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If you are only reading stuff for school, then aren't you a bore.
There's been a survey on the various Latin lists about favorite poets and poems and why, and 98% have been clearly poems that these people teach in class.
Daedalus and Icarus--oh please, that's your favorite? I like the piece myself, but there's so much out there, so much passion and beauty we can't teach in our curriculum--so does that mean we don't read it?
Amores 1.5 will always be a favorite of mine. I'm awfully fond of Martial. Perhaps this means my mind is always in the gutter, or hoping more for a FEL TEMP REPARATIO (that's a coin inscription). ha. Maybe it's a midlife crisis thing. I don't know.
I'm reading Vives right now for a paper I'm writing. I'll eventually post a link to the paper here, I'm sure. It's just about playing cards which I've discussed before. Sometimes I read Martial. Sometimes I reach for whatever book I've just received for review, though that doesn't happen much any more.
My point: if you are a Latin teacher who doesn't read outside what you teach, how can you possibly model being a life-long learner? HOW??? Or do you think that just the benefits of improved grammar and vocab is enough for your students in the end? After all, it's a payoff that lasts a lifetime.
Spanish and French teachers have students that use their languages to travel and explore the world. Some will continue into careers using the language. Some will only use it on vacation. Some might pick up the occasional newspaper or novel in that language.
Will our students only think of us when they use whom correctly? If that's not what you want, but if you never read anything in Latin other than what you teach, you're not setting much of an example are you.
Maybe you need to work on your own reading skills. I know I always do. There is always so much more to read and do. If only I had time enough to do all that I think about with Latin. But right now I need to get out of here to go vote. It's election day.
There's been a survey on the various Latin lists about favorite poets and poems and why, and 98% have been clearly poems that these people teach in class.
Daedalus and Icarus--oh please, that's your favorite? I like the piece myself, but there's so much out there, so much passion and beauty we can't teach in our curriculum--so does that mean we don't read it?
Amores 1.5 will always be a favorite of mine. I'm awfully fond of Martial. Perhaps this means my mind is always in the gutter, or hoping more for a FEL TEMP REPARATIO (that's a coin inscription). ha. Maybe it's a midlife crisis thing. I don't know.
I'm reading Vives right now for a paper I'm writing. I'll eventually post a link to the paper here, I'm sure. It's just about playing cards which I've discussed before. Sometimes I read Martial. Sometimes I reach for whatever book I've just received for review, though that doesn't happen much any more.
My point: if you are a Latin teacher who doesn't read outside what you teach, how can you possibly model being a life-long learner? HOW??? Or do you think that just the benefits of improved grammar and vocab is enough for your students in the end? After all, it's a payoff that lasts a lifetime.
Spanish and French teachers have students that use their languages to travel and explore the world. Some will continue into careers using the language. Some will only use it on vacation. Some might pick up the occasional newspaper or novel in that language.
Will our students only think of us when they use whom correctly? If that's not what you want, but if you never read anything in Latin other than what you teach, you're not setting much of an example are you.
Maybe you need to work on your own reading skills. I know I always do. There is always so much more to read and do. If only I had time enough to do all that I think about with Latin. But right now I need to get out of here to go vote. It's election day.
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