I’m not going to say latin is boring, but most high school kids really don’t give a fuck about it. Sounds like this teacher is absolutely engaging the class and I appreciate the heck out of that.
I had 3 different Latin teachers. Only one of them was even close to be interested in making his classes more engaging
But the guy was also a massive nerd who apparently went to conventions/meetups where only Latin was allowed to be spoken. And I always suspected he was old enough to have been alive when it was the lingua franca
Most teachers just went through the books, told us about some grammar rules and gave us a page of text to translate as homework
I had a fucking rad Latin teacher. Everything was engaging, stories about words and history and crazy facts. She showed Life of Brian solely for the Romanes eunt domus scene and stood in front of the TV for the full frontal nudity. It was the 90s man.
We had a guy named Scott in our class when our textbook was focusing on the Romans in the British isles, so we called him Caldonii to tease her because she insisted that he was a singular Scott and not a plural.
She took us to high school Latin competitions and we placed pretty well for the state.
Compared to a lot of other stuff that happened at school, learning Latin was fun. Especially because for a while we had the best teacher I ever had in that subject.
I’m not going to say latin is boring, but most high school kids really don’t give a fuck about it. Sounds like this teacher is absolutely engaging the class and I appreciate the heck out of that.
I had 3 different Latin teachers. Only one of them was even close to be interested in making his classes more engaging
But the guy was also a massive nerd who apparently went to conventions/meetups where only Latin was allowed to be spoken. And I always suspected he was old enough to have been alive when it was the lingua franca
Most teachers just went through the books, told us about some grammar rules and gave us a page of text to translate as homework
I had a fucking rad Latin teacher. Everything was engaging, stories about words and history and crazy facts. She showed Life of Brian solely for the Romanes eunt domus scene and stood in front of the TV for the full frontal nudity. It was the 90s man.
We had a guy named Scott in our class when our textbook was focusing on the Romans in the British isles, so we called him Caldonii to tease her because she insisted that he was a singular Scott and not a plural.
She took us to high school Latin competitions and we placed pretty well for the state.
I think you mean the Romani ite domum scene
Compared to a lot of other stuff that happened at school, learning Latin was fun. Especially because for a while we had the best teacher I ever had in that subject.
I took latin in high school and was devastated when my teacher retired and I didn’t get a second year