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Cato the Elder at the office

@duxfeminafacti9 I don’t color code but I suggest advanced students annotate using NOM - single underline ACC - double underline VERB - circle They put a triangle around conjunctions and bracket off clauses to help see nesting. I find this helps them organize what is essential versus added

So when I teach languages, I assign every case a color so I can color-code annotations for my students. I know others do this and now I'm curious what colors each case are to you all. Mine: Nom: purple Gen: orange/red Dat: (light) green (light for Latin) Acc: blue Abl: green

Using Goethe's travel writings as inspiration, Lafayette College's Markus Dubischar lays out the outline of, readings for, and reflections on teaching "Journey to Rome", a course abroad that offers high-impact learning to students of many disciplines. Classical Outlook, 100.3.

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📣 REMINDER: Teaching Classical Studies Across Curricula — a Zoom roundtable by The Classical Outlook, ACL, & SCS 🏛️ 📅 Wed, Oct 22, 2025 | 🕢 7:30 PM ET All welcome! Register 👉 upenn.zoom.us/meeting/regist… K–12 & college educators share cross-disciplinary classics teaching ideas!

Ric Rader's essay on the difficulties and joys of teaching "An Honors-Level Course in Ancient Greek at an Independent School" features in CO 100.2, sharing successes and challenges of changing "priorities [to] shift away from grammar acquisition."

In The Classical Outlook 100.2, "Strategies of a Successful Elementary Latin Program at a Large State University," Christine Albright shares the victories and challenges in flipping and hybridizing classes to increase enrollment and retention in her university's program.

Roman numeral puns are great and I for one will continue to make them

Interested in bringing your Latin students to material culture, or vice versa? AnnMarie Patterson's "Hands-On Latin: Museums, Manuscripts, and In-Class Material Culture for First-Year Latin Students" in The Classical Outlook 100.2 shares how to make these experiences happen.

John Ryan's essay "A Morphophonological Approach to Teaching Latin" (published in CO 100.2) provides an alternative method of teaching morphology deductively, focused on increasing precision, grammatical literacy, and close reading.

At this year’s National Book Awards, the classicist, poet, and professor Anne Carson shared with us the author she recommends to everyone and the best writing advice she’s given.

Metacognition, schemata, dual encoding, and more in Classical Outlook 100.2! Read about second language acquisition and retention research in Andrea Stehle's essay "How the Adolescent Brain Works and What Latin TeachersCan Do To Facilitate Learning."

To commemorate The Classical Outlook's 100th volume, each issue features short pieces from editorial board members. In issue 100.2, read "Classical Outlooks, the CAPN Archive, and Histories of Women in the Study and Teaching of Greek and Roman Classics" by Catherine Connors.

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This fish plate is obviously delightful, but look in the centre and tell me truthfully: have you ever seen a more peeved dolphin? Info card below. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The second essay in CO 100.1, "Teaching (Classics with) Generosity, Or Making Medeas Medea" (pp.6-17) outlines a Brown University graduate seminar with descriptions of its reading practices, listening strategies, and discussion around the past, present, and future of Classics