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Quotations to Spur Discussion
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers takes great pride in serving the
needs of Latin and Greek teachers and their students. Providing
teachers a variety of pedagogical materials led to the development
of the Roman Calendar with its daily quotations from the
“wisdom of the ancients.”
This year each month’s image is a chapter title page from Latin for
the New Millennium, Levels 1 and 2, Second Edition. Each chapter title
page includes a significant quotation that connects to the Latin reading,
a Memorābile Dictū, from the ancients. Students are encouraged to
discuss the famous saying Latīnē aut Anglīcē.
These Memorābile Dictū famous quotations readily stimulate classroom
discussion and student exploration:
• Ask students to guess the context of the quotation. Use
the quote to begin class discussions about connections
to history, culture, or customs in ancient Rome or early
modern Europe.
• Ask students to jot down their personal response to the
quotation and to prepare examples from their personal
experience that led to their response. Have students share
in small groups or to the full class.
• Have students make a drawing or a cartoon strip to
illustrate the quotation.
• Ask students to connect the quotation to works they have
read in Latin class or to works of literature they have read
for pleasure or school.
• Assign creative writing projects where students try to
emulate the author’s voice in 5–10 lines.
B-C’s tradition of listening to teachers, enlisting their input, and
learning of their needs has regularly led us to develop new materials.
Teachers’ desire for a Latin series that fused the traditional grammar
approach with the reading method led our late founder Ladislaus J.
Bolchazy, PhD, to commission renowned Latin language educators
and living Latin enthusiasts Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg to
author Latin for the New Millennium. Initially, the LNM series was intended
to have just two levels. Soon, however, teachers clamored for a
Level 3 and Helena Dettmer and LeaAnn Osburn developed Latin for
the New Millennium, Level 3.
Again, heeding LNM users, we are developing a second edition of
LNM 1 and 2 coming spring 2017. Key new features, based on teacher
suggestions, include an enhanced focus on derivatives and additional
exercises that provide reinforcement and laddering activities. We’ve
added Latin readings from the female polymaths Hildegard von Bingen
and Anna Maria van Schurman to the LNM 2 workbook.
A reproducible worksheet (see the inside back cover) contains suggested
questions for students designed to reinforce derivatives using
the Memorābile Dictū quotations. The worksheet can also be downloaded
from our website at http://www.bolchazy.com.phtemp.com/
pdf/derivatives.pdf. Students are encouraged to tweet their answers
(@BCPublishers) to the question about each month’s featured quotation.
Tweet by the 25th for a chance to win five of our buttons that
feature “Sayings of the Ancients”; we will announce the winner along
with our answer at the beginning of the following month. Do check
your school administration’s relevant internet and social media policies
first. The image sources, as well as their location in LNM, can be
found opposite the worksheet.