CANE 2012
106th Annual Meeting
March 16–17
St. Sebastian’s school
needham, massachusetts
CEU Professional Development Sessions
Session #CEU Credit Available / CANE Annual Meeting
CEU Professional Development Session / Day, Time and Room
Ia
.1 CEU / Latin for the New Millennium 3: A New Option for Latin 3
Presenter: Donald Sprague
Kennedy-KingCollege / Friday, March 16
9:00–10:15 AM
McCulloch Room
Ib
.1 CEU / Tabula Callida: Why You Need a SMARTBoard in Your Classroom
Presenter: Ashley Zahn
WoodstockUnionHigh School / Friday, March 16
9:00–10:15 AM
Room 204
IIa
.1 CEU / Classics for All
Presenter: James Pezzulo
Classical Magnet School / Friday, March 16
10:30–11:45AM
McCulloch Room
IIb
.1 CEU / Web 2.0 Tools in the Latin Classroom
Presenter: Catherine Wickham
Deer Path Middle School East / Friday, March 16
10:30–11:45 AM
Room 204
IIIa
.1 CEU / Who Knew Speaking Latin Wasn’t Just Reciting Sentences?
Presenters: TJ Howell, Emily Lewis
BelchertownHigh School, Advanced Math and ScienceAcademy / Friday, March 16
1:30–2:45 PM
McCulloch Room
IIIb
.1 CEU / Interactive White Board Activities for the Beginner Latin Classroom
Presenter: Klara Sands
WaylandMiddle School / Friday, March 16
1:30–2:45 PM
Room 204
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.1 CEU / CARD-tamen: Designing and Utilizing Meaningful Games in the Classroom
Presenter: Kevin Ballestrini
Norwich Free Academy / Friday, March 16
3:00–4:15 PM
Room 204
RG
.1 CEU / Reading Greek
Moderator: Nina Barclay
Norwich Free Academy / Friday, March 16
4:30–5:30 PM
Room 214
RL
.1 CEU / Reading Latin
Moderator: Brian Walsh
University of Vermont / Friday, March 16
4:30–5:30PM
Room 204
V
.1 CEU / Reading and Teaching Caesar’s Prose
Presenter: David Perry
RyeHigh School / Saturday, March 17
8:45–19:00 AM
McCulloch Room
VI
.1 CEU / Writing Fighting: Battle Narratives in Caesar and Vergil, One Approach to the New AP Latin Syllabus
Presenters: Cynthia Damon, Stefan Cressotti
University of Pennsylvania, St. Sebastian’s School / Saturday, March 17
10:15–11:15 AM
McCulloch Room
VII
.1 CEU / Making Caesar Come Alive: Experiencing Details of Roman Life
Presenter: Lydia Fassett
CANEPress / Saturday, March 17
12:45–1:45 PM
McCulloch Room
VIII
.1 CEU / It’s All Based on the Text
Presenter: Ruth Breindel
MosesBrownSchool / Saturday, March 17
2:00–3:00PM
McCulloch Room
Teachers attending professional development sessions at the Annual Meeting are eligible to receive Connecticut Continuing Education Units for every contact hour of workshop participation. CEUs are not available for attendance at paper sessions. In order to earn CEU credits, participants must attend the full hour of the workshop session and must complete evaluation forms provided at the session.See the presenters at each session listed below for CEU evaluation forms. Contact Stephany Pascetta, CANE CEU Coordinator, with any questions ().
Workshop Descriptions
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Friday Morning, March 16, 2012
Ia Latin for the New Millennium 3: A New Option for Latin 3
Presenter: Donald Sprague, Kennedy-KingCollege
Friday, March 16, 9:00–10:15AM, McCulloch Room(.1 CEU credit available)
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A preview of the new Latin for the New Millennium, Level 3, debuting at ACL 2012. The presentation will provide a overview of the text's pedagogy, which adapts materials from Bolchazy-Carducci’s popular Legamus series, Workbook series, and author texts.As the lead editor for this new textbook, the speaker will provide insights into the process of assembling such a text.
Ib Tabula Callida: Why You Need a SMARTBoard in Your Classroom
Presenter: Ashley Zahn, WoodstockUnionHigh School
Friday, March 16, 9:00–10:15 AM, Room 204(.1 CEU credit available)
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SMARTBoards and the SMART Notebook Software give teachers the ability to create engaging, student centered activities appropriate for students of the digital age. This workshop will show teachers who already have SMARTBoards new activities and inform teachers who do not have SMARTBoards about the technology so they can effectively lobby for SMARTBoards in their own classrooms.
IIa Classics For All
Presenter: James Pezzulo, Classical Magnet School
Friday, March 16, 10:30–11:45AM, McCulloch Room(.1 CEU credit available)
This workshop will begin with a short didatic presentation on the challenges of Latin instruction in a school where all students are required to take Latin every year. It will introduce participants to the Paideia philosophy of education. This will be followed by a discussion on the nature and emphasis in Latin instruction in order to clarify the purpose of teaching Latin. The workshop will conclude with particiapants taking part in a Paideia seminar. Participants will come away with an appreciation of a methodology that uses Latin language instruction to encourage students to think deeply about ideas and values. This workshop is intended for Latin teachers in grades 6 to 12.
IIb Web 2.0 Tools in the Latin Classroom
Presenter: Catherine Wickham, DeerPathMiddle School East
Friday, March 16, 10:30–11:45 AM, Room 204(.1 CEU credit available)
Latin teachers at every level will explore free, online tech tools that can enrich the educational environment.Tools may include Glogster, Edmodo, Animoto, VoiceThread, Kid Blogs, Toondoo, Class Dojo, TypeWith Me, Wikispaces and Google Docs, et al. There will be discussion of the challenges for teachers already working or about to work in a one-to-one environment (where all of the students use personal computing devices). Teachers will be asked to share their own thoughts and ideas for how to use these tech tools in a classroom where access to technology is limited. Written instructions and demonstrations of these tools, as well as example projects and activities, will be provided.Participants are encouraged to bring a personal computing device (laptop, net book, ipad, smartphone) in order to have the opportunity to play with the Web 2.0 tools in a guided environment.
Friday Afternoon, March 16, 2012
IIIaWho Knew Speaking Latin Wasn’t Just Reciting Sentences?
Presenters: TJ Howell,BelchertownHigh School, and Emily Lewis, Advanced Math and ScienceAcademy
Friday, March 16, 1:30–2:45PM, McCulloch Room(.1 CEU credit available)
They're back from the Latin hinterlands (i.e. West Virginia's Rusticatio) with a whole new bag of techniques to make speaking Latin non modo facilius sed etiam iucundius. It doesn't matter whether you came last year, are a master of loquens-fu, or somebody whose toes are nervously contemplating the raging swells of the Tiber—you're sure to find something you can use in your class right away!
IIIbInteractive White Board Activities for the Beginner Latin Classroom
Presenter: Klara Sands, WaylandMiddle School
Friday, March 16, 1:30–2:45PM, Room 204(.1 CEU credit available)
This presentation will make the Interactive Board accessible to the language teacher and student. Topics will incluse step-by-step instructions on how to get started, easy ways to use the board, and games to learn how the student feels. Attendees will participate in an introductory, group game, Corbula Pila; mid-lesson, individual work leading peers at the Board with translation practice; and an end-of-the-unit, review game, Chariot Races. Questions, sharing, and discussion will be encouraged. Participants will walk away with “how-to” handouts, sample games posted on the ACTFL website, and enough experience to try the new technology.
IVCARD-tamen: Designing and Utilizing Meaningful Games in the Classroom
Presenter: Kevin Ballestrini, Norwich Free Academy
Friday, March 16, 3:00–4:15PM, Room 204(.1 CEU credit available)
In this workshop, participants will learnhow to create game rulesets that map exactly 1:1 with learning objectives, specifically in a classics classroom. The popular card game CARD-tamen Romewill be an example of such rulesets. There will be a demonstration of the game with discussion of how the learning objectives are being met by participants.After the CARD-tamen walk-through, participants will collaboratively create their own rule variants. If time permits, participants will be able to play test their games in the session.The intended audience for this workshop is primarily secondary school teachers.
RGReading Greek
Moderator: Nina Barclay, Norwich Free Academy
Friday, March 16, 4:30–5:30 PM, Room 214(.1 CEU credit available)
A bit of Plato, a bit of Homer, a bit of Herodotus. No preparation ahead of time, just the fun and practice of reading and listening to each other read Greek.
RLReading Latin
Moderator: Brian Walsh, University of Vermont
Friday, March 16,4:30–5:30 PM, Room 204(.1 CEU credit available)
‘Sleeping in Spondees, Dreaming in Dactyls’This workshop focuses on the poetic powers—linguistic, figurative and metrical—employed in elevating sleep and dream episodes in Latin epic, principally in Lucretius (Bk. 4) and Vergil, though abundant comparative material will further enrich our considerations. Participation (reading, questions, commentary, etc.) is strongly encouraged throughout this collaborative workshop!
Saturday Morning, March 17, 2012
VReading and Teaching in Caesar’s Prose
Presenter: David Perry, RyeHigh School
Saturday, March 17, 8:45–10:00AM, McCulloch Room(.1 CEU credit available)
This workshop is designed to help teachers prepare for the addition of Caesar as a required AP Latin author, beginning in September 2012. It is directed at those who have little or no experience reading Caesar in Latin. Typical features of Caesar’s style will be examined and the presenter will provide suggestions for those who wish to work on Caesar between now and next fall in order to become comfortable with the new AP requirements. The second half of the workshop addresses general issues of teaching students to become more adept at reading Latin prose, which presents somewhat different issues than does the poetry with which many AP teachers are familiar. The presenter will suggest a number of techniques to employ during the year or two preceding AP Latin, as well as during the AP year, to help students deal more easily with the writings of Caesar and other prose authors. A list of resources for further study will be provided.
VIWriting Fighting: Battle Narratives in Caesar and Vergil, One Approach to the New AP Latin Syllabus
Presenters: Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania and Stefan Cressotti, St. Sebastian’s School
Saturday, March 17, 10:15–11:15 AM, McCulloch Room(.1 CEU credit available)
Dicam horrida bella, dicam acies: so Vergil announces a major theme of the second half of the Aeneid (7.41-42). In the new AP syllabus this portion of the epic receives even less attention than it did before: the duels between Pallas and Turnus (10.420-509) and Turnus and Aeneas (12.887-952), together with their themes of valor, mortality, loss, victory, sacrifice, and rage, are no longer among the lines assigned for reading in Latin. Our aim in this workshop is to explore ways in which the new material from Caesar’s bella and Caesar’s acies can contribute to the students’ understanding of these very Roman themes, as well as to trace the fault lines between these two authors on the nature and meaning of war.
Saturday Afternoon, March 17, 2012
VIMaking Caesar Come Alive: Experiencing Details of Roman Life
Presenter: Lydia Fassett, CANEPress
Saturday, March 17, 12:45–1:45 PM, McCulloch Room(.1 CEU credit available)
Do you want to make Caesar come alive for your students? This workshop will show how to incorporate details of the lives of Roman soldiers and camp followers into the classroom through experiential learning, so that your students can eat, dress, and drill like the Romans did. There will be a special emphasis on food, clothing, and Roman army drill.You will also receive information on where to find objects and other resources to make the ancient world tangible.
VIIIIt’s All Based on the Text
Presenter: Ruth Breindel, MosesBrownSchool
Saturday, March 17, 2:00–3:00 PM, McCulloch Room(.1 CEU credit available)
This interactive workshop will be based on the text of Caesar on the new AP curriculum. We will supply sample pages from the CANEPress Caesar text, which will include text and notes, questions for discussion in the classroom, and ancillary materials (maps, history, etc.). We will translate some portions together, paying attention to both comprehension/content and grammatical clauses, to get a feel for the new sections, and discuss how to handle this in the classroom.
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