Showing posts with label pedagogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pedagogy. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Pompeiiana XXI.6, February 1995


Content: "In Via ad Infernum Multi ad Caelum Suspiciebant", "Pompeii: The Last Battle", "Hannibal" poem, "Teaching Mythology at Your Local Museum of Art", "The Mellow God", "How Are You Doing in Latin?", "The Fateful Day" poem, "Don't Catapult in the Dark! Pompeiiana Has the Blueprints!", "Self-Scourge for Valentine's Day" poem, "Gaius Julius Caesar" poem, "Trials and Triumphs" poem, Roga Me Aliquid, "Eucleidian Memoirs", "Student Receives Letter from Eros", "Pompeii" poem, "Computer Catches and Caveats for Latin Lovers", Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Legal Latin" puzzle, "Libri Discipulis ad Universitatem Proficiscentibus" puzzle, "Search for Roman Military" puzzle, "Weaving Your Way Through Cicero" puzzle, "Body Parts" puzzle, Picturae Moventes, "State Mottoes" puzzle, "Looking to the Sky" puzzle, "Res in Schola" puzzle, "Latin Boggle", Libri Optimi, "The Palatine Hill . . . From Rags to Riches to Ruins", Dextro Pede, "Catullus 101" poem, "The Legacy of Paris" poem, "Without Diana There Would be no Cereal", "Make Your Move to Mythical Meadows Now!", reading comprehension quesions from page one, Caveant Emptor Vendorque, comics page, answer key for teachers.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Pompeiiana XXI.4, December 1994


Content: "Cuniculus Parvus Qui Saturnum Vidit", "Pompeii: A Survivor's Account", "Latin Now Cruising the Information Highway", "The Quest for the Golden Yak", "Jason and Medea in the Nineties" poem, "Mrs. Claus, Thy Time Has Come, and Apparently Passed", "Old St. Peter's", "How Are You Doing in Latin", "Are Your Classes Tired of S.O.S.?", "Footprints in the Earth", "The Fat, Hairy Women of Pompeii", Roga Me Aliquid, "Arachnophobia" poem, "Don't Pen Epitaph for Latin Just Yet", "Leto Explains Why Temples are Built", "De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum" poem, "Haec Domus Vetus" crossword, "Cryptoquote" puzzle, "Picturae Moventes" puzzle, Picturae Moventes, "States and Their Flag Mottos" puzzle, Carmina Optima et Eoarum Auctores", "Take It Slow: Stuff You Should Know" puzzle, "Emperor Scramble", "Gods, Goddesses and Characters" puzzle, "Carmina Latina" puzzles, Libri Optimi, "Latin Rebus", "A Life in Brief: Cicero", "Finding New Life in a 'Dead' Language", "Where's Arachne?", "The Diary of Spartacus", "Dextro Pede", "Hector" poem, "Attack of the Laestrygonians" puzzle, "Latin with Ms. Mitchell" poem, "Caveant Emptor Vendorque", reading comprehension questions from page one, comics page, answer keys for teachers.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Pompeiiana XV.8, April 1989


Content: "Arnoldus Schwarzenegger", "Maureen O'Donnell: Teacher of Latin Par Excellence", "April 21: The Birthday of Rome", "Latin and the Idiot Factor", "We Come to Praise Caesarea", "Musae Romanae: The Theogony (I.30-115)", "Julius Caesar" poem, "Poema in Indianese Scriptum", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Poemata in Ohiense Scripta", "The Eternal City of...?", "Myths in Art: Prometheus", "Pyramus and Thisbe" poem, "Sing Along with Terpsichore", "Epidaurus", "Floral and Faunal Myths: Magpies, Swans and Reeds", "Roman Clue" game, "Claudia's Kitchen", "I Know Your Name", "Sonnet XVIII", Classified Ads, "Amatorculae Litterae", "Poemata in Novo Eboraco Scripta", "J. Paul Getty Museum", "Carmina Optima et Auctores Eorum", "Proscriptiones" puzzle, "Acronymic Mythology" puzzle, "Translation" wordsearch, "How Many Myths do you Know" puzzle, "Mystery of Myths" puzzle, "Word Jumble", Budding Genius quiz, "Nuntia Arcana", "The Labors of Hercules" puzzle, "Corporis Partes" wordsearch, "Mostly Greek Mythology" crossword puzzle, reading comprehension questions from page one, Comics page, answer key for teachers.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Pompeiiana XV.7, March 1989


Pompeiiana Newsletter is now back from haiatus and resumes its schedule of five issues/week!

Content: "Elisabetha Mediatrix" (Bette Middler), "If You Think Julius Caesar Doesn't Matter to Us, Try Living with the Old Lunar Calendar!", "The Twenty-First Century: Let's Get It Right From the Start!", "In Memoriam: Frank Fowle II", "Latin May be Precise, but Try Getting Two Latin Teachers to Agree Precisely", "Hey, Caesar, Don't You Know Which Way North Is?", "Verus Amor", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Fun with Words", "Musae Romanae: The Tears of the Muses", "Update on Romulus' Walls", "Authentic Roman Coins Still on the Market", "Little Tullia", "Caesar Not Delivered by Caesarean Section", "Myths in Art: Nemesis", "Sing Along with Terpsichore", "Contract Cartoonists Sought for '89-'90", "Delphi", "Eau de Caesar", "Floral and Faunal Myths: The Heron, The Screech Owl, The Oak and The Linden", "Latine Loqui Libet", "A Vergilio Excitata", "The Roman News", "The Aeneid, Bk. I", "Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York", Comics page, "The Ides of March: Time for Roman Around", "Claudia's Kitchen", "Latin Class Euphoria", "Derivative Temple Drawing", "The Only English Film Ever Made in Latin", "Poemata Brevia", Classified Ads, Carmina Optima et Auctores Eorum, Budding Genius quiz, "Vocational Placements" puzzle, "Children's Books" puzzle, "Televisionis Spectacula" puzzle, "Labyrinth" puzzle, "A Slave's Quest" puzzle, "Deponent Verbs" puzzle, answer key for teachers.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

100th issue! Pompeiiana XV.4, December 1988


Welcome to the 100th issue of Pompeiiana!

Content: "Grus Grata", "The Roman Saturnalia", "12th National Chariathon provides a Glorious End to a Grand Tradition", "Poets on Parade", "Musae Romanae" poem, "A Deponent Ditty", "What Do You Mean You Can't Spell?", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Soccer No New Game", "I Guess You Had to Be There", "Latin Lives On (ad infinitum), "Io! Saturnalia! No, Happy New Year! No, Merry Christmas!", "Myths in Art: The Rape of Europa", "Sing Along with Terpsichore", "He Wrote the Book on Saturnalia", "Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli", "On the High Seas with Julius Caesar", "Floral and Faunal Myths: The Partridge, The Dove, and the Narcissus", "Boadicea: An Ode", "Homer Lives and his name is Frank F. Fowle, III", "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston", Comics page, "Shooting for the Gold", "Publishers Finally Reaching Out to Classicists", "Your Main Clue to Remembering a Word is its Root", "Claudia's Kitchen", Classified Ads, "Carmina Optima et Auctores Eorum", "Labyrinth" puzzles, "Picturae Moventes" puzzle, "Soul Search" puzzle, Christmas tree crossword puzzle, Budding Genius quiz, reading comprension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Pompeiiana XIV.2, October 1987


Content: "Malus: Revenietne Michael Iacobfilius in Apicem?", "Discovering Roman Britain: Bath", "What to See and Do in Rome this Month", "M.I.T. Plans Re-enactment of the Flight of Daedalus", "Fabula Holloweena", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Missouri 5th Graders 'Lovin' that Latin'", "A Note on the Etruscans", "Esoteric Myths of Greece & Rome: Erysichthon", "A Pius Aeneas Poem for the October Ides", "Let's Put on a Play, Magistra", "Dead Languages can Teach Much of Modern Living", "Claudia's Kitchen", Classified Ads, Carmina Optima et Auctores Eorum, "Marcus Tullius Cicero" crossword puzzle, "Sing Along with Phoebus", "Mythological Post Office Boxes", "A-Maze-Ing Puzzles", "An Autumn Amble through the Arboretum" puzzle, "Latin Magic" puzzle, "Italian Musical Terms are Easy to Understand" puzzle, Buding Genius quiz, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Pompeiiana I.4, April 1975



This issue's contents include: "Travel to Rome with Pompeiiana", "Fidem meam obligo vixillo Civitatium Americae Foederatarum . . .", "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis", another "Uva Grubbea" comic and story, "CAMWS Welcomes Pompeiiana", student catapult photos, "Values Clarification in the Persepctive of a Classical Education".

Friday, February 13, 2009

Pompeiiana I.2, December 1974


Issue 2 of Pompeiiana features another celebrity appearance, this time in print via a letter to Ann Landers (and Ms. Landers' reply). Other content includes:

"Augmenting Reading Skills Through Language Learning Transfer", "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis!", "Nox Ante Christi Missam", "Sanctus Nikolas Vivit!" (Yes, Virginia...), "Comments on Some Current Vocabulary Research", "The Roman Times" (ancient newspaper collage), adverts from Pompeiiana, Inc., (including the 16mm color movie of Catapults in Action).