"I would especially encourage fellow teachers to come along who might have an interest in using more spoken Latin in the classroom so that ideas can be exchanged."   more »

The direct link to recent OCR A level Latin papers is here.   more »

It's been brought to my attention that under the new specification the set books for AS and A2 are different.   more »

There's a CD with Latin grammar songs advertised here. An article about a teacher who uses songs in his teaching is here.   more »

Those recordings of the 2009-2010 set texts are now on line here.   more »

his is the Peter O'Toole mini-series from 1981.   more »

Our school has justy been awarded specialist language college status and I wondered if any fellow Classicists out there had experience of teaching classics in such an establishment and was willing to share ideas ?   more »

The CD of 2008-9 Latin verse prescriptions for the OCR exams read by ArLT members is now ready.   more »

If you haven't explored the JACT website recently, you may not have found a page of Latin resources.   more »

Our President is to meet OCR next week to discuss GCSE changes. She sends this message:   more »

Agamemnon essay titles, Medea questions, Hippolytus questions, Tacitus test, Themes in the Odyssey (7 pages), introduction to epic (3 pages), notes to Oedipus Tyrannus (24 pages), Odyssey worksheets with answers (36 pages), intro and notes to OT (11 pages) - these have all been submitted to the OCR Classics Community pages this week.   more »

Visitors to the For Teachers section of the ArLT website will find, under GCSE Classical Civilisation, a page for each topic in the syllabus, subdivided into sub-topics.   more »

Monica Swinburne made available at the ArLT Cambridge Summer School (INSET) her resources for teaching Aeneid 12, on the A level syllabus for the next two years. She has now kindly offered these resources for the Teachers' Section of the ArLT website.   more »

The core of the ArLT songbook was the book of songs by our founder, Rouse, which he wrote for his pupils to help them remember their Latin and Greek. Those songs were written for those days. I think we need similar songs for today.   more »

Textbooks usually show a photo of those infamous slave chains, and artists' impressions of slaves in Roman Britain. Now you can add pictures ...   more »

Google Docs is designed so that many people can share in creating and editing each document. It strikes me as a good tool for sharing teaching materials, with each teacher able to add to and improve the document.   more »

Common sense, really, like not staring at the sun, but I pass on this warning from the BBC:   more »

Head teachers say they are pleased that coursework will not be lost altogether and will remain in the form of extended work done in school.   more »

Following his recent message, Kris Waite has kindly given us his list of poetical words likely to come up in A2 Latin unseens.   more »

Atriades has noted a vocab learning tool on the Perseus site, which might go some way to helping with the compilation of a list as requested in yesterday's post.   more »

I am trying to put together a list of commonly used poetical vocabulary for the A2 examination   more »

This lad never ceases to amaze me! I post a piece arising from the JCT article on ICT in the Classical classroom, pointing out the need for more electronic material for teachers and students, and a couple of days later Will Griffiths informs me that they've already done it. Here's his email:   more »

Robin Hilliard has kindly provided two Lit 3 exams for Tacitus Annals 1 and one for Ovid Amores.   more »

Robert West has kindly shared his notes on the A level text from Tacitus Annals book 1.   more »

Veni Vidi Vici In a dialogue attacking divination and astrology, Cicero tells the following story: when Marcus Crassus was about to set out on the expedition to Parthia (which was to end in his and his army's destruction), a man on the quayside was selling figs from Caunus (south Turkey) and therefore shouting Cauneas ('cow-nay-arse')!   more »

David Swift's notes from his option group on the Amores at the ArLT Refresher Day are now being put on line   more »

This heartfelt protest against boring Latin classes was sent to me by email, and I pass it on willingly. Paragraph 4, with its suggestion that a teacher can tell whether a student understands a Latin passage simply by listening to him or her reading it aloud, is exactly what Rouse writes in his book Latin on the Direct Method.   more »

I came, I saw, I did Sudoku. Pupils in their first year of studying Latin can’t easily take a school trip to soak up the language and culture. But there are ways of redressing the balance – and one might be Latin puzzles.   more »

William Linney has emailed ArLT about a book he has written to help home-schoolers learn Latin. He has an extensive website at http://www.gettingstartedwithlatin.com/ where you can read sample pages.   more »

There are pages of different kinds of teaching aids: pictures, text, games, software, vocab, films, PowerPoint, and audio.   more »

The purpose of this workshop is to explore the benefits to be derived from the active use of Latin in the teaching of Latin.   more »

BOXES full of Roman artifacts are available from The Beacon, to be loaned to schools.   more »