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.
• Bullas. This is a Google Slides presentation about bullas that includes links to a video about Roman life, and my instructions on how to make student bullas. This is specific for my classes but you can make a copy and edit out what you don't need.
• 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.)

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

• Felicem natalem tibi song. (Happy Birthday to You) For the last two years I have had students write their names on one of the Bolchazy-Carducci calendars that I receive  and hang it on the wall right by where I write the agendas so that I can keep track of whose birthday it is. Then I just make sure I have the Google Slides loaded and ready so we can all sing. 
• VINCO song (Bingo the dog). 
• Aufer Me Ad Arenam (to the tune of Take Me Out to the Ballgame, written by Judith Hallett)
• Rudolphus (Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer)
• Aquifolia Ornatis (Deck the Halls)
• Tintini (Jingle Bells)
• ¡Feliz Navidad! (in Spanish & Latin - No English!) 
• Diem Christi Album (White Christmas)

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

• Armaturae: Ego-Video Libellus Gladiatorum (I-Spy Book of Gladiators). I made this little booklet ages ago to along with a wild idea of playing a reverse sort of hangman. It's still a useful little booklet, with info about graffiti score keeping et al.  I also made an instruction sheet on how to do reverse hangman.
• How to Write a Pompeian Election Slogans (Oro Vos Faciatis). I made/revised this booklet to aide specifically in running elections in class in conjunction with Stage 11 of the Cambridge Latin Course.
• Rusticatio General Booklet. This booklet was designed for SALVI's Rusticatio held at the Claymont Estate in West Virginia. It features the layout of the house and some general vocabulary.
• Rusticatio Food Booklet. This booklet was designed for SALVI's Rusticatio held at the Claymont Estate in West Virginia. It features the food available for eating at Rusticatio.
• Rusticatio Outdoors Booklet. This booklet was designed for SALVI's Rusticatio held at the Claymont Estate in West Virginia. It features the grounds that you can walk and creatures you might see at Rusticatio.
• Primus Libellus Verba Utilissima. This booklet was designed to be a generally helpful spoken Latin booklet for any event.

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! 

• Latin Snow Cat (YouTube)
• Latin Snow Business (YouTube)
• Latin Let Me In (YouTube)

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. 

• “The Biduum Experience: Speaking Latin to Learn Latin” published in Teaching Classical Languages Spring 2015 (REFEREED).
• “Principles of Learning in a Middle School Latin Classroom” published in CAMWS/CJ 2006 (REFEREED)
• “A Ghost's Tale: Musings on the Film Scenario.” Texas Classics in Action, Summer 1998. Reprinted in The Classical Outlook, Volume 76, Number 4. Summer 1999. (REFEREED)
• “Lindsey Davis: An Interview with the Author of Silver Pigs.” Texas Classics in Action, Winter 1993. Reprinted in Mysterious Women, Winter 1996.

PRESENTATIONS 

• CAMWS-SS & TCA: “The Time-Travel Passport: Promoting Spoken Latin in a Reading-Based Classroom” (Oct. 2018 & Nov. 2018) 
  PAPER  *  GOOGLE SLIDES [NB Many of the videos of students were not retained when I shifted my files from the school server. me paenitet.]
• ACL: “Recapturing the Joy of Reading Latin” (June 2016) (Joint presentation with Caroline Kelly) 
  GOOGLE SLIDES (slides 1-19 were my part)  *  MAIN HANDOUT  *  PREASSESSMENT QUESTIONS *  READING WITH EXPECTATIONS HANDOUT  *  OFFPRINT OF "RESOLVING AMBIGUOUS FORMS IN LATIN"
• TCA: “What’s in Your Latin Toolbox? Developing Reading Skills” (Fall 2013) 
  PAPER AND HANDOUT
• Austin College Summer Language Institute: “Building Solid Reading Skills” (Summer 2013)
  HANDOUT
• TFLA: “From Caecilius to Caesar: Building Reading Skills in the Latin Classroom” (Fall 2012) [NB This paper was just a revision of following paper.]
  PAPER  *  HANDOUT
• CAMWS: “From Caecilius to Aeneas: Thoughts on Growing a Successful Latin Program Using the Cambridge Latin Course” (2010) 
  PAPER  AND  HANDOUT