versions of my in-context vocab quizzes. While some people only saw these as previewing questions (thus memorization), my intent was to help students understand what details were being targeted and why. Most everything has detailed feedback in order to increase understanding. 

As I began building more advanced materials to cover specific grammatical concepts, I mined the textbook for examples. I wanted students to be able to reflect back to a story and remember the context as well as to see just how many times and concept had been presented in the stories in the stage. 

The QUIA materials only go through Stage 40, with a few things in other stages beyond. There's also some quia material for AP, but I stopped teaching AP a few years ago (mainly when my district went to block scheduling because I felt we just could not move through the material fast enough to be ready for AP, let alone be able to cover the AP syllabus. I still taught some Caesar and Vergil, but other authors too. 

MY ADVICE: If you really like any of my QUIA materials, you should set up your own QUIA site and import them. BUT if you do so, please give me credit. I'm sure I invested thousands of hours making the materials, and most have macrons. 
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Articles

I will be going through files and searching links for articles that I have written. I will also start reposting some articles from my old blog to my new blog located on this site. 

PRESENTATIONS